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www .halifax .co .uk. Halifax (previously known as Halifax Building Society and colloquially known as The Halifax) is a British banking brand operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group . It is named after the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, where it was founded as a building ...
HBOS offices in Lovell Park, Leeds, formerly those of the Leeds Permanent Building Society before its takeover by the Halifax Building Society. HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009.
UK banking brands owned by foreign banks. Allied Irish Bank (GB) and First Trust Bank, owned by AIB Group of the Republic of Ireland. Al Rayan Bank, owned by Masraf Al Rayan of Qatar. Axis Bank UK, owned by Axis Bank of India. Bank of Ceylon (UK), owned by Bank of Ceylon of Sri Lanka.
Halifax Share Dealing is a British online broker, allowing customers to buy and sell shares in UK and international companies across a range of markets.. The firm was set up to manage the 7.5 million Halifax bank customers who were eligible for shares when the company went public in 1997.
Halifax plc and Capital Bank plc transferred their undertakings to Bank of Scotland plc, and although the Halifax brand name was retained, Halifax then began to operate under the latter company's UK banking licence. Capital Bank branding was phased out. The provisions in the Act were implemented on 17 September 2007.
Lloyds Bank is the largest retail bank in Britain, [6] and has an extensive network of branches and ATMs in England and Wales (as well as an arrangement for its customers to be serviced by Bank of Scotland branches in Scotland, Halifax branches in Northern Ireland and vice versa) and offers 24-hour telephone and online banking services.
Intelligent Finance ( IF) is a UK offset bank, a division of Bank of Scotland plc which is part of Lloyds Banking Group. It was established as a division of Halifax plc in 1999 by Jim Spowart, who helped establish other direct financial services firms including Direct Line . Following a reorganisation of the HBOS group, it is now a division of ...
Over the past 40 years (to 2014) the banking system in the UK experienced a 'dramatic shift' with total assets increasing from 100% of GDP to 450%, and it is 'plausible that the UK banking system will continue to grow rapidly', owing to its probable 'comparative advantage' in international banking services, with the pre-eminence of London as a ...