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Financial Services - 2008
THB Group has acquired Globesure Holdings, the insurance broker, for an initial £0.2m.
22-Dec-2008
Lupton Fawcett is to acquire the commercial and private client business of Leeds-based Fox Hayes, with the transfer of 38 staff.
22-Dec-2008
GLG Partners has bought the UK asset management business of Societe Generale for less than £67m, including up to 128 London-based staff.
22-Dec-2008
Swinton has acquired Equity, the chain of 91 insurance brokers with 650 staff, from Insurance Australia Group for £50m, while IAG's Hastings Direct and Advantage operations have been sold to management for £23m.
19-Dec-2008
Standard Life is to shed 75 jobs in Edinburgh and Bournemouth, as part of a change in its marketing strategy that will also involve the creation of 38 management jobs in Edinburgh.
17-Dec-2008
AWD Home Finance, the Leicester-based mortgage and insurance firm with 200 staff, has undergone a management buy-out and will change its name back to Carrington Carr.
17-Dec-2008
Serco is to acquire InfoVision Group, the Indian business process outsourcing firm with 10,000 staff, for an initial £13m.
12-Dec-2008
Experian has acquired SearchAmerica, the US provider of payment prediction data, for £60m.
11-Dec-2008
Source42 has announced the creation of more than 30 jobs at its procurement services business in Cwmbran, having secured an investment package from HSBC, Finance Wales and the Welsh Assembly.
11-Dec-2008
Kitson Hutchings is to relocate its two Torquay law offices to a larger site at the Edginswell Business Park in 2010.
10-Dec-2008
Giles Insurance has bought Arnott Commercial Insurance Services and Arnott Marine of Durham, with the transfer of 23 staff.
09-Dec-2008
TDX Group is planning to expand the workforce at its Nottingham-based debt services business from 130 to 250 over the next two years, having secured a £28m investment from the sale of a 40% stake to Investcorp Technology Partners.
09-Dec-2008
Rutherford Wilkinson, the Tyneside-based firm of 16 independent financial advisers, has been acquired by the Perspective Financial Group for undisclosed terms.
02-Dec-2008
HSBC has submitted plans to build a £300m 325,000 sq ft data centre at the Vangarde business park in York, with the creation of about 100 jobs.
02-Dec-2008
BGL Group is to recruit 60 extra staff at its Fusion insurance call centres in Peterlee and Sunderland over the next few months.
26-Nov-2008
Nomura is considering plans to relocate 2,500 former Lehman Brothers staff to a new 250,000 sq ft office in the City of London, having appointed Drivers Jonas to review its property.
25-Nov-2008
Brightside is to acquire the policy book and new business of the eVan insurance brand from Southern Rock Insurance for an initial £3.3m, in order to expand its E Insurance subsidiary.
24-Nov-2008
Hertford International Group is to acquire Cheque Exchange, the cheque cashing and money remittance firm with 60 staff, from Provident Financial for £3m.
21-Nov-2008
Bradford & Bingley is planning to expand the workforce in its mortgage arrears division from 200 to 400 next year, with many of the staff transferring from other departments.
21-Nov-2008
TransGlobal Payment Solutions (TPS) has secured a £1m investment from Alliance Fund Managers and Enterprise Ventures to expand its foreign exchange and payment services business across the country.
20-Nov-2008
Swinton is planning to expand the 200-strong workforce at its insurance call centre in Norwich with a further 60 jobs by January.
20-Nov-2008
In House Group is to acquire a 75% stake in Breatheasy Finance, the home financing firm, for £0.2m.
19-Nov-2008
Grant Thornton is to relocate up to 60 staff from its accountancy office in Nottingham to a new office on Regent Road in Leicester by next February.
18-Nov-2008
Kroll has sold its London-based European corporate advisory business to a management buy-out operating under the name of Zolfo Cooper.
17-Nov-2008
Standard Chartered is to acquire Cazenove Asia, the corporate finance and institutional brokerage business with offices in Hong Kong, London, Singapore, China and the US, from JPMorgan Cazenove.
