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Sort codes are the domestic bank codes used to route money transfers between financial institutions in the United Kingdom, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland. They are six-digit hierarchical numerical addresses that specify clearing banks, clearing systems, regions, large financial institutions, groups of financial institutions and ultimately resolve to individual branches.
The Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) is a unique number (a geocode) for every addressable location—e.g., a building, a bus stop, a post box, a feature in the landscape, or a defibrillator—in Great Britain. [1] Over 42 million locations have UPRNs, which can be found in Ordnance Survey's AddressBase databases. [1]
The number of payments passing through the Bacs system topped six billion for the first time the following year, with a value of £4.6 trillion. The number of direct debits processed in 2015 increased by 239 million over the 2014 total. [16] A record 103 million transactions were processed in a single July 2015 day.
Today, banks use routing numbers to process several types of transactions, including automated clearing house transfers and wire transfers. Routing numbers are public information that anyone can find.
In Zimbabwe, Central Africa Building Society (CABS) is the leading building society offering a diverse range of financial products and services that include transaction and savings accounts, mobile banking, mortgage loans, money market investments, term deposits and pay-roll loans.
The Building Societies (Funding) and Mutual Societies (Transfers) Act 2007 (c. 26) (sometimes referred to as the Butterfill Act) is an act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act gives building societies greater powers to merge with other companies.
In Britain the number of active credit unions fell from 565 in 2004 to 390 in 2012; some merged, but others became insolvent. Six ceased trading in 2012, and at least eight had ceased in 2013 by the end of July. [12] However, the number of members has increased from 1.04 million in 2012 to 2 million in 2018. [12] [19]
For the financial year 2021/2022, the British building society sector had assets of around £483, of which more than half were accounted for by the cooperative Nationwide Building Society. European Co-operative Banking: Facts and figures 2017. Based on the 2017 Key statistics collected by the EACB.