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• Banker, insurance provider Lloyds TSB may soon get takeover bid, analysts say.

  - 2004-12-05

  By Helen Dunne, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 5--Lloyds TSB is holding talks with the Financial Services Authority to calculate how much capital its Scottish Widows life insurance arm needs to satisfy new accounting standards. ...

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• Daily Mail, London, Alex Brummer Column.

  - 2003-09-24

  By Alex Brummer, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 24--The departure of Mike Ross as chief executive of Scottish Widows will come as a surprise to no one except owner Lloyds TSB. When his impending resignation was reported in...

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• Dial M for Money; The financial services sector has long been

  - 2003-03-02

  THE financial services sector has become the last remaining safety net for Scotland's weakening economy. While traditional performers such as heavy engineering have long since fallen from grace, financial services has been viewed as the killer app that will somehow prevent us from reaching economic meltdown. But...

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• Scottish Widows boosts bond team with Burt.

  - 2003-02-17

  Byline: Ben Wright Scottish Widows Investment Partnership SWIP, the investment arm of UK life assurer Scottish Widows, has strengthened its fixed income team with the appointment of Colin Burt to the newly-created position of director for high yield, global bonds and economics.Burt was previously...

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• Performance Varies for Insurers Owned by London's Abbey National.

  - 2002-10-06

  Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 6--One of the life offices causing concern is Abbey National-owned Scottish Mutual, according to adviser Patrick Connolly. He says: "Abbey seems content to bail out this fund for now, but...

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• Personal Finance: QUESTIONS OF CASH - How much is enough to make up

  - 2002-06-22

  QI arranged for Scottish Widows to take pounds 2,652 from my bank account last summer by direct debit to top up my pension fund to the annual pounds 3,400 limit. They wrote to me twice telling me they had done this. But the money never left my account and my...

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• L20,000 for a L10 gift voucher? Agreed!

  - 2001-08-01

  After 500 Abbey National customers were erroneously credited with an average of 20,000 due to a computer error one night, they were offered a 10 Marks and Spencer gift voucher as a reward for handing the money back. Legally, the customers had little choice as it was obvious that the...

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• INVESTMENT: STAKEHOLDER PROVIDERS

  - 2001-03-04

  Abbey National, contact local branch; AXA, 0845 300 3170; B&CE EasyBuild*, 08457 414142; Bank of Scotland, 0131 317 0313; Barclays, 0845 070 0220; Britannic, 0845 305 5559; CIS, 0800 028 2727; Clerical Medical, 0800 779090; Friends Provident, 0800 000085; HSBC, 0845 745 6127; Legal & General, 0800 027 1818; Marks...

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• Inspired move or a #19bn spoiler?; Lloyds TSB's bid for Abbey

  - 2001-02-04

  THE CITY'S VIEW: Teresa Hunter believes Lloyds TSB cannot afford to be anything but serious about its Abbey offer - and that spells bad news for BoS THE Bank of Scotland blew it when its failure to decide who should get which top job prevented it agreeing...

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• Scottish Mutual faces jobs cull if Lloyds wins Abbey

  - 2001-02-04

  FEARS are mounting that Scotland could suffer a massive jobs cull if Lloyds TSB's #19 billion conditional takeover bid for Abbey National is successful as it will lead to three insurance operations based north of the Border being brought together. Abbey National's Scottish Mutual subsidiary employs 2000...

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