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High Street Bank

A large bank in the United Kingdom with branches spread out in many towns all over the country. It takes its name from "high street," which is a term for a main thoroughfare.

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SIR Richard Branson's Virgin Money have asked an industry veteran to lead their push to become a high-street bank.

SIR Richard Branson's Virgin Money [...]; Business IN BRIEF

High-street bank machines don't charge for debit card withdrawals, so use these instead.

YOUR money: ADVICE How not to get caught out

Metro Bank PLC was granted its licence by the Financial Services Authority in March 2010, becoming the first high-street bank to be granted one for over 150 years.

M VIYA LA BANKING REVOLUTION? Craig Donaldson is chief executive of a new bank which promises to revolutionise the High Street. He is also the son of retired publicans from Wearside and a former Royal Grammar School pupil. He talks to NEIL McKAY

The research found that consumers needing as little as PS100 could be charged over 12 times more by major high-street banks than the amount the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) allows payday lenders to charge, when borrowing over the same period.

Bank fees for unarranged overdrafts 'are punitive'

Looking at unarranged overdraft charges, the consumer group's research found that consumers needing as little as PS100 could be charged over 12 times more by major high-street banks than the amount the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) allows payday lenders to charge when borrowing over the same period.

The consumer group said unarranged overdraft borrowing charges from some high-street banks are 12-and-a-half times higher than the FCA cap if consumers borrow PS100 for one day.

Major banks 'charge more to borrow cash than payday lenders'

Today, the confidence helped high-street banks with Barclays up 59p at pounds 21.

Shares are upbeat

Jo Barnett, marketing director at Virgin One, said the Taylor Nelson Sofres survey showed the big four high-street banks were 'suffering from a fall in public confidence'.

Personal Finance: High Street banks use our money for their benefit

MANY SMEs feel that large high-street banks are unwilling to lend to them.

Regulatory changes needed so that smaller banks can hold their own against the giants; Partner at Gambit Corporate Finance Frank Holmes and Alex Griffiths, an undergraduate at the School of Management of Cardiff Metropolitan University, on why smaller lenders need a level playing field in providing finance to SMEs

WHEN Ross and Julie Laird, from Edinburgh, wanted a savings account with a good return, they side-stepped the big high-street banks.

RECORD money: CASE STUDY

BRITAIN'S top high-street banks were shamed in a Competition Commission report yesterday, after it emerged that Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and HSBC have been overcharging small business customers and had formed a monopoly.