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The founding act granted the bank a monopoly on public banking in Scotland for 21 years, permitted the bank's directors to raise a nominal capital of £1,200,000 pounds Scots (£100,000 pounds Sterling), gave the proprietors (shareholders) limited liability, and in the final clause (repealed only in 1920) made all foreign-born proprietors ...
The Bank of England will either try to ensure the failed bank is sold onto another private sector purchaser, set up a subsidiary company to run the failing bank's assets (a "bridge-bank"), or for the UK Treasury to directly take shares in "temporary public ownership". This will wipe out the shareholders, but will keep creditors' claims intact.
The sector contributed a gross value of £86 billion to the UK economy in 2004. [3] The industry employed around 1.2 million people in the third quarter of 2012 (around 4% of the British workforce). The estimated amount of total taxes paid by the Financial Services Sector in the year to 31 March 2012 is £63bn, 11.6% of the total UK government ...
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Link (stylised as LINK) is the UK’s main ATM network, which allows consumers to withdraw cash from ATMs which do not belong to their bank. It is the largest interbank network in United Kingdom. It is a not-for profit organisation and is regulated by the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Payment Systems Regulator.
Free banking was widespread in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Dowd, Kevin, ed. (1992), The Experience of Free Banking, London: Routledge lists the most currently known episodes of free banking and discusses in some depth a number of them, including Canada, Colombia, Fuzhou, France, and Ireland. Monetary arrangements with monopoly issues of ...
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) was a trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector. From 1 July 2017, it was merged into UK Finance.. It represented members from a wide range of banking and financial services.
State Bank of India (UK) Limited State Bank of India: India: StreamBank PLC Independently run Wales: Tandem Bank Limited: Tandem Money Limited: England: TD Bank Europe Limited: Toronto-Dominion Bank: Canada: Tesco Personal Finance Plc: Barclays: England: Triodos Bank UK Ltd Triodos Bank N.V. Netherlands: TSB Bank plc: Banco Sabadell: Spain ...