United Kingdom bank account
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Economy—overview: The UK is one of the world's great trading powers and financial centers and its essentially capitalistic economy ranks among the four largest in Western Europe. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive highly mechanized and efficient by European standards producing about 60% of food needs with only about 1% of the labor force. The UK has large coal natural gas and oil reserves; primary energy production accounts for 12% of GDP one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. Services particularly banking insurance and business services account by far for the largest proportion of GDP while industry continues to decline in importance now employing only 18% of the work force. Exports and manufacturing output have been the primary engines of growth. Unemployment is gradually falling. Inflation is a moderate 3.1%. A major economic policy question for the UK in the late 1990s is the terms on which it participates in the financial and economic integration of Europe.
GDP: purchasing power parity—$1.242 trillion (1997 est.)
GDP—real growth rate: 3.5% (1997 est.)
GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity—$21 200 (1997 est.)
GDP—composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.8%
industry: 31.4%
services: 66.8% (1996 est.)
Inflation rate—consumer price index: 3.1% (1997)
Labor force:
total: 28.2 million (1997)
by occupation: services 68.9% manufacturing and construction 17.5% government 11.3% energy 1.2% agriculture 1.1% (1996)
Unemployment rate: 5.5% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $416.1 billion
expenditures: $470 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)
Industries: production machinery including machine tools electric power equipment automation equipment railroad equipment shipbuilding aircraft motor vehicles and parts electronics and communications equipment metals chemicals coal petroleum paper and paper products food processing textiles clothing and other consumer goods
Industrial production growth rate: 2% (1997 est.)
Electricity—capacity: 360.9 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity—consumption per capita: 5 546 kWh (1995)
Agriculture—products: cereals oilseed potatoes vegetables; cattle sheep poultry; fish
Exports:
total value: $268 billion (f.o.b. 1997)
commodities: manufactured goods machinery fuels chemicals semifinished goods transport equipment
partners: EU countries 53.2% (Germany 12.4% France 9.9% Netherlands 7.8%) US 11.4% (1996)
Imports:
total value: $283.5 billion (f.o.b. 1997)
commodities: manufactured goods machinery semifinished goods foodstuffs consumer goods
partners: EU countries 50.2% (Germany 14.2% France 9.0% Netherlands 6.5%) US 13.9% (1996)
Debt—external: $16.2 billion (June 1992)
Economic aid:
donor: ODA $2.908 billion (1993)
Currency: 1 British pound (£) = 100 pence
Exchange rates: British pounds (£) per US$1—0.6115 (January 1998) 0.6106 (1997) 0.6403 (1996) 0.6335 (1995) 0.6529 (1994) 0.6658 (1993)
Fiscal year: 1 April—31 March
Source - world66.com
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Great Britain Banks List
* Bank of England - The Central Bank of England.
* Bank of Scotland - Bank of Scotland is one of the country's major financial institutions.
* ADM Investor Services International Limited - Offers a 24 hour pure client driven foreign exchange brokerage service. Quoting approximately 45 currencies in spot, forward and emerging market NDF's for corporates, hedgers, funds and individuals. SFA member and part of Archer Daniels Midland Company.
* AGI Corporate Fiance Limited - AGI is a London Headquartered Corporate Finance firm specialising in M&A, MBO's and Private Equity.
* Amanda J Molyneux & Company - International Banking Specialist. Private & Corporate offshore accounts & Secured credit cards.
* Barclays Bank PLC - General information about Barclays Bank and some of its UK services.
* Bern Savings Bank - Bern Savings Bank offers professional banking services to corporate and individual clients able to appreciate the advantages of international banking. We pride ourselves on the complete confidentiality of principles, total preservation of assets, and high-yielding interest rates.Trust management, the highest US Government money market rates, and management of investments worldwide - these are only few of some of the services offered by Bern Savings Bank.
* Bristol & West PLC - Specialists in Mortgages, Savings & Investments.
* Citibank UK - Citibank UK Retail Banking Experience.
* Egg - Egg is the leading UK internet bank.
* Finance Assured UK Property Investment Mortgage Provider - Providing Buy to Let mortgages for UK and non UK residents. If they have a 20% deposit, regardless of where they live a buy to let mortgae can be obtained.
