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On 1 August 2006, following approval by the Mercantile members and confirmation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Leeds Building Society merged with Mercantile Building Society, in North Shields, an area of North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear.
The Leeds Permanent Building Society was a building society founded in Leeds, England in 1848 and was commonly known in a shortened form as The Leeds or The Perm. It should not be confused with the extant Leeds Building Society (formerly Leeds and Holbeck Building Society)
HBOS offices in Lovell Park, Leeds, formerly those of the Leeds Permanent Building Society before its takeover by the Halifax Building Society. HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009.
Portman Building Society: 1993 Leeds Permanent Building Society: merged with the: Halifax Building Society: 1995 City & Metropolitan Building Society: merged with the: Stroud & Swindon Building Society: 1996 Nottingham Imperial Building Society: merged with the: Newcastle Building Society: 2000 Gainsborough Building Society: merged with the ...
Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution, the seventh largest cooperative financial institution [2] and the largest building society in the world with over 16 million members. [3] Its headquarters are in Swindon, England. Nationwide is made up of around 250 different building societies.
Yorkshire Building Society branch on Briggate in Leeds. In 1864, the Huddersfield Equitable Permanent Benefit Building Society was founded in Huddersfield, and expansion through a series of agreed mergers, predominantly with the Bradford Permanent Building Society in 1975
On 7 March 2024 Nationwide Building Society, the UK's largest building society, announced that they had made an offer to buy Virgin Money UK plc for £2.9 billion. Under the terms of the deal, the resulting company would be rebranded under the Nationwide banner over the next 6 years with the Virgin Money brand eventually disappearing. [16]
Alliance & Leicester plc was a British bank and former building society, formed by the merger in 1985 of the Alliance Building Society and the Leicester Building Society. The business demutualised in the middle of 1997, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange .
In August 1996, Abbey National took over the National & Provincial Building Society, which was itself the product of a 1982 merger between the Provincial Building Society and the Burnley Building Society. This merger increased Abbey National's branch network by almost two hundred branches and brought in three million more customers.
Lloyds/TSB merger Park Row Leeds branch of Lloyds Bank, with a sculpture of the black horse (called Cancara) in the foreground. In 1995, Lloyds Bank plc merged with TSB Group plc, forming Lloyds TSB Group plc. In 2000, the group acquired Scottish Widows, a mutual life-assurance company based in Edinburgh, in a deal worth £7 billion.