• National Girobank was a British public sector financial institution run by the General Post Office that opened for business in October 1968. It was initially...
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  • GiroBank may refer to: Girobank, a former UK bank GiroBank, a former Danish bank (1991-1995) which through several mergers is now part of Danske Bank This...
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  • "TSB". GIR 0AA is a postcode created for Girobank in Bootle. It remained in use by its successors when Girobank was taken over by Alliance & Leicester and...
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    allocated NP1–NP8. NPT lasted until the end of 1984 when it was recoded NP9. Girobank's GIR 0AA was the last domestic postcode with a fully alphabetical outward...
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  • another instigated by the payer Girobank, a state owned and later privatised financial institution in the UK GiroBank, a Danish bank (1991–1995) which...
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    Kingdom, the non-conforming postal code GIR 0AA was used for the National Girobank until its closure in 2003. A non-geographic series of postcodes, starting...
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    Wigan Athletic F.C.; also in Wigan are The Tote, Shearings Holidays and Girobank, and R&R Ice Cream (former Richmond Foods) make De Roma ice cream. Contitech...
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    Florida. Girobank was the mortgage holder of the hotel. By 2017, Plaza Hotel Management owed Girobank NAf 26 million (~US$14 million). Girobank went to...
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    the UK's tallest building, and the creations of the Post Bus service and Girobank. He proposed issuing stamps without the Sovereign's head, but this met...
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    then formed West Germany. On 23 June 1948 the Deutsche Emissions- und Girobank ("German bank of issue and giro centre") of the Soviet occupation zone...
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  • Cherry Blossom Tree, a blend of suicide, murder and nuns. He won National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award for The Cherry Blossom Tree. [citation needed]...
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  • during this period, which was also complemented by the establishment of the Girobank headquarters in nearby Netherton. The site occupied by the shopping centre...
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    publicity label from 1949 Banks portal National Savings Movement National Girobank Rainbow Dance, Post Office Savings Bank film, 1936 Blythe House, London...
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  • banking became commercially available in the 1980s, first introduced by Girobank in the United Kingdom, which established a dedicated telephone banking...
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    Royal Mail), which also had responsibility for telecommunications and the Girobank). The cabinet position of Postmaster General was initially replaced by...
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    Building Society on 1 October 1985. In July 1990 the society acquired Girobank, a major provider of cash handling services to the government and large...
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  • District Bank (constituent of National Westminster Bank) National Girobank/Girobank (see Alliance & Leicester) Glyn, Mills & Co. (constituent of Williams...
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  • 72 Santander UK Formerly Alliance & Leicester (2010), itself formerly Girobank (1985) 77-00 to 77-44 Lloyds Bank and TSB Formerly Lloyds TSB (2013) and...
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    form, or physically presented to a bank in the traditional manner. Boleto Girobank Hawala Interac e-Transfer, a similar service in Canada Money order Paycheck...
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    One innovation of the Wilson government was the creation in 1968 of the Girobank, a publicly owned bank which operated via the General Post Office network:...
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    cards, key charging). The Santander Transcash system, which had been a Girobank service, enabled manual bill payment transactions, but this service was...
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  • General Manager of Liverpool-based Girobank, a national-owned bank run through the Post Office network, in 1987. Girobank was taken over by Alliance & Leicester...
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    the Post Office in 1980, and emerged as an independent business in 1981. Girobank was sold to Alliance & Leicester in 1990, and Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded...
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    in this position until 1981. In 1982 he became a personnel manager with Girobank. He has been a Justice of the Peace on the Bootle Bench since 1969. He...
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    of large office blocks housing government departments and the National Girobank provided employment, filled largely by middle-class people from outside...
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    Ghana Ghavamin Bank, Tehran, Iran Giro Commercial Bank, Nairobi, Kenya Girobank, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles Glacier Bancorp, Kalispell, United States...
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    General Post Office, created the National Giro in 1968 (privatized as Girobank and acquired by Alliance & Leicester in 1989). Many other countries adopted...
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  • same time the government launched a new banking service, the National Girobank. In 1976 the Banking Act increased the supervisory role of the Bank of...
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  • savings bank founded on 3 March 1857 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It merged with GiroBank under the name BG Bank in 1995 and has later been absorbed by Danske Bank...
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  • Computer Centre (1996) Dairy Crest (1996) East Midlands Airport (1993) Girobank (1990) Humberside Airport (1999 – 82%) Kingston Communications (1999, 2007)...
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