* First Direct - We're a direct bank and we build our products and services around you and your needs. We deliver greater control to you by your computer, by telephone, and by mobile phone. As leaders in telephone banking you can be assured of a welcome response when you call us. We're the Internet Bank you can talk to. We also offer a full range of direct financial products and services, including insurance, investments and mortgages. They all share our common sense and good value approach to banking.
* Halifax Building Society - The Halifax Building Society, currently the largest in the World.
* HSBC Holdings plc - Headquartered in London, HSBC Holdings plc is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world with branches in the USA, UK and Hongkong.
* Lloyds TSB Bank plc. - The Lloyds TSB Banking Group.
* Nationwide Building Society
* NatWest Expatriate Service - The dedicated website of the NatWest Expatriate Service from NatWest Offshore. We realise that moving outside of your home country may be tinged with apprehension - so you'll see we offer much more than financial information.
* NatWest UK - National Westminster Bank.
* Putnam, Lovell, de Guardiola & Thornton - Putnam Lovell is an independent investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the investment management, broker-dealer (including on-line) and related financial services industries.
* Quartz Capital Partners - Quartz Capital Partners is a pan-European financial services firm that specialises in Life Sciences and Information Technology investment. Our integrated investment banking activities embrace corporate financial advice and transaction processing, published investment research, and supporting market making.
* RJS Global Services - Professional Intermediaries to UK and Offshore Banks and Financial Institutions.
* Royal Bank of Scotland - Scotland's Leading Bank.
* Salomon Brothers International Limited - London-based home page of Salomon Brother International Limited.
* Scotiabank UK Ltd. - Scotiabank UK provides a complete range of retail, commercial, corporate, investment and international banking services to customers in the UK. Scotiabank is an international bank with more than 1,700 branches and offices in over 50 countries, our 41,000 employees deliver the quality service that has made Scotiabank one of world's premier financial institutions. Since welcoming our first customer in 1832, Scotiabank has enjoyed continued success by building on five core strengths and executing the basics of banking exceptionally well.
* Smile the Internet Bank - smile has been designed and built for the Internet and is part of The Co-operative Bank p.l.c. - one of the most innovative of the UK's high street banks. The Co-operative Bank led the way in offering free banking, an ethical banking policy, telephone banking 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and credit cards with a lifetime's freedom from charges.
* Standard Chartered Bank - Standard Chartered Bank, a bank establised by Royal Charter 1853. Standard Chartered is an emerging markets bank with a strong presence in Asia, the sub-continent, the Middle East, Africa and in Latin America. We are a disciplined commercial bank focused on our core businesses of Consumer Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking and Treasury. We employ over 33,000 people in 740 offices in over 55 countries. We aim to be the leading international bank in our principal markets. We concentrate on markets and businesses we understand. We provide high quality products supported by proven delivery systems and excellent customer service. We train and develop our people and exercise community responsibility. In this way, we will grow and add shareholder value.
* Standard Life Bank - Standard Life Bank, a UK telephone bank, specialising in savings.
* Sun Bank - Info on mortgages, Tessa accounts, savings accounts and offshore services offered by the UK banking arm of Sun Life of the Canada Group of Companies.
* TSB Bank
* Union CAL 24 hour Futures & Foreign Exchange Brokers - Offers a comprehensive range of services suited to your needs, from futures and options brokerage to technical analysis, market reports, and research.
* WestLB Panmure - WestLB Panmure offer Equities and investment banking for European growth companies and their global investor base. Our core sectors: Technology, Life Sciences, Media and Communications, Support Services, Growth Industrials and Transportation.
* Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge UK - Banking, finance and business publications online.
* Woolwich Plc.