14-Nov-2008
Friends Provident is to relocate its customer services, IT and other support functions from the Manchester Express building to Spring Gardens by the end of next year, but up to 280 of the 465 jobs could be lost.
14-Nov-2008
Handelsbanken is to open a commercial services and personal banking office at the Acorn Business Park in Stockport by the end of the month.
14-Nov-2008
Network Data is to acquire Mortgage Broking Services, the Manchester-based mortgage broker, from Manchester Building Society for £2.5m.
13-Nov-2008
Creditsafe is to relocate up to 100 jobs from its Marketsafe office in Bridgend to its site in Caerphilly, in response to the economic downturn.
12-Nov-2008
CBG has raised £1.6m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based insurance broking and financial services business.
10-Nov-2008
First Rand Bank of South Africa is to set up a 26,000 sq ft office at the 20 Gracechurch Street scheme in the City of London, which is due for completion next October.
10-Nov-2008
Redmayne-Bentley has acquired the remaining Teathers private client stockbroking business from the administrators of Landsbanki Securities for undisclosed terms.
10-Nov-2008
Barclays Bank has acquired the Italian residential mortgage business of Macquarie Bank, including operational support functions and staff.
07-Nov-2008
Burchell Edwards has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing 140 jobs at its Derby-based chain of 16 estate agency branches.
04-Nov-2008
Skipton Building Society is to merge with the Scarborough Building Society to create a combined group with 860,000 members and assets of £16bn.
04-Nov-2008
Brewin Dolphin is to set up an 11,000 sq ft office for its Stocktrade broking division at 40 Princes Street in Edinburgh.
04-Nov-2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers is said to be planning to set up a 28,000 sq ft office at the 141 Bothwell Street scheme in Glasgow.
03-Nov-2008
Shore Capital is planning to open an investment management office in Edinburgh, using a team from Landsbanki Securities.
03-Nov-2008
Griffin Group is to acquire Alexander David Holdings, the stockbroker, in a £4.8m reverse takeover, and will then change its name to Alexander David Securities Group.
31-Oct-2008
Lloyd's Register is planning to relocate its London-based marine operation to the Maritime Centre of Excellence development at the University of Southampton, with the creation of up to 400 jobs.
30-Oct-2008
Charles Taylor Consulting is to acquire Westminster Motor Insurance Association, the provider of motor insurance to taxi drivers that is now closed to new business, from Santam for a nominal sum.
29-Oct-2008
Porterbrook Leasing, the owner of passenger rail rolling stock, is to be sold by Abbey National to a consortium led by Deutsche Bank for an estimated £1.4bn.
28-Oct-2008
Lawrence Scoffield, the Leeds-based financial planning and insurance firm, has undergone a management buy-out, and plans to increase its staff from 17 to 50 over the next five years.
27-Oct-2008
Autonet Insurance is to relocate its Staffordshire-based vehicle insurance call centre to a new site in Burslem next June, and hopes to create 250 new jobs over the next three years.
24-Oct-2008
Abbey Protection is to acquire Accountax, the Milton Keynes-based accountancy, tax and employment law consultancy with 40 staff, for an initial £4.4m.
23-Oct-2008
Evolution Group is to acquire the investment management business of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of about 40 staff to its London office.
22-Oct-2008
LaSalle Investment Management is to set up a 20,000 sq ft office at 20 Gresham Street in London EC2.
21-Oct-2008
HM Revenue & Customs is to expand its human resources service centre at Hilary House in York, with the creation of up to 60 jobs.
20-Oct-2008
Oval has acquired Powell Insurance, the Liverpool-based insurance broker with 40 staff, for undisclosed terms.
17-Oct-2008
Rathbone Brothers has sold its offshore trust operations in Jersey to Hawksford Holdings for an initial £23m.
16-Oct-2008
Experian is to sell its card processing and business process outsourcing operations in France to Advent International and La Poste respectively, for a total £157m.
