Alliance & Leicester.   Company activities include: Mortgage Lending & Investments, Personal and Commercial Banking.

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Barclays    is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services. Company operates in over 60 countries and employs over 78,000 people.

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Bradford & Bingley's    main business activities are: LENDING providing a wide range of loans secured on property, focussed on specialist segments of the residential and other markets. RETAIL which sells a wide choice of financial products through its branches and direct channels, including our own savings products.

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HBOS   was formed following the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland on 10th September 2001, HBOS has 22 million customers. With assets of over 440 billion, it is the UKs largest mortgage and savings provider as well as being a major player in the provision of new current accounts and credit cards in the UK. With around 3 million private shareholders, HBOS has the largest private shareholder register in the UK.

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HSBC   Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBCs international network comprises over 9,800 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Companby has listings on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges. Through an international network linked by advanced technology, including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability, HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services: personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate, investment banking and markets; private banking; and other activities.

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Lloyds TSB    is a leading UK-based financial services group, which was created in 1995 following the merger of the TSB Group and the Lloyds Bank Group. Its businesses provide a wide range of banking and financial services in the UK and overseas, principally through branches of the Lloyds TSB Bank and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Lloyds TSB Scotland. In 2000, Lloyds TSB Group acquired Scottish Widows; this transaction positioned Lloyds TSB Group as one of the leading suppliers of long-term savings and protection products in the UK. During 2003 and 2004, Lloyds TSB Group disposed of a number of its overseas operations, as part of the process of managing its portfolio of businesses to focus on its core markets.

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Northern Rock Building Society    was formed on 1 July 1965 as a result of the merger of Northern Counties Permanent Building Society (established in 1850) and Rock Building Society (established in 1865). After such time, Northern Rock Building Society merged with a number of small local building societies and, prior to its conversion to a public limited company in October 1997, was an amalgamation of 53 societies. The most significant development in the recent history of Northern Rock was its conversion on 1 October 1997 from a building society to a public limited company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and authorised under the Banking Act 1987. The conversion also resulted in the establishment of The Northern Rock Foundation, a charitable body which is entitled to receive approximately 5% of the annual consolidated profit before tax of Northern Rock plc.

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Royal Bank of Scotland   Banking, financial and insurance services.

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Standard Chartered   Banking and financial services. Standard Chartered employs 38,000 people in 950 locations in more than 50 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom and the Americas. Standard Chartered is one of the worlds most international banks, with employees representing 80 nationalities. It serves both Consumer and Wholesale Banking customers. Consumer Banking provides credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, deposit taking and wealth management services to individuals and small to medium sized enterprises. Wholesale Banking provides corporate and institutional clients with services in trade finance, cash management, lending, securities services, foreign exchange, debt capital markets and corporate finance.

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