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Total assets. £21.3 billion (2006) Owner. HBOS plc. Capital House, Handbridge, Chester. Capital Bank plc was a subsidiary bank of the Bank of Scotland and HBOS. Its head offices were located in Chester, England. Its main products were leasing, installment credit, and mortgages. In the late 20th century, it became Chester's largest employer.
The British credit crisis of 1772–1773, also known as the crisis of 1772, or the panic of 1772, was a peacetime financial crisis which originated in London and then spread to Scotland and the Dutch Republic. [1] It has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. [2] New colonies, as Adam Smith observed, had ...
Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution, the seventh largest cooperative financial institution [2] and the largest building society in the world with over 16 million members. [3] Its headquarters are in Swindon, England. Nationwide is made up of around 250 different building societies.
Lloyds Banking Group. Website. www .blackhorse .co .uk. Black Horse Limited is a motor finance company based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in July 2001, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, but its origins can be traced back to 1922. The business should not be confused with Black Horse (originally Beehive and most ...
Products. Banking, insurance, mortgages. Owner. NatWest Group. Website. www .iombank .com. The Isle of Man Bank is a bank in the British Crown dependency of the Isle of Man, providing retail, private and business banking services to the local population. Incorporated in 1865, it has operated as a trading name of RBS International since 2019.
Child's Banking House on Fleet Street beside Temple Bar Gate, 1850. Child & Co. was the third-oldest bank in the world and the oldest bank in the UK, predating the Bank of England by thirty years. Origins. Child & Co. traced its roots to a London goldsmith business in the late 17th century, whose premises were known by the sign of the Marygold.
Banking and insurance, formerly Royal Bank of Scotland Group. NorthLink Ferries. Industrials. Marine transportation. Stromness. 2002. Operator of ferries to the Northern Isles. Park's Motor Group. Consumer services.
The economic history of Scotland charts economic development in the history of Scotland from earliest times, through seven centuries as an independent state and following Union with England, three centuries as a country of the United Kingdom. Before 1700 Scotland was a poor rural area, with few natural resources or advantages, remotely located ...