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Tesco Personal Finance plc, trading as Tesco Bank, is a British retail bank which was formed in July 1997 (as Tesco Personal Finance). The bank was formed as part of a 50:50 joint venture between The Royal Bank of Scotland and Tesco , the largest supermarket in the United Kingdom, employing 2,800 people.
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Tesco has operated on the Internet since 1994 and started an online shopping service named 'Tesco Direct' in 1997. Concerned with poor web response times (in 1996, broadband was virtually unknown in the United Kingdom), Tesco offered a CDROM-based off-line ordering program which would connect only to download stock lists and send orders.
Tesco plc (/ ˈ t ɛ s. k oʊ /) is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. [8] The company was founded by Jack Cohen in Hackney, London, in 1919.
The retailer said the deal will kick off a 10-year partnership with the finance giant.
Higgins left in 1997 for the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he became chief executive of Retail Banking and was involved in setting up Tesco Personal Finance. He was part of the team (alongside Fred Goodwin and George Mathewson) that acquired and integrated NatWest in 2000. At the time of his departure from RBS at the end of 2005 he was chief ...
The largest of the "Big 4" banks in every relevant metric is HSBC Holding (the HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) which, despite its name, is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, with historical links to business in East Asia.