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• Santander to buy B&B savings as UK govt confirms nationalisation

  - 2008-09-29

  LONDON, AFP — Spain's Santander said Monday it will take over the retail deposits and branches of troubled bank Bradford & Bingley as the British government confirmed that it was nationalising the banking group. B&B's savings business, which represents its best assets, will be sold to the Spanish company,...

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• Evening Standard, London, market report column.

  - 2004-09-02

  By Steve Hawkes, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--Retail tycoon Philip Green broke cover to dismiss speculation he is lining up a bid for Sainsbury's today as shares in the supermarkets giant soared on talk of a potential takeover...

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• Potential for bad news: Sharona Talmor analyses the UK banks' latest results and predicts a mixed year for them. (Global Focus).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2002-04-01

  THE UK BANKS' RESULTS season could best be summarised as a period focused on potential bad news. Firstly we looked at the provisions line; then we moved on to worry about costs and, if that did not disappoint, we fretted about underlying revenue growth. ...

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• You can bank on reaping the rewards of conversion

  - 1999-03-31

  AS MEMBERS of two more building societies are urged by their directors not to force them to face the rigours of a stock market quotation, it is, perhaps, worth looking at the rewards of those who have voted for conversion. So far, five building societies have become mortgage...

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• Virgin on the rude

  - 1995-10-24

  Richard Branson has been forced to drop the current ad campaign for Virgin Direct Peps following complaints from leading banks and building societies. The campaign, devised by the agency Ammirati and Puris Lintas, depicts the Lloyds Bank black horse on its back, National & Provincial's bee in a nosedive, the...

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• Loans: go for the fix

  - 1995-01-29

  After the Halifax, the deluge. Last week, Abbey National and a host of other mortgage lenders announced that they too would raise their variable interest rates. Increases have hovered between Abbey National's, up from 8.09 to 8.34 per cent, and Bradford & Bingley's, which rose from 8.1 to...

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