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Image:Yorkshire bank.gif Yorkshire Bank is a British regional retail bank, mainly operating in Northern England. Since 1990 it has been part of the National Australia Bank group.

[edit] History

• 1859: Colonel Edward Akroyd establishes Yorkshire Bank (YB) in Halifax, West Yorkshire as a philanthropic organization aimed at providing a means of saving for the working classes. YB becomes known as Yorkshire Penny Bank.
• 1911: The major clearing banks carry out a financial reconstruction and establish a consortium.
• 1990: National Australia Bank Group acquires the bank from its owners. The vendors are National Westminster Bank (40%), Barclays Bank (32%), Lloyds Bank (20%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (8%).
• 2005: National Australia Bank announce their intention to merge Yorkshire Bank with their Scottish subsidiary, Clydesdale Bank.

Commercial banks in the United Kingdom

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Abbey | Adam and Company | Airdrie Savings Bank | Alliance & Leicester | Allied Irish Bank (GB) | Bank of Ireland | Bank of Scotland | Barclays | Birmingham Midshires | Bradford and Bingley | Bristol and West | Cahoot | Cheltenham and Gloucester | Clydesdale | Co-operative Bank | Coutts & Co | Egg | First Direct | First Trust Bank | Halifax | Harrods Bank | HSBC | Intelligent Finance | Islamic Bank of Britain | Julian Hodge Bank | Lloyds TSB | National Savings and Investments | NatWest | Northern Bank | Northern Rock | Royal Bank of Scotland | Sainsbury's Bank | Standard Chartered Bank | Tesco Personal Finance | The Woolwich | Ulster Bank | Yorkshire Bank

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[edit] External links

• Yorkshire Bank