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• Personal Finance: What would make you switch your bank?

  - 2002-02-02

  Current accounts may seem a bane, especially if you go into the red, but nowadays there is more to this basic service than immediately meets the eye. Perks range from plastic cards and travel cover to shopping discounts and preferential mortgages. Always try to avoid charges or...

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• Britain's Abbey National May Launch Bid for NatWest.

  - 1999-10-07

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 5 -- Abbey National has fuelled speculation that it is poised to launch a counterbid for NatWest by beefing up its team of financial advisers. Abbey has appointed Lehman Brothers International Europe to stand alongside its...

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• NatWest said to be wooing Abbey National once more

  - 1997-06-06

  Are Abbey National and National Westminster Bank talking mergers again? Shares of the two financial giants edged ahead as some speculators were prepared to bank on what would be Britain's largest financial get- together taking place. The stock market, of course, never likes to see a good story...

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• At big banks, it's no big deal

  - 1997-01-05

  Britain's high-street banks consistently lag behind building societies in most of the financial services they provide, according to a survey by Which? magazine last week. Building societies generally pay better interest rates, offer cheaper mortgages and charge less for overdrafts than their banking counterparts. But the big societies...

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