16-Oct-2008
Bibby Financial Services has secured a new £340m funding facility to support the expansion of its factoring business, which includes a nationwide network of 12 regional offices.
14-Oct-2008
Student Loans Company is looking to recruit a further 200 customer services staff and student finance assessors at its site in Darlington.
14-Oct-2008
Talaris, the cash handling firm, is to set up a new 11,000 sq ft headquarters at Chineham Park in Basingstoke.
14-Oct-2008
HSBC is to set up an 18,750 sq ft banking services office at 141 Bothwell Street in Glasgow early next year.
10-Oct-2008
Amlin is to acquire Anglo French Underwriters, the French underwriting agency with 40 staff, from 21 Centrale Partners.
08-Oct-2008
Hanley Economic Building Society is to set up a new £1.8m head office at the Festival Court scheme in Etruria Valley, Staffordshire.
08-Oct-2008
IFG Group has acquired Pensco and Nameridge, two Irish pensions companies, for £10m.
07-Oct-2008
Scott Lister Solicitors of Shrewsbury has merged with Linder Myers Solicitors, the Manchester-based law firm with more than 70 fee earners.
07-Oct-2008
Shoosmiths, the law firm, is planning to open a mortgage recovery office in Manchester in January.
06-Oct-2008
Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised with the government acquiring its £50bn mortgages and loans, while its £20bn savings business and branches will be acquired by Santander of Spain.
30-Sep-2008
Cobra Holdings has acquired Opal Mortgage Life & Pensions, the London-based independent financial adviser, for up to £0.5m.
30-Sep-2008
Winkworth Sherwood, the law firm, is setting up a new 40,000 sq ft office at Minerva House in Southwark, London.
29-Sep-2008
IG Group is to acquire an 87% stake in FXOnline, the Japanese foreign exchange trading firm with 45 staff, for £112m.
25-Sep-2008
Griffiths & Armour is to sell its financial services division to Charles Stanley, with the transfer of 35 Liverpool-based staff.
25-Sep-2008
Henderson Insurance Brokers is to recruit 30 new staff to work in its corporate insurance business.
25-Sep-2008
Pinsent Masons, the law firm, is to set up a new office on the third floor of the 63,000 sq ft Quay 2 complex at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh.
24-Sep-2008
Lehman Brothers has sold its equities and investment banking operations out of administration to Nomura for a nominal sum, which could secure the future of 2,000 jobs in London.
24-Sep-2008
Beazley is to acquire Momentum Underwriting Management, the insurance agency, for up to £21m.
23-Sep-2008
Alliance Trust is to relocate up to 300 Dundee-based staff to a new 50,000 sq ft headquarters being built at West Marketgait by spring 2009.
22-Sep-2008
Nasdaq OMX is planning to set up an investment exchange and listings venue for initial public offerings in London.
22-Sep-2008
Knight Frank has been appointed by Metro Bank to find suitable locations to open four bank branches in London by 2009, and the chain could eventually expand to 200 outlets.
22-Sep-2008
Smith & Williamson is increasing the headcount at its new investment management office in Glasgow from 35 to 90.
19-Sep-2008
RSA Insurance is considering plans to relocate its headquarters to Ireland, for tax reasons.
18-Sep-2008
Prudential is considering plans to relocate its headquarters to either Ireland or the Netherlands.
18-Sep-2008
Lloyds TSB is to acquire HBOS for £12bn, which could lead to the loss of up to 40,000 jobs from the 139,000 combined workforce.
18-Sep-2008
Barclays is to acquire PT Bank Akita, the Indonesian bank with ten branches.
18-Sep-2008
Barclays has agreed to acquire the North American investment banking and capital markets operations of Lehman Brothers, including the New York headquarters and two data centres.
18-Sep-2008
Randall & Quilter has acquired Continuum Holdings, the holding company for the London-based KMS insurance run-off services business, for £1.8m.
17-Sep-2008
Charles Taylor Consulting has acquired Santam Europe, the Irish motor and property insurance firm that is now closed to new business.
17-Sep-2008
The Insolvency Service is to relocate its Manchester office to