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Postal giro, retail banking National Girobank was a British public sector financial institution run by the General Post Office that opened for business in October 1968. [ 1 ] It was initially called National Giro [ 2 ] [ 3 ] then National Girobank and finally Girobank plc , before being absorbed into Alliance & Leicester in 2003.
In the postal giro model, the paying party sends a request to pay the payee (called a giro transfer) to the giro centre, which verifies that the funds are available, debits the payer's accounts by the amount requested, and credits that amount to the payee's account. The giro centre then sends the giro transfer document to the payee, and an ...
Post Office Savings Bank became National Savings Bank in 1969, later renamed National Savings and Investments (NS&I), an agency of HM Treasury. While continuing to offer National Savings services, the (then) General Post Office, created the National Giro in 1968 (privatized as Girobank and acquired by Alliance & Leicester in 1989).
The BF postcode area was introduced in 2012 to provide optional postcodes for British Forces Post Office addresses, for consistency with the layout of other UK addresses. It uses the national non-geographic post town "BFPO" and, as of 2012, the postcode district "BF1". Each BFPO number is assigned an inward code, which are grouped as: 0 ...
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
From January 2008 to April 2010, if you bought shares in companies when A. G. Langbo joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -2.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -17.7 percent return from the S&P 500.
In July 1990 the society acquired Girobank, a major provider of cash handling services to the government and large companies which also offered current accounts from the Post Office. [ 3 ] With other large building societies such as Halifax and Woolwich , Alliance & Leicester decided to float on the London Stock Exchange, generating windfall ...
In Kenya, the World Bank's in-house Inspection Panel found the bank violated its policies by failing to do enough to protect the Sengwer, an indigenous minority group in Kenya's western forests. Over the past decade, the World Bank has regularly failed to enforce its