Latest Abbey National News: Finextra Research

Abbey aims for armchair bankers

The UK's Abbey National has switched on an interactive television banking service for subscribers to the ONdigital and NTL networks.

07 November 2000

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Three tenners and a cappucino, darling

Models on Vespa scooters, Pavarotti lookalikes and free coffee were part of the entertainment planned by Abbey National and Costa Coffee to celebrate the opening of their latest refurbished bank branch-cum-coffeeshop on the Kings Road, Chelsea.

23 October 2000

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Abbey launches online mortgage service

The UK's Abbey National has launched an interactive Mortgage Introducer Internet Service for third party brokers.

13 October 2000

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Abbey National switches on digital TV banking service

Abbey National has launched a new banking channel on Open the interactive TV service on BSkyB.

09 August 2000

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Abbey opens first Costa Coffee branch

The first branch of Abbey National with a Costa Coffee cafe inside it opens for business today. Customers visiting Abbey National's branch in Barnet High Street, North London, will find a completely refurbished branch, with a 40 seat cafe serving Italian coffees and food to all paying customers who enter the premises.

01 August 2000

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Abbey selects Documentum knowledge management system

Abbey National is to use Documentum's 4i eBusiness Edition content management software to capture and share intellectual assets among its 4000 banking staff. The bank says it will use the platform to record best practices within the group and leverage the information gained for enterprise-wide distribution.

01 August 2000

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Brief: Abbey imaging deal is largest UK win for Spescom

The UK's Abbey National has selected Spescom KMS' eB software to provide an integrated document imaging solution to several of its departments. The contract is Spescom's largest UK win for eB since its commercial release earlier this year.

26 July 2000

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Abbey National to end ATM charges

The UK's Abbey National is to shelve ATM charges for customers and non-customers from 1 January 2001. Abbey follows the Halifax which also recently announced that it would not be introducing fees for cash machine withdrawals.

23 June 2000

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