Consumers
Factsheet
Banks that used to be building societies
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Contact: Simon Rex Date: 6 Mar 2009 |
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Bradford & Bingley |
floated 4 December 2000. Mortgage book nationalised September 2008. Retail savings transferred to Abbey (Banco Santander) September 2008 |
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Birmingham Midshires |
taken over by Halifax, April 1999. Now a division of Lloyds Banking Group. |
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Northern Rock |
floated 1 October 1997, currently in temporary public ownership. |
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Bristol & West |
taken over by Bank of Ireland, 28 July 1997. Bristol & West transferred its branch network and savings business to Britannia Building Society on 21 September 2005. |
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Woolwich |
floated 7 July 1997, taken over by Barclays Bank in October 2000. Now exists only as a trading name of Barclays. |
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Halifax |
floated 2 June 1997, merged with Bank of Scotland to form HBOS in 2001. In September 2008 Lloyds Bank agreed to take over HBOS. It became part of Lloyds Banking Group on 16 January 2009. |
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Alliance & Leicester |
floated 21 April 1997, acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano in October 2008. |
| National & Provincial |
taken over by Abbey National, 5 August 1996 (ceased trading under this name). |
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Cheltenham & Gloucester |
taken over by Lloyds Bank, 1 August 1995. Now exists only as a trading name of the Lloyds Banking Group. |
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Abbey National
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floated 12 July 1989, acquired by Banco Santander in November 2004.
These institutions are no longer building societies and should not be referred to as such.
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