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  2. Black Horse (company) - Wikipedia

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    Black Horse Limited is a motor finance company based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in July 2001, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, but its origins can be traced back to 1922.

  3. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    The history of banking began with the first prototype banks, that is, the merchants of the world, who gave grain loans to farmers and traders who carried goods between cities. This was around 2000 BC in Assyria, India and Sumer. Later, in ancient Greece and during the Roman Empire, lenders based in temples gave loans, while accepting deposits ...

  4. Lloyds Bank plc v Independent Insurance Co Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Lloyds Bank were requested by their customer to make an electronic transfer of funds to the Independent Insurance Co Ltd. The bank mistakenly believed that a recent deposit into the customer's account had cleared, and on that basis made the requested transfer.

  5. Baker Street robbery - Wikipedia

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    Baker Street robbery. Coordinates: 51°31′20.3″N 0°9′28.2″W. Route the burglars took into the vault. The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up ...

  6. Lloyds Bank Limited v Bundy - Wikipedia

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    Lloyds Bank Ltd v Bundy is a decision of the English Court of Appeal in English contract law, on undue influence. One of the three judges hearing the case, Lord Denning MR advanced the argument that under English law, all impairments of autonomy could be collected under a single principle of " inequality of bargaining power ."

  7. Online banking - Wikipedia

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    Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website or mobile app. Since the early 2000s this has become the most common way that customers access their bank accounts.

  8. Bank of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca na h-Alba) is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is part of the Lloyds Banking Group. The bank was established by the Parliament of Scotland in 1695 to develop Scotland's trade with other countries, and aimed to create a stable banking system in the Kingdom of Scotland .

  9. Halifax (bank) - Wikipedia

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    Halifax (previously known as Halifax Building Society and colloquially known as The Halifax) is a British banking brand operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group . It is named after the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, where it was founded as a building society in 1853.