This is a working database that is updated on an ad - hoc basis. Most notes are from secondary sources so they should be verified before use. A source of Internet financial directories is given on the content page
| Allied Irish Bank | |
| Allied Irish Bank | |
| AMC Bank | |
| Bank of England | |
| Bank of Ireland Plc | |
| Bank of Scotland Plc | Online banking. Flexible Mortgage with cheque book allows customers to withdraw cash. |
| Bank of Wales | Member of the Bank of Scotland Group. |
| BankNet | An Internet Bank for the UK. |
| Barclays Bank Plc | Free internet services and online access to bank account for personal customers; business customers pay a small annual fee. |
| Baring Securities | |
| Barlays B2 | New Unit Trust savings account from Barclays Bank. |
| Brown Shipley & Co. | |
| Charterhouse Bank | |
| Chase Manhattan Bank NA | Link is to the US site. |
| Citibank (Europe) | Home banking via PC, telephone, screenphone, ATM, etc. |
| Close Brothers | |
| Clydsdale Bank | |
| Co-operative Bank | 2m customers. Will close all branches by 2000. Offering ISAs that can be purchased at the Co-operative supermarkets using a smart card. |
| Coutts & Co. | |
| Egg (Prudential) | Telephone and Internet savings & banking operation of Prudential Insurance. Exception interest rates attracted a flood of deposits reaching their 5 year target in just 1 year. In May 99 closed postal application for Internet only applications. |
| Exeter Bank | Now owned by Sun Bank / Sun Life Canada. |
| Finchley Bank | |
| First Direct | Midland Bank's telephone banking operation. |
| Fleming Premier Banking | |
| Girobank | Owned by Alliance & Leicester, a BS turned plc. |
| Hamilton Direct Bank | |
| HFC Bank Plc | |
| Investec Bank (UK) | |
| Julian Hodge Bank | |
| Kleinwort Benson Private Bank | |
| L&G Bank | Part of Legal and General. |
| Lloyds Bank | Took over TSB Bank, Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society and Abbey Life. About to sell Abbey. See Lloyds TSB. |
| Lloyds Bowmaker | |
| Lloyds TSB Group plc | Formed by the merger of Lloyds Bank and TSB Bank. Offers internet access to bank accounts. |
| Lombard Bank Direct / Lombard Direct | Trades as Lombard Direct. Offers personal unsecured loans. |
| Midland Bank Plc | |
| Morgan Stanley | |
| National Savings | HM Treasury backed. Provides Bonds, particularly fixed rate bonds for pensioners. |
| NatWest Bank | |
| NatWest Group | |
| Northern Bank | A Northern Ireland bank |
| Northern Bank (I.O.M.) | |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | Scottish bank also offering credit cards. |
| Saloman Brothers UK | |
| Scottish Widows Bank | Bank accounts and mortgages. Owned by the Scottish Windows insurance company. |
| Standard Chartered Bank Plc | Link is to US site. |
| Standard Life Bank | Telephone Banking with good rates of interest. |
| Sun Banking Corp | Took over Exeter Bank. Owned by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. |
| Trust Bank | Wholly owned subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland. |
| TSB Bank | Owned by Lloyds Bank. |
| United Trust Bank |
| Unity Bank | Customers include charities, voluntary organisations, trades unions, credit unions. Part of the Unity Group. |
| Yorkshire Bank |
| Abbey National Plc | First Building Society to convert to a plc. Offers bank accounts to personal and business customers. Took over National Provincial BS 1996. |
| Alliance & Leicester | Converted from mutual to plc. 3.5m customers. Owns Girobank. Set up own life operation in 96. Looking to take over mutual life co.. |
| Birmingham Midshires Building Society | Has been taken-over by Halifax. Has Marketing arrangement with Sun Life. |
| Bradford & Bingley Building Society | Plans to convert to plc. |
| Bristol and West | |
| Britannia Building Society | |
| Cambridge Building Society | |
| Chelsea Building Society | |
| Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society | Owned by Lloyds Bank. Took over Heart of England Building Society and Portsmouth Building Society. |
| Chesham Savings and Mortgage Building Society | |
| Cheshire Building Society | The Cheshire is committed to remaining a mutual Society. |
| Coventry Building Society | |
| Coventry Building Society - Remortgages | |
| Cumberland Building Society | |
| Darlington Building Society | |
| Dudley Building Society | |
| Dunfermline Building Society | |
| First Active | Formally First National Building Society. |
| First National Building Society (NI) | |
| Friendly Society Building Society | |
| Furness Building Society | |
| Greenwich Building Society | Taken over by Portman Building Society. |
| Halifax plc | Was a Building Society. Owns Clerical & Medical and Birmingham Midshire Building Society. |
| Heart of England Building Society | Now owned by Cheltenham & Gloucester which is owned by Lloyds Bank. |
| Hinckley and Rugby Building Society | |
| Kent Reliance Building Society | |
| Lambeth Building Society | |
| Leamington Spa Building Society | Taken over by the Bradford & Bingley Building Society. |
| Leeds and Holbeck Building Society | |
| Leeds Building Society | |
| Leek United Building Society | |
| Loughborough Building Society | Provides mortgages, savings products, insurance, credit cards and personal loans. |
| Market Harborough Building Society | |
| Marsden Building Society | |
| Melton Mowbray Building Society | |
| Mortgage Express | Part of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society. Specialists in mortgages with Negative Equity, for self employed, property for investment, and buy and let. |
| Mortgage Trust Building Society | |
| National & Provincial Building Society | Taken over by Abbey National in 1996 |
| National Counties Building Society | |
| Nationwide Building Society | Offers online banking via its own network. Committed to stay mutual. |
| Newbury Building Society | |
| Newcastle Building Society | |
| Northern Rock plc | Was a Building Society. Supplies GI products to GRE from 1/1/97 at est £65m annual premiums |
| Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | Mortgages, Investments, Banking, Pensions, Personal Loans, Financial Plannin, Insurance, Sharedealing, Travel services. |
| Nottingham Building Society | Interactive site which details their mortgage, investment and estate agency services. |
| Portman Building Society | Took over Greenwich Building Society. |
| Portsmouth Building Society | Now owned by Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society which is owned by Lloyds Bank. |
| Principality Building Society | Based in Wales. |
| Saffron Walden Herts & Essex Building Society | |
| Scarborough Building Society | |
| Scottish Building Society |
| Skipton Building Society | Has a joint venture with Winterthur Life |
| Southdown Building Society | |
| Staffordshire Building Society | Assets £1B. Committed mutual. |
| Stroud & Swindon Building Society | |
| Teachers' Building Society | |
| Tipton & Coseley Building Society | |
| West Bromwich Building Society | |
| Woolwich plc | Was a Building Society |
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