High Street Bank

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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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UK Finance said Isa cash deposits across the high-street banks saw a slight increase on the previous month to coincide with the end of the tax year.

Credit card spending jumps by nearly 10%

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'

WHEN Ross and Julie Laird, from Edinburgh, wanted a savings account with a good return, they side-stepped the big high-street banks. Instead, company director Ross and whisky industry worker Julie, both 36, stashed their cash with Anglo Irish Bank.

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.

SUZY in the CITY: Competition Commission report

Today, the confidence helped high-street banks with Barclays up 59p at pounds 21.06, Lloyds TSB up 8p at 708p, and Royal Bank of Scotland ahead 24p at pounds 16.54.

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

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'

Communities Minister Jeff Cuthbert has targeted expansion of the credit union movement as an alternative to high-street banks and high-interest payday loan merchants.

Credit union opens city centre office; WALES newsbulletin

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