by Yasmin | Sep 7, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
Access was a credit card brand originally introduced in the United Kingdom in 1972 by a consortium of National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank (nowHSBC), Lloyds Bank (now Lloyds TSB Halifax Bank of Scotland) and Williams & Glyn’s Bank (now the Royal Bank of Scotland), as a rival to the established Barclaycard (Visa). It was also issued in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by Ulster Bank, a subsidiary of NatWest, Northern Bank, then a subsidiary of Midland; and Bank of Ireland, which was otherwise unconnected to the founder banks.
The card scheme was run from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, by the Joint Credit Card Company Limited. It participated in theEurocard/MasterCard systems. Europay International SA has since been taken over by MasterCard International.
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by Yasmin | Aug 13, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
The Woolwich is a trademark of the British bank Barclays. Originally the ‘Woolwich’ was the Woolwich Building Society before it demutualisedand became a public limited company in 1997. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Barclays in 2000.
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by Yasmin | Jun 29, 2012 | 1970s, Financial
Halifax is a banking chain in the United Kingdom and a division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. It is the UK’s largest provider of residential mortgages and savings accounts. It is named after the town ofHalifax, West Yorkshire where it was founded as a building society in 1853. Its slogan is “A Little Extra Help”.
Halifax Building Society developed into the UK’s largest building society by 1913. It de-mutualised in 1997 becoming Halifax plc, which was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In 2001 Halifax plc merged with The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland, forming HBOS. In 2006, the HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 legally transferred the assets and liabilities of the Halifax chain to Bank of Scotland which became a standard plc, with Halifax becoming a division of Bank of Scotland. A takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB was approved by the Court of Session on 12 January 2009, and on 19 January 2009 Bank of Scotland – including Halifax – formally became part of Lloyds Banking Group.
On 16 October 2009, Halifax Estate Agency was sold to LSL Properties for a fee of £1. The branches were renamed as one of LSL’s existing brands, Reeds Rains.
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by Yasmin | May 24, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
The former building society was formed by the merger of the Alliance Building Society (originally based in and called the Brighton & Sussex) and the Leicester Building Society on 1 October 1985. In 1990, the society acquired Girobank, a major provider of cash-handling services to the government and large companies and current accounts, from the Post Office. With other large building societies such as Halifax and Woolwich, Alliance & Leicester decided to float on the London Stock Exchange, generatingwindfall payments to members worth up to £5,000 each. Flotation took place on 21 April 1997.
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by Yasmin | May 10, 2012 | 1970s, Financial
Access was a credit card brand originally introduced in the United Kingdom in 1972 by a consortium of National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank (now HSBC), Lloyds Bank (now Lloyds TSB), and The Royal Bank of Scotland, as a rival to the established Barclaycard (VISA). It was also issued in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by Ulster Bank, a subsidiary of NatWest, Northern Bank, then a subsidiary of Midland; and Bank of Ireland, which was unconnected to the founder banks.
The card scheme was run from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, by the Joint Credit Card Company Limited. It participated in the Eurocard/MasterCard systems.Europay International SA has since been taken over by MasterCard International itself.
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by Yasmin | Apr 19, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
1989 advert for The Prudential ‘I want to be a Brain Surgeon’ version
The Company was founded on 30 May 1848 in Hatton Garden in London as The Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association providing loans to professional and working people.
In 1854 the Company began selling the relatively new concept of industrial branch insurance policies to the working class population for premiums as low as one penny through agents acting as door to door salesmen. The army of premium collection agents was for many years identified with the Prudential as the “Man from the Pru”.
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