LIST OF BANKS AS COMPILED BY THE FSA ON 31 DECEMBER 2001
Banks incorporated in the United Kingdom
Abbey National plc Daiwa Securities Trust And Banking (Europe) plc
Abbey National Treasury Services plc Direct Line Financial Services Ltd
ABC International Bank plc Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Ltd
Adam & Company plc Dunbar Bank plc
Airdrie Savings Bank Duncan Lawrie Ltd
Alliance & Leicester Group Treasury plc
Alliance & Leicester plc Eccles Savings And Loans Ltd
Alliance Trust Savings Ltd EFG Private Bank Ltd
Allied Bank Philippines (UK) plc
Allied Irish Bank (GB)/First Trust Bank - (AIB Group (UK) plc) FCE Bank plc
Alpha Bank London Ltd FIBI Bank (UK) plc
AMC Bank Ltd First National Bank plc
Anglo-Romanian Bank Ltd Fleet Bank (Europe) Ltd
Ansbacher & Co Ltd Frizzell Bank Ltd
Arbuthnot Latham & Co, Ltd
Assemblies of God Property Trust GE Capital Bank Ltd
Associates Capital Corporation plc Gem Money Management Ltd
AY Bank Ltd (In Administration) Ghana International Bank plc
Girobank plc
Banc of America Securities Ltd Goldfish Bank Ltd
Bank Insinger de Beaufort plc Goldman Sachs International Bank
Bank Leumi (UK) plc Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd
Bank Mandiri (Europe) Ltd
Bank of Butterfield (UK) Ltd Habib Allied International Bank plc
Bank of Cyprus (London) Ltd Habibsons Bank Ltd
Bank of New York Europe Ltd, The Halifax plc
Bank of Scotland (Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland, The) Hampshire Trust plc
Bank of Scotland Treasury Services plc Hardware Federation Finance Co Ltd, The
Bank One Capital Markets Ltd Harrods Bank Ltd
Bank Sepah International plc Harton Bank Ltd
Bankers Trust International plc Havana International Bank Ltd
Bankgesellschaft Berlin (UK) plc Heritable Bank Ltd
Barclays Bank plc HFC Bank plc
Barclays Bank Trust Company Ltd HSBC Bank Middle East
Barclays Private Bank Ltd HSBC Bank plc
Black Horse Ltd HSBC Equator Bank plc
BNP Paribas Private Bank plc HSBC Investment Bank plc
Bradford & Bingley plc HSBC Republic Bank (UK) Ltd
Bristol & West plc HSBC Trust Company (UK) Ltd
British Arab Commercial Bank Ltd
Brown Shipley & Co. Ltd 3i Group plc
Investec Bank (UK) Ltd
C Hoare & Co Iran Overseas Investment Bank plc
CA Premier Banking Ltd
Cafcash Ltd J P Morgan International Bank Ltd
Capital Bank plc Jordan International Bank plc
Capital One Bank (Europe) plc Julian Hodge Bank Ltd
Cater Allen Ltd
Chase Manhattan International Ltd Kexim Bank (UK) Ltd
Cheltenham & Gloucester plc Kleinwort Benson Investment Management Ltd
Church House Trust plc Kookmin Bank International Ltd
CIBC World Markets plc
Citibank International plc
Close Brothers Ltd
Clydesdale Bank plc
Consolidated Credits Bank Ltd
Co-operative Bank plc, The
Coutts & Co
Credit Agricole Lazard Financial Products Bank
Credit Suisse First Boston International
Crown Agents Financial Services Ltd
LIST OF BANKS AS COMPILED BY THE FSA ON 31 DECEMBER 2001
Banks incorporated in the United Kingdom
Lazard Bank Ltd TD Bank Europe Ltd
Legal & General Bank Ltd Tesco Personal Finance Ltd
Leopold Joseph & Sons Ltd Tokai Bank Europe Ltd
Lloyds Bank (BLSA) Ltd Turkish Bank (UK) Ltd
Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Lloyds TSB Private Banking Ltd UBS Warburg Ltd
Lloyds TSB Scotland plc Ulster Bank Ltd
Lloyds UDT Ltd United Bank of Kuwait plc, The
Lombard & Ulster Ltd Unity Trust Bank plc
Lombard Bank Ltd
Lombard North Central plc Weatherbys Bank Ltd
London Scottish Bank plc Wesleyan Savings Bank Ltd
West Merchant Bank Ltd
Marks and Spencer Financial Services Ltd Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank Ltd
Matlock Bank Ltd Wintrust Securities Ltd
MBNA Europe Bank Ltd Woolwich plc
Melli Bank plc
Merrill Lynch HSBC Ltd Yorkshire Bank plc
Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd
Methodist Chapel Aid Association Ltd, The Zurich Bank plc
Minster Trust Ltd
Mizuho International plc
Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Bank Ltd
Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd
Multi Commercial Bank (UK) Ltd
N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd
National Bank of Egypt International Ltd
