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Bingley Permanent Building Society

Bingley Permanent Building Society was a UK building society, which merged with the Bradford Equitable Building Society in 1964 to form the Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

Cheque and Credit Clearing Company

As well as clearing cheques, the system processes the following forms of payment: banker's drafts, building society cheques, Postal Orders, warrants, government payable orders and traveler's cheques.

Girobank

It added savings accounts, overdrafts, revolving credit accounts, credit and debit cards, and was instrumental in the formation of the LINK ATM consortium of smaller banks and building societies which led the commercial clearing banks to begin linking their own networks which they had hitherto refused to do.

James William Gilbart

His work and frequently updated books such as his Practical Treatise on Banking (1827) were eventually widely adopted to improve the British banking systems and laid the foundations of the modern publicly owned retail bank and Building Society movement.

Kerry Pollard

He urged Bradford & Bingley members to vote against moves to force Britain's second-largest building society to convert to a bank, saying "the early day motion will express the fear that were Bradford & Bingley Building Society to become a bank, the entire building society movement will be damaged directly."


see also

Barnsley Building Society

Barnsley today is part of the Yorkshire Building Society Group, which comprises; Yorkshire Building Society, Chelsea Building Society, Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, Accord Mortgages, and Egg Banking.

Cowbridge Grammar School

William Tudor John (born 1944) — Deputy Chairman of Nationwide Building Society since 2007; Chairman of Lehman Brothers (Europe) 2000–2008

Edward Akroyd

In the mid-1850s, he helped found the Yorkshire Penny Bank (to encourage workers to save), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society (later the Halifax Building Society) to promote home ownership through his model village Akroydon.

Leeds Building Society

On 1 August 2006, following approval by the Mercantile members and confirmation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Leeds Building Society merged with Mercantile Building Society.

Leeds Permanent Building Society

It should not be confused with the still existing Leeds Building Society (formerly Leeds and Holbeck Building Society)

Leonard Williams

Leonard E. H. Williams (1919–2007), former head of the Nationwide Building Society and Spitfire pilot

Nona Byrne

In 1960, with her husband Vincent Byrne, she founded the Catholic Building Society, becoming the first woman to be elected chairman of a building society.

Universal Building Society

In 2006, the Universal Building Society merged with the Newcastle Building Society.

Viaduc d'Austerlitz

Tasked with the bridge construction, the Building Society of Levallois-Perret (La Societé de Construction de Levallois-Perret) proposed a bridge with a span reaching 140 m, which was a record out of all the Parisian bridges at the time.

West Brom

West Bromwich Building Society, a building society whose headquarters are in West Bromwich