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The Abbey National Building Society was formed in 1944 by the merger of the ... and Santander, the acquisition was formally approved by the courts and Abbey became ...
In 2006, the merged group bought the life business of Abbey National, a transaction of £3.6 billion that brought entry into the FTSE 100. [ 1 ] On 30 May 2007 Resolution announced a strategic partnership with Capita which will result in the transfer of approximately two thousand staff in Customer Services and IT and phased outsourcing of back ...
Royal Bank of Scotland Fortis Grupo Santander: Diversified financial services € 7 × 10 ^ 10: January 1, 2008 (became Subsidiary) Landesbank Sachsen Landesbank Baden-Württemberg: Landesbank € 328,000,000 [6] February 22, 2008: Northern Rock: Government of the United Kingdom: Retail and mortgage bank [7] April 1, 2008: Bear Stearns, New ...
Abbey National, trading as Abbey, had been bought by the Santander Group in July 2004 for £9 billion. Santander purchased Alliance & Leicester in the middle of September 2008, [9] followed by the branches and savings business of Bradford & Bingley, which had been nationalised by HM Government during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. [10]
Cater Allen Private Bank is a private bank operating in the United Kingdom and is a subsidiary of Santander UK.Tracing its history back to a bank founded in Blackburn in 1816, [1] [2] it was independent for 180 years, before being purchased in 1997 by Abbey National. [3]
The Company was founded by Mark Weinberg in 1961 as the Abbey Life Assurance Company. [2] ITT Corporation bought a half interest in the Company in 1964 and in 1970 bought the rest. [ 2 ] It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986. [ 2 ]
Advance is a certified, independent trade union affiliated to the TUC representing workers within the bank Santander UK, the UK subsidiary of Santander Group.The union was formerly known as the Abbey National Group Union (ANGU) before it expanded to include staff of Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley following their acquisitions by Santander.
Following the acquisition of Abbey National plc by Santander he was appointed Chairman of the Santander UK Group Pension Fund from 2005 to 2018. He served as Chairman of the Rural Development Commission, the government agency responsible for the economic and social well-being of the rural areas of England, from 1990 to 1997.