National Bank of Kuwait (International) plc
National Westminster Bank plc
Noble Grossart Ltd
Nomura Bank International plc
Northern Bank Executor & Trustee Company Ltd
Northern Bank Ltd
Northern Rock plc
Pakistan International Bank (UK) Ltd
Persia International Bank Ltd
Philippine National Bank (Europe) plc
Pointon York Ltd
Prudential Banking plc
Prudential-Bache International Bank Ltd
R Raphael & Sons plc
Rathbone Investment Management Ltd
Reliance Bank Ltd
Riggs Bank Europe Ltd
Royal Bank of Canada Europe Ltd
Royal Bank of Scotland plc, The
Royscot Trust plc
Ruffler Bank plc
Sabanci Bank plc
Sainsbury’s Bank plc
Sanwa International plc
Schroder & Co Ltd
Scotiabank Europe plc
Scottish Widows Bank plc
Secure Trust Bank plc
SG Hambros Bank & Trust Ltd
Siemens Financial Services Ltd
Singer & Friedlander Ltd
Smith & Williamson Investment Management Ltd
Sonali Bank (UK) Ltd
Southsea Mortgage & Investment Co Ltd
Standard Bank London Ltd
Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Life Bank Ltd
State Street Bank Europe Ltd
Sun Bank plc
LIST OF BANKS AS COMPILED BY THE FSA ON 31 DECEMBER 2001
Banks incorporated outside the EEA authorised to accept deposits through a branch in the UK
ABSA Bank Ltd Industrial Bank of Japan, The
American Express Bank Ltd Israel Discount Bank Ltd
AMP Bank Ltd
Arab African International Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank
Arab Bank plc
Arab National Bank KorAm Bank
Asahi Bank Ltd, The Korea Development Bank, The
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd Korea Exchange Bank
Korea First Bank
Banco de la Nación Argentina
Banco do Brazil SA Macquarie Bank Ltd
Banco Mercantil de São Paulo SA Malayan Banking Berhad
Banco Nacional de Mexico SA Mashreqbank PSC
Bangkok Bank Public Company Ltd Mellon Bank, NA
Bank Hapoalim BM Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation, The
Bank Mellat
Bank Melli Iran Nacional Financiera SNC
Bank of America NA National Australia Bank Ltd
Bank of Baroda National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Bank of Ceylon National Bank of Canada
Bank of China National Bank of Dubai PJSC, The
Bank of Cyprus Ltd National Bank of Pakistan
Bank of East Asia Ltd, The Nedcor Bank Ltd
Bank of India Norinchukin Bank, The
Bank of Montreal Northern Trust Company, The
Bank of New York, The
Bank of Nova Scotia, The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi, Ltd, The Overseas Union Bank Ltd
Bank One, NA
Bank Saderat Iran Providian National Bank
Bank Sepah-Iran Pt Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) TBK
Bank Tejarat
Bankers Trust Company Qatar National Bank SAQ
BBVA Bancomer
Beirut Riyad Bank SAL Rafidain Bank (Provisional Liquidator Appointed)
BSI AG Riggs Bank NA
Bumiputra Commerce Bank Berhad Riyad Bank
Royal Bank Of Canada
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canara Bank Sanwa Bank Ltd, The
Chang Hwa Commercial Bank Ltd Saudi American Bank
Chiba Bank Ltd, The Saudi British Bank, The
Chohung Bank Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd
Citibank NA Shinhan Bank
Commonwealth Bank of Australia State Bank of India
Credit Suisse First Boston State Street Bank and Trust Company
Cyprus Popular Bank Ltd, The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co Ltd, The
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd, The Syndicate Bank
Dao Heng Bank Ltd
Development Bank of Singapore Ltd, The TC Ziraat Bankasi AS
Discount Bank and Trust Company Tokai Bank Ltd, The
Toronto-Dominion Bank, The
Emirates Bank International PJSC Turkiye Is Bankasi AS
Fleet National Bank UBS AG
First Bank of Nigeria plc Union Bancaire Privée, UBP
First Commercial Bank Union Bank of Nigeria plc
First Union National Bank United Bank Ltd
Fuji Bank Ltd, The United Mizrahi Bank Ltd
United Overseas Bank Ltd
Gulf International Bank BSC
Wachovia Bank, NA
Habib Bank AG Zurich Westpac Banking Corporation
Habib Bank Ltd
Hanvit Bank
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd, The
HSBC Bank USA
Hua Nan Commercial Bank Ltd
LIST OF BANKS AS COMPILED BY THE FSA ON 31 DECEMBER 2001
Banks incorporated in the EEA entitled to accept deposits through a branch in the UK
