英国联合莱斯特银行-详解.docxVIP

? ? ? ? ? 英国联合莱斯特银行-详解 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 本条目包含过多不是中文的内容，欢迎协助翻译。 若已有相当内容译为中文，可迳自去除本模板。 英国联合莱斯特银行（Alliance Leicester）：英国最大银行之一 英国联合莱斯特银行官方网站网址:http://www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/ 目录 1 英国联合莱斯特银行简介 2 历史 3 组织结构 英国联合莱斯特银行简介 英国联合莱斯特银行是一家抵押贷款提供商，成立于1997。 Alliance Leicester plc (LSE: AL.) is a British bank, formerly a building society. It was formed in 1997 by the flotation of the former Alliance Leicester Building Society on the London Stock Exchange. It is listed on the FTSE 100. Its headquarters are in Carlton Park, a business park in Narborough, south of Leicester in England. The group also has premises in Bootle, Manchester, Wigan, Leeds, Ashford and Belfast, and all its contact centres are UK based. 历史 The former building society was formed by the merger of the Alliance Building Society (originally based in and called the Brighton Sussex) and the Leicester Building Society on October 1, 1985 [1]. In 1990, the society acquired Girobank, a major provider of cash-handling services to the government and large companies and current accounts, primarily to low-income individuals, from the Post Office. With other large building societies such as the Halifax and Woolwich, the Alliance Leicester decided to float the society on the London Stock Exchange, generating windfall payments to members worth up to ￡5,000 each. Flotation took place on April 21, 1997, and the company entered the FTSE 100. 组织结构 The four business sectors are: 1. mortgage lending investments, 2. personal banking, 3. commercial banking 4. treasury. The Group provides general insurance, life assurance, unit trusts, personal current accounts and credit cards, asset financing and commercial lending. Its main retail business is in the United Kingdom concentrating on mortgages, current accounts, savings and personal loans. The Group is also endeavouring to expand its commercial operations through ALCB (Alliance Leicester Commercial Bank). The Groups provision of retail credit cards is throu