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VEGA Group PLC (VEGA) is helping Britannia Building Society - Britain`s second largest building society - to combat money laundering in the financial services sector.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2003-VEGA GROUP: VEGA Group PLC VEGA is helping Britannia Building Society - Britain`s second largest building society - to combat money laundering in the financial services sectorC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03272003 Under current laws and regulations financial institutions...
Tags: Britannia Building Society, VEGA Group Plc.
Research articles 2003-03-26
Scottish and Southern Energy to Build Status as Dominant Player in Britain.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16 -- Newly merged electricity giant Scottish and Southern Energy will eschew the fashion for growth through foreign empire building and concentrate on building its status as a dominant player in Britain. The Perth-headquartered group, headed...
Tags: Scottish and Southern Energy Plc.
Research articles 1998-12-17
Britain's Newcastle Building Society Rethinks Brick-and-Mortar Branches.
By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--A massive decline in the number of building society branches on Britain's High Streets is predicted by one of the industry's leading players. Robert Hollinshead, chief executive of...
Tags: Newcastle Building Society
Research articles 2002-06-16
Woolwich opts for Sapiens tool. (British building society using Sapiens International software for mortgage processing)
Leading British building society, The Woolwich, has selected the Sapiens International (Nasdaq: SPNSF) development tool as part of its program to develop a direct marketing mortgage system. Woolwich, which is the leading building society in Britain Leading British building society, The Woolwich, has selected...
Tags: Sapiens International, software, tool
Research articles 1997-04-15
Mortgage Survey: Are building society prophets getting it wrong on
Last month, against all expectations, one of Britain's best-known building societies, Bradford & Bingley, finally succumbed to carpetbaggers and decided to convert to a bank. Despite this, the country's remaining building societies continue to voice the dangers of demutualisation, saying remaining in a building society makes more financial...
Tags: Bradford & Bingley Plc.
Research articles 1999-05-22
Britain's biggest Muslim group faces 'extremism' charges
LONDON AFP — The most respected voice of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims is under fire for pandering to radicalism, just as it is being called upon to play a bridge-building role in the wake of the London bombings. The Muslim Council of Britain MCB is a coalition of some...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, British Broadcasting Corp., Government, London, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-08-23
Those two capitalisms, again; the travails of NatWest highlights the difference between Britain's famously impatient investors and the rest of Europe's famous patience. (National Westminster Bank PLC)(Leaders)(Editorial)
Shareholders are forcing NatWest to reconsider its plan to build a global investment bank along with it retail business. Because Britain's banks are earning good profits in commercial banking, NatWest's plans to combine commercial and investment banking appear foolish to stockholders.EVEN the casual observer must this week have noticed that...
Tags: National Westminster Bank Plc.
Research articles 1997-06-21
Britain's VT Group Awarded Type 45 Ship Section Contract
Britain's VT Group, formerly known as Vosper Thornycroft, last week said it has been awarded a contract worth about $300 million from Britain's BAE SYSTEMS to design and build the forward sections for the first six Type Daringclass destroyers. VT's Portsmouth, England, facility is responsible for building and outfitting...
Tags: BAE Systems Plc., VT Group Plc.
Research articles 2002-07-11
British Banks Take Big Slice of Mortgage Market Share from Building Societies.
By Jane Padgham, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 28--The inexorable decline of the building societies' role in Britain's housing market was starkly highlighted today. Figures from the Bank of England showed that the banks' share of the...
Tags: bank, Bank of England, FINANCE, Mortgages
Research articles 2001-08-28
Yorkshire Building Society goes live.
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 September 2001-SIMCORP: Yorkshire Building Society goes live C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27092001 Yorkshire Building Society, one of Britain`s top three building societies, which has assets of GBP11 billion, has gone live with its new treasury management system,...
Tags: Yorkshire Building Society
Research articles 2001-09-27
Tootal, Japanese building finish plant in Dundee. (Scotland)
Tootal, Japanese Building Finish Plant in Dundee LONDON FNS -- The Tootal Group PLC of Britain is building a 16 million pound ($28.2 million) fabric finishing plant in Dundee, Scotland, in a partnership with two Japanese firms, Jurabo Industries and Toyo Menka Kaisha of Japan. ...
Tags: Toyo Corp.
Research articles 1989-02-02
Riding high thanks to the Derbyshire.(Derbyshire Building Society)(Brief Article)
THE WORLD'S best cyclists are heading to the Midlands thanks to Derbyshire Building Society. The building society has joined forces with East Midlands Development Agency and organisers of the Tour of Britain cycle race to be sponsors of the third stage in the East...
Tags: Derbyshire Building Society
Research articles 2004-09-02
Javelin on target for CTRL: Hitachi is building a fleet of high-speed multi-system emus for operation between southern Britain and London. The first are due to arrive next year, in time for full fleet service in 2009
HITACHI's latest aluminum multiple unit design, the A-train, was initially placed in service on commuter and suburban lines in Japan, but from 2009, will face a new challenge when a fleet of 225km/h six-car emus enter service on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link CTRL in Britain.
Tags: Hitachi Ltd.
Research articles 2006-09-01
Lack of trust hinders police bridge-building with Britain's Muslims
LONDON AFP — Police in Britain say Muslims could do more to co-operate with them in the wake of the London bombings, but it will take time to overcome fear, mistrust and powerlessness felt in the community. Tarique Ghaffur, the most senior Muslim police officer in London's Metropolitan Police,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Britain, London, SECURITY
Research articles 2005-08-18
Homelessness worse in Britain than 40 years ago: charity report
LONDON AFP — Britain's homelessness problem has become more serious in the last 40 years because of massive cuts in social house-building and steep hikes in house prices, a major housing charity says. Shelter said in its 40th anniversary report that more than one million children are currently living...
Tags: accommodation, Agence France-Presse, Britain, director
Research articles 2006-02-14
Car industry - Micra economics.(Britain's car industry)(Brief Article)
BIRMINGHAM THE Motor Show in Birmingham this week was full of paradoxes. The star of the show was undoubtedly the new Mini, on display for the first time in Britain. But its progenitor, Rover, was not even there. Although the show is held only...
Tags: Britain, car, Mini, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2000-10-21
First flat-pack homes springing up in Britain
LONDON AFP — Building has started on a first batch of low-cost, flat-pack homes -- a Swedish design to ease the housing crunch -- in Britain, which is in the grip of a chronic shortage of affordable housing amid rising prices and immigration. The homes being constructed in Gateshead,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Construction, IKEA
Research articles 2007-09-06
Britain rallies round Sierra Leone player who fears mutilation
LONDON AFP — A remarkable campaign of support is building in Britain behind a 19-year-old footballer who is facing deportation to his native Sierra Leone where he fears his life would be at danger from a witchcraft cult. Alhassan 'Al' Bangura has packed plenty into four years in his...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, CAREER, Government, London, MARKETING
Research articles 2007-12-18
Britain's housing boom is over, Nationwide economists say.
By Jane Padgham, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1--The strongest evidence yet that the housing boom is over came today from Britain's biggest building society. Nationwide said the average cost of a home rose 0.1 percent to ...
Tags: Bank of England, Britain, economist, FINANCE, Taxes
Research articles 2004-09-01
How We (Don't) Cope With Snow in Britain
It snowed in Britain yesterday. You'd have had to have been under a big rock for the past 24 hours to have missed the fact. Reporters, probably delighted to be covering something other than bankruptcies and jobless figures, revelled in every snow pun, while other countries sniggered at our inability...
Tags: Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2009-02-03
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