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Alliance & Leicester plc was a British bank and former building society, formed by the merger in 1985 of the Alliance Building Society and the Leicester Building Society. The business demutualised in the middle of 1997, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange. It was listed in the FTSE 250 Index, and had been listed in the FTSE 100 ...
Alliance & Leicester International Limited (ALIL) was the international banking subsidiary of Alliance & Leicester, which was subsequently bought by the Santander Group in October 2008. The bank offered a range of international savings accounts primarily to Isle of Man residents and British expatriates, but also to non domiciles living in the ...
Santander UK plc (UK: / ˌsæntənˈdɛər, - tæn -/, US: / ˌsɑːntɑːnˈdɛər /) [3] is a British bank, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group. Santander UK plc manages its affairs autonomously, with its own local management team, responsible solely for its performance. Santander UK is one of the leading personal financial services ...
Bradford & Bingley International (BBI) was the international banking subsidiary of Bradford & Bingley, which was itself acquired by the Santander Group in 2008. On 5 August 2011, the business of BBI was transferred to Alliance & Leicester International (ALIL), also a subsidiary of Santander, ahead of the expiry of a trademark licence on the ...
The number of independent banks shrank further during 2008: Northern Rock was nationalised by the UK Government (and is now owned by Virgin Money), followed by Bradford & Bingley; Alliance & Leicester was acquired by Santander, who merged it into Santander UK.
The new Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers in Alliance, O., features an outdoor patio and a two-lane drive-through system. The grand opening on June 25, 2024, kept the drive-through busy all day.
On 11 January 2010, the combined business of Abbey and the Bradford & Bingley branch network was renamed Santander UK, and all branches were rebranded at a cost of £12 million. [22] Alliance & Leicester was rebranded at the end of November 2010. [23] On 25 January 2010, the European Commission approved the state aid given to the bank. [24]
The purchase of Alliance & Leicester by Santander had been agreed earlier that month. [35] Abbey migrated all customer accounts to the Partenon computer software used by Santander in June 2008. [36] On 27 October 2008, Abbey reached an agreement to sell Porterbrook to a consortium of Deutsche Bank, Lloyds TSB and Antin Infrastructure Partners. [37]