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    <description>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</description>
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    <description>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</description>
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    <description>Does the European Commission watch Strictly Come Dancing? Because if they did, they might appreciate the two steps forward, one step back nature of what is actually being imposed on the UK this week d</description>
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    <description>Spanish-owned lender Abbey reported a 37% jump in profits after it cornered an increased share of the UK mortgage market</description>
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    <description>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</description>
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    <description>Buildings maintenance supplier Mitie bucked the recessionary trend with figures showing the first quarter of its financial year had kicked off well as customers outsourced more operations to save money</description>
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    <description>On the face of it a 69% fall in annual pre-tax profits or even the slightly more modest 50% drop in underlying profits by Nationwide does not immediately present itself as the strongest argument for mutuality</description>
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    <description>Before the start of the Cheltenham Festival today, the racecourse's managing director Edward Gillespie admitted corporate hospitality has taken a hit - it's down around 10%, he says, although some think that may be a little optimistic</description>
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    <description>Santander, the Spanish bank that owns Abbey, Alliance &amp; Leicester and the branch network of Bradford &amp; Bingley, was forced by a Madrid watchdog to rush out its 2008 profit figure</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Scandal: &lt;/strong&gt; Spanish bank Santander is under investigation after it lost more than €2.3 billion of clients’ money in the alleged Bernard Madoff fraud</description>
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    <description>Spanish banking giant Santander moves to shore up the finances of its UK High Street financial services chains Abbey and Alliance &amp; Leicester with a £1 billion cash injection</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Banking: &lt;/b&gt;Spanish giant Santander launched a fresh assault on British High Street banking with the £612 million takeover of Bradford &amp; Bingley’s deposits and branch network</description>
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    <description>British banks are braced for a multi-billion pound bill from the collapse of Bradford &amp; Bingley, with analysts suggesting they could be hit for as much as £10 billion</description>
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    <description>Millions of consumers were facing the prospect of higher mortgage costs and lower savings rates as Britain suffered its third major financial collapse of the world banking crisis</description>
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    <description>The heads of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the rest have been sternly condemning the evil short sellers in hedge funds for wreaking havoc on their share prices, spreading panic among counterparties and generally being beastly</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Banking:&lt;/strong&gt; Rival banks are set to demand that the new giant Lloyds TSB-HBOS group sells off parts of its empire once the dust settles from the current financial crisis</description>
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    <description>The instinctive reaction of many people on hearing of falling bank profits will be to cheer. Overpaid so-and-sos, they've had it far too easy for too long, ripping us off, closing branches, blah blah</description>
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    <description>Halifax toppled as Spanish-owned bank takes more than a quarter of all business in first half of the year</description>
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    <description>Alliance &amp;amp; Leicester set to fall into Spanish hands after it accepts a &amp;pound;1.26bn takeover bid from the owner of rival bank Abbey</description>
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    <description>Hundreds, maybe thousands of jobs are at risk after Santander said it expected to save £180m a year from swingeing cost-cutting at Alliance &amp; Leicester</description>
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    <description>Shareholders were licking their lips over a raft of possible takeover action as actual and rumoured deals totalling almost &amp;pound;12 billion hit dealers' screens</description>
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    <title>Deal the watchdog was begging for</title>
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    <description>The &amp;pound;1.26 billion takeover of Alliance &amp;amp; Leicester by Spanish giant Santander will delight many in the City  -  none more so than Hector Sants</description>
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    <description>Bank will become the club's official financial partner as part of a two-year deal</description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-18T09:19:45Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Reports say Inbev is about to formally launch its £23bn bid for rival beer brewer Anheuser-Busch</description>
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