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HBOS plc
Sign in to savethumb|right|275px|Group headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh thumb|275px|HBOS Office at Trinity Road, Halifax thumb|275px|Halifax offices in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire|Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire thumb|275px|HBOS offices in Lovell Park, [[Leeds, formerly those of the Leeds Permanent Building Society before its takeover by the Halifax Building Society]] HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009. It was the holding company for Bank of Scotland plc, which operated the Bank of Scot
Key facts
- Company.name
- HBOS plc
- Company.logo
- 200px
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Lloyds TSB
- Company.defunct
- 2009
- Company.location
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Registered office) Halifax, England, UK (Head Office)
- Company.key_people
- James Crosby & Andy Hornby (former Chief Executives)Lord Stevenson of Coddenham (chairman)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.industry
- Finance and insurance
- Company.products
- Financial services
- Company.num_employees
- 72,000
- Company.parent
- Lloyds Banking Group
- Company.subsid
- Bank of Scotland plc, HBOS Australia, HBOS Insurance & Investment Group
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- History
- HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006
- 2008 short selling and credit crunch
- Acquisition by Lloyds TSB
- Bailout
- Investigation
- Advertising
- Controversies
- Links to the arms trade
- Mortgage fraud
- Bank of Wales
- HBOS bad loans
- Reading branch fraud and Operation Hornet
- Operations
- Bank of Scotland plc
- United Kingdom
- International
- HBOS Australia
- HBOS Insurance and Investment Group Limited
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|275px|Group headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh thumb|275px|HBOS Office at Trinity Road, Halifax thumb|275px|Halifax offices in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire|Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire thumb|275px|HBOS offices in Lovell Park, [[Leeds, formerly those of the Leeds Permanent Building Society before its takeover by the Halifax Building Society]] HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009. It was the holding company for Bank of Scotland plc, which operated the Bank of Scotland and Halifax brands in the UK, as well as HBOS Australia and HBOS Insurance & Investment Group Limited, the group's insurance division.
HBOS was formed by the 2001 merger of Halifax plc and the Bank of Scotland. The formation of HBOS was heralded as creating a fifth force in British banking as it created a company of comparable size and stature to the established Big Four UK retail banks. It was also the UK's largest mortgage lender. The HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 saw the transfer of Halifax plc and Capital Bank plc to the Bank of Scotland, which had by then become a registered public limited company, Bank of Scotland plc.
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