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Bank to launch 'fee-free' account

19.11.09
Spanish banking giant Santander is set to launch an assault on the current account market with the introduction of a fee-free account available to mortgage customers... more

Santander in mortgage push with overdraft fillip

19.11.09
Spanish banking giant Santander today launched an aggressive strategy to grow its share of the UK mortgage market by offering home borrowers a current account with no overdraft fees ... more

Abbey profits from its mortgage business

28.10.09
Spanish-owned lender Abbey reported a 37% jump in profits after it cornered an increased share of the UK mortgage market... more

Santander, Nomura lifted by UK buys

28.10.09
Spanish banking giant Santander today reported a 37% jump in UK profits and said it was on course to attract one million new customers in Britain this year ... more

Lending up as Abbey rakes in the money

29.07.09
Abbey, the Spanish-owned bank which swallowed up Alliance & Leicester and parts of Bradford & Bingley, saw its profits jump more than 30% in the first six months of the year... more

Three big banking names to be wiped off the high street

27.05.09
Three of Britain’s best known banking names — Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester — are to be scrapped... more

Who’s up for the cup in the banking Premiership?

07.05.09
As the football season draws to a close — it must be because it’s raining at Lords, halting the First Test — and the football writers ponder their final vote for next week’s award, I think we need a team assessment of the UK banks ... more

Abbey surges as customers manage their money better

29.04.09
Abbey surprised the banking industry by reporting a significant decline in the amount it put aside for bad debts in the first three months of the year ... more

A&L dives £1.3bn into red as bad debts soar

20.03.09
Bad debts surged by 125% at Alliance & Leicester in 2008 as the bank, rescued last summer by the Abbey group, posted losses of £1.3 billion... more

Rich Yelena's new address: Swiss cottage

11.02.09
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Buoyant Abbey bucks the trend of despair

05.02.09
Banking: Abbey gave what is likely to be a rare upbeat view of business last year when many of its rival UK banks were driven into the hands of the Government or foreign investors... more

Influentials 2009

02.01.09
From finance to fashion and politics to property, the past 12 months have seen dramatic changes in who wields influence in the capital. So who are the up-and-coming power players in London this year?... more

Leap to £252m as Abbey cashes in on woes of rivals

28.10.08
Banking: Abbey posts a 20% jump in third-quarter profits to £252 million as it continues to dominate High Street savings and lendings... more

How dithering Darling failed to please bankers or the markets

07.10.08
When Chancellor Alastair Darling rose to address MPs on the financial crisis at 3.29 pm yesterday the FTSE 100 share index was a mere 200 points down... more

It’s a bit late for broker to stop coverage of B&B

30.09.08
Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands... more

B&B takeover gives Santander 10 per cent of savings

29.09.08
Banking: Spanish giant Santander launched a fresh assault on British High Street banking with the £612 million takeover of Bradford & Bingley’s deposits and branch network... more

Abbey is new top mortgage lender in UK

29.07.08
Halifax toppled as Spanish-owned bank takes more than a quarter of all business in first half of the year... more

Job fears as Santander to save £180m a year

14.07.08
Hundreds, maybe thousands of jobs are at risk after Santander said it expected to save £180m a year from swingeing cost-cutting at Alliance & Leicester... more

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