140 Results from "Abbey National"
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The Sunday Times used a 'blagger' to trick an Abbey National call centre worker into handing over the bank account details of then chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown, according to the Guardian.
11 July 2011
Santander UK is to create 600 new jobs in its branches and call centres as it continues to win market share.
29 July 2010
Spain's Banco Santander is reaping the benefits of a mammoth IT integration programme at its UK banking subsidiaries Abbey National, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley which have seen profits for the first nine months jump by a third to EUR1.3 billion.
28 October 2009
UK consumer group Which? has accused Abbey and Halifax of employing poor online security measures, leaving customers vulnerable to fraud.
27 August 2009
Spain's Banco Santander has inked a two-year, EUR100 million deal with technology consultancy Accenture as it looks to integrate the various IT systems recently inherited through a spate of acquisitions.
25 March 2009
Customers of UK Internet bank cahoot were locked out of their accounts for over a day following a power cut in Spain, home of parent company Banco Santander.
16 October 2008
Citigroup is targeting $3 billion of consolidation synergies from its acquisition of debt-hit bank Wachovia under a loss-sharing deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
29 September 2008
Two former workers at an Abbey branch in London managed to steal more than £120,000 from cash machines by stuffing wads of notes down their trousers.
29 August 2008
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is the financial institution most targeted by phishing fraudsters, according to anti-spam outfit Clearmymail which is reporting a quadrupling in the number of spam attacks aimed at UK Internet users.
07 August 2008
Spain's Banco Santander expects to save £180 million a year from cutting jobs and centralising IT systems as it merges the UK's Abbey with newly-acquired high street rival Alliance & Leicester.
14 July 2008
The UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live.
27 May 2008
Despite continuing security concerns, two thirds of customers do not want their bank to provide chip and PIN-style authentication devices, according to UK high street bank Abbey.
25 March 2008
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