ABN AMRO Bank NV EFG Eurobank Ergasias AE
Allied Irish Bank plc Erste Bank der Oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG
Alpha Bank AE
Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc
Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta SCPA ARL FIMAT International Banque
Banca di Roma SpA First Active plc
Banca d'Intermediazione Mobiliare IMI SpA Fortis Bank SA/NV
Banca March SA
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA Hamburgische Landesbank Girozentrale
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA
Banca Popolare di Milano ICC Bank Plc
Banca Popolare di Novara ING Bank NV
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA Intesabci SpA (Banca Intesa Banca Commerciale Italiana SpA)
Banco Comercial Português SA Irish Nationwide Building Society
Banco de Sabadell
Banco di Napoli SpA Jyske Bank A/S
Banco di Sicilia SpA
Banco Espírito Santo SA Kas-Associates NV
Banco Mercantil de Sao Paulo International SA KBC Bank NV
Banco Santander Central Hispano SA
Banco Totta & Açores SA Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
Bank Brussels Lambert Landesbank Berlin Girozentrale
Bank of Ireland, The Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Ltd Lehman Brothers Bankhaus AG
Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG
Banque AIG Natexis Banques Populaires
Banque Banorabe National Bank of Greece SA
Bayerische Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG NIB Capital Bank NV
Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale
Belgolaise SA Nordea Bank Finland plc
BHF-Bank AG (ING BHF-Bank AG)
BNP Paribas Piraeus Bank SA
BNP Paribas Private Bank
Byblos Bank Europe SA
Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole SA Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG
Caixa Geral de Deopsitos SA
Cardine Banca SpA Sanpaolo IMI SpA
Commercial Bank of Greece SA SEB AG
Commerzbank AG Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (PUBL)
Confederacion Espanola de Cajas de Ahorros Société Générale
Crédit Agricole Indosuez Svenska Handelsbanken AB (PUBL)
Crédit Commercial de France SA SwedBank (ForeningsSparkbanken AB (PUBL))
Crédit Industriel et Commercial Sygma Banque
Crédit Lyonnais
Triodosbank NV
Danske Bank A/S
Demir Halk Bank (Nederland) NV Ulster Bank Ireland Ltd
Den Norske Bank ASA Unibank A/S
DePfa Bank Europe plc UniCredito Italiano SpA
Deutsche Bank AG
Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg SA Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank
Dexia Public Finance Bank SA Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale
Dresdner Bank AG
DZ Bank AG, Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank
Rabobank International (Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-
Boerenleenbank Ba)
Euro Hypo Aktiengesellschaft Europäische Hypothekenbank der
Deutschen Bank
LIST OF BANKS AS COMPILED BY THE FSA ON 31 DECEMBER 2001
Banks authorised in the EEA entitled to establish branches in the UK but not to accept deposits in the UK
AIB Capital Markets plc
Banque PSA Finance
CA IB Investmentbank AG
Carr Futures SNC
CDC IXIS Capital Markets
Citibank AG
DePfa Bank AG
eCredit AB
Fimatex SA
Franfinance (Société Générale Vendor Finance)
IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
Irish Life & Permanent plc
International Finance Futures SNC
John Deere Bank SA
Rabo Securities NV
Rheinhyp Rheinische Hypothekenbank AG
SEB Private Bank SA
Telia Finans
Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers NV
UniCredit Banca Mobiliare SpA
Banks incorporated in the United Kingdom
Deletions:
Bank of Wales
Gresham Trust
Banks incorporated outside the EEA authorised to accept deposits through a branch in the UK
Deletions:
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Banks incorporated in the EEA entitled to accept deposits through a branch in the UK
Deletions:
Banco Espanol de Credito SA
Irish Life & Permanent plc
Unibank A/S
Change of Name:
Merita Bank plc to Nordea Bank Finland plc
Banks authorised in the EEA entitled to establish branches in the UK but not to accept deposits in the UK
Additions:
Irish Life & Permanent plc
Deletions:
Bank Labouchere NV