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		<title>Bonuses or no bonuses, UK taxpayers to lose out according to RBOS chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Royal Bank of Scotland its chief executive, Stephen Hester UK Taxpayers will lose out if the bank unable to pay bonuses, in what some could construe as a veiled threat o what could happen if the intense public scrutiny faced by the bailed-out bank is not eased and bonus hungry staff continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compare the best banks for the best interest rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t that long ago that if you went to your bank of building society looking to earn some interest on your deposit account, all you would get was a blank expression. A sign that things are getting better in the UK economy in general and banks and building societies in particular is that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALCB Win Moneyfacts Business Banking Awards &#8211; Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure to announce that Alliance &#38; Leicester have won the Business Moneyfacts Award for Best Overall Business Bank and Best Business Current Account provider, yet again.
Moneyfacts &#8211; who are they?
Moneyfacts is the leading independent financial information provider in the UK. Since 1988, we&#8217;ve been providing impartial information to financial services professionals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get used to it: Santander is here to stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some might say deservedly, buts some of Britain’s best known banking brands will be removed from the UK&#8217;s high street, on news that Santander, the Spanish bank who first set foot in the UK market with the purchase of Abbey and later acquired both Alliance &#38; Leicester as well as the savings branch of Bradford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest for savers slashed to just 0.1%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks and buildings societies have silently slashed savings rates over the holidays, with many accounts returning a penny in the pound or 0.1% interest.
Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Abbey, Barclays, Alliance and Leicester, NatWest, Nationwide and Royal Bank of Scotland all reduced their rates on variable interest accounts.
Egg and Yorkshire Building Society have withdrawn fixed rate offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks pledge to help small businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks have promised to try and make life easier for small businesses by agreeing a ‘statement of principles’ brokered by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson.
Businesses say they are having problems arranging loans and overdrafts despite the billions of pounds the government has injected in to the economy as banks have screwed down lending criteria.
Following the meeting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savings At Risk As Banks Topple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savers with large amounts of cash on deposit should take action now to protect their money as the credit crunch threatens to sink more banks.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) underwrites a £35,000 per person per bank repayment guarantee in the event of a crisis.
On the face of it, the FSCS pays out if savers [...]]]></description>
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