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In May 2010, Alliance & Leicester was acquired by Grupo Santander and the Alliance & Leicester brand was replaced by Santander UK. The Girobank wording continued in use on some credit slips intended for paying bills, along with the Alliance & Leicester "plus" logo. Some councils were continuing to use the original name "Post Office Giro" in 2011.
Transferring funds from one personal bank account to another typically requires either a physical check or a wire transfer, which may incur a significant fee and require the paying party to visit the bank. In giro systems, credit risk for currency transfers is borne by operators like banks as interbank credit risk, but not by the payer or payee ...
The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company Limited (C&CCC) is a UK membership-based industry body whose 11 members are the UK clearing banks.The company has managed the cheque clearing system in England and Wales since 1985, in all of Great Britain since 1996 when it took over responsibility for managing the Scottish cheque clearing as well, and in the whole of the United Kingdom since the ...
Giro (banking), a direct payment from one bank account to another instigated by the payer; Girobank, a state owned and later privatised financial institution in the UK; GiroBank, a Danish bank (1991–1995) which through several mergers is now part of Danske Bank; name of a bank account with the Dutch Postgiro, later Postbank, now ING
More than 140 billion transactions have been debited or credited to British bank accounts via Bacs since its inception; in 2019, 6.5 billion UK payments, worth £5 trillion, were made. At the end of November 2019, the number of single-day transactions processed by Bacs reached a high of 124 million; a monthly record was set in August 2018, when ...
Electronic funds transfer (EFT) is the transfer of money from one bank account to another, either within a single financial institution or across multiple institutions, via computer-based systems. The funds transfer process generally consists of a series of electronic messages sent between financial institutions directing each to make the debit ...
The slow pace of the expansion of the girocard acceptance network has attracted criticism from authors who have pointed out that, in the UK, the once-dominant Switch/Maestro debit cards were accepted at 571,268 locations in 2001 (one location per 103 inhabitants) and at over 900,000 places in 2005 – "from high street shops to pubs, opticians ...
I&M Bank serves the banking needs of large and small business customers with emphasis on large and medium-sized corporations as well as individuals with emphasis on premium customers [4] I&M also moved to Tier I after takeover of Giro Bank. [5] A simple Edit in 21 October 2024.