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14.08.2007
Societies are stars of gloomy banking sector says KPMG
Details of the 2007 KPMG Building Societies Database.


 
16.04.2007
Ten Years After
April 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the first of the five demutualisations which occurred in the spring, summer and autumn of 1997.


 
07.03.2007
Building Societies Adapt and Thrive
What is the difference between a bank and a building society? No, it isn’t a dodgy joke. The answer is that while banks have to squeeze every last drop of profit out of their customers to pay their shareholders, building societies try to minimise the profit they make.


 
05.03.2007
A retrospective over the last 20 years
Article published in Financial Adviser


 
18.07.2006
Societies in Society – launch of 2nd CSR report
Last month, the BSA launched its second report into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the building society sector. The report, Societies in Society, is one of the few pieces of research to examine CSR activity across a whole sector, rather than the activity of an individual firm.


 
18.07.2006
A thriving building society sector
Building societies continue to thrive, according to recently released FSA statistics on activity in the sector in 2005.


 
10.03.2006
WINDFALLS, SHORTFALLS AND BRANCH CLOSURES
Article for Mortgage Finance Gazette


 
01.10.2005
Parliamentary Inquiry into the True Cost of Demutualisation
The Parliamentary All-Party Group for Building Societies and Financial Mutuals has agreed to conduct a short inquiry into the true cost of demutualisation.


 
02.07.2005
Mutuality - Where are we now?
It is ten years since Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society was taken over by (the then) Lloyds Bank PLC in August 1995. With the first demutualisation taking place with Abbey National in 1989, post ’95 saw a wave of flotations, with eight more building societies taking the decision to become a plc.


 
02.07.2005
Mutuality - Where are we now?
It is ten years since Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society was taken over by (the then) Lloyds Bank PLC in August 1995. With the first demutualisation taking place with Abbey National in 1989, post ’95 saw a wave of flotations, with eight more building societies taking the decision to become a plc.


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