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- Santander Shouldn't Completely Kick the Abbey Habit
- Of all the British banks for which a name change would hide their shame, Abbey is not one. Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and even Lloyds are tarnished brands since the state rescued them. Yet it is Abbey, the former UK building society with a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
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- Unisys Helps Abbey Reduce Cost of Computing; Abbey To Benefit from a Scalable Unisys ClearPath Environment, Offering Increased Flexibility to Meet Business Demands
- LONDON -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced that it has successfully implemented a ClearPath Plus mainframe environment for Abbey, one of the UK's largest personal financial services companies. Abbey customers are set to benefit from the company's increased focus on IT. The ClearPath Plus environment is designed to help Abbey...
- Research articles 2005-03-09
- NAB bid to solve trouble in Abbey.
- Oct 08, 2002 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) National Australia Bank NAB may consider the acquisition of British bank Abbey National. Abbey shares rose by five per cent on 8 October 2002 as NAB refused comment on the rumours. This follows the rejection...
- Research articles 2002-10-08
- OUTLOOK: Another kitchen sinker for struggling Abbey
- A NEW logo and a massive write-off. Now why does that seem so familiar? It is only 18 months since Abbey National last changed its logo and look, while the write-offs chalked up over the last three years of crisis at Abbey are so big and numerous, they fair make...
- Research articles 2005-02-26
- Abbey role has McGinn fired up; New sales and marketing director
- AMBROSE McGinn, a former marketeer with packaged goods giants Grand Metropolitan and Unilever, has said he is keen to make his mark on Abbey National's hodgepodge of life and pension businesses. Abbey National employs around 4000 people in Edinburgh and Glasgow in its Scottish Mutual, Scottish Provident,...
- Research articles 2002-08-04
- Holy smoke! Housebuilder may sue bank over use of Abbey name
- ABBEY, A little Anglo-Irish housebuilder, is threatening to sue Abbey National, the bank, over the decision to drop "National" from its trading name. Charles Gallagher, executive chairman at Abbey plc, said Abbey National's new corporate identity - unveiled with fanfare and a pounds 15m advertising campaign on Wednesday - would...
- Research articles 2003-09-26
- Abbey doors opening for BoS takeover
- BANK of Scotland remains very keen on a merger with Abbey National but could turn its attention to other possible deals if anticipated further talks with Abbey do not lead to a satisfactory conclusion. The Edinburgh-based bank hopes to resume talks with Abbey soon to see what...
- Research articles 2000-11-12
- Bank of Scotland resists Abbey's offensive
- ABBEY NATIONAL, the high street bank seeking to take over Bank of Scotland BoS, has launched a charm offensive to try to convince the City that Ian Harley, Abbey's chief executive, should run any combined group. The escalation of the public relations battle came as Lord Tugendhat,...
- Research articles 2000-11-08
- OFT approves Abbey/BoS merger
- THE OFFICE of Fair Trading yesterday cleared the proposed merger between Abbey National and Bank of Scotland. Attention will now switch to the Lloyds TSB request for OFT clearance for its proposed takeover bid for Abbey. The OFT has until 23 February to rule. Abbey chairman Lord Tugendhat yesterday met...
- Research articles 2001-02-06
- Abbey National Treasury Services selects DataSynapse's guaranteed distributed computing technology; First deployment in Abbey National Financial products credit derivatives for risk calculations.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 November 2002-DataSynapse: Abbey National Treasury Services selects DataSynapse's guaranteed distributed computing technology; First deployment in Abbey National Financial products credit derivatives for risk calculations C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11112002 After reviewing alternative vendor offerings and...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
- Abbey National selects Avellino Discovery to help benchmark its data quality; Abbey National chooses Avellino Discovery to audit and benchmark its data quality for improved customer profiling; Avellino Discovery enables Abbey National to analyse millions
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 March 2002-AVELLINO: Abbey National selects Avellino Discovery to help benchmark its data quality; Abbey National chooses Avellino Discovery to audit and benchmark its data quality for improved customer profiling; Avellino Discovery enables Abbey National to analyse millions of records in less...
- Research articles 2002-03-12
- Abbey National to form joint venture with Electronic Data Systems Ltd for mortgage and personal loan post-sales servicing.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 February 2001-ABBEY NATIONAL: Abbey National to form joint venture with Electronic Data Systems Ltd for mortgage and personal loan post-sales servicing C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13022001 London -- Abbey National plc ("Abbey National") has reached agreement ...
- Research articles 2001-02-13
- Abbey faces uncertain future.(United Kingdom mortgage lender Abbey National)(Brief Article)
- The future of UK mortgage lender Abbey National remains in the balance following the intervention of Lloyds TSB as Abbey continued merger talks with Bank of Scotland BoS. Lloyds increased its initial informal takeover approach to 1.5 of its own shares plus [pound]2.60 in...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Abbey Home Media Announce Exclusive Distribution Deal With Sesame Workshop, Producers Of Sesame Street; Abbey Home Media Expand Their Dynamic Pre-School Portfolio With Another Iconic Property.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 March 2008-Abbey Home Media Group: Abbey Home Media Announce Exclusive Distribution Deal With Sesame Workshop, Producers Of Sesame Street; Abbey Home Media Expand Their Dynamic Pre-School Portfolio With Another Iconic PropertyC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04032008 Abbey Home...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- Hirings; Abbey National Asset.
- LONDON - Abbey National Asset Management hired Bank of New York as global custodian for [pounds sterling]30 billion ($56.2 billion) of assets, confirmed Thomas Coops, Abbey communications director. Four different companies, including the Bank of Ne LONDON - Abbey National Asset Management hired Bank...
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- Abbey National sells portfolio of leveraged loans to GE.
- UK bank Abbey National sold off some of its wholesale banking business Thursday, unloading an $807.9m ([euro]700m) portfolio of leveraged loans to GE European Leveraged Finance.The move cements Abbey's exit from the leveraged loan market and Fairfiel UK bank Abbey National sold off some of its...
- Research articles 2003-06-27
- HBOS pulls out of Abbey bidding.
- HBOS is not going to counter-bid for Abbey National. It thinks that its existing prospects are superior to those likely to be achieved by combining with Abbey. HBOS is not going to counter-bid for Abbey National. It thinks that its existing prospects are superior...
- Research articles 2004-09-17
- News: Abbey outsources oe1.2bn unit trust.(Brief Article)
- State Street Global Advisors SSgA, JPMorgan Fleming and Barclays Global Investors have won a total of GBP1.2bn after Abbey outsourced its largest unit trust. [ ] Boston-based SSgA will run half of the Abbey National UK Growth Unit Trust, with the o State Street Global Advisors...
- Research articles 2004-04-05
- SCH finalising Abbey acquisition
- MADRID AFP — Spain's biggest bank Banco Santander Central Hispano SCH said it was finalising its acquisition of Britain's Abbey National to create the world's tenth-largest bank. Abbey National is to become a 100 percent subsidiary of the Santander group following the merger which was announced in late July....
- Research articles 2004-11-12
- Edward Abbey: A Life
- Edward Abbey: A Life. By James M. Cahalan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xv + 357 PP. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95. James M. Cahalan has written the definitive biography of environmentalist hero and writer Edward Abbey. In the company of such books as James Bishop's Epitaph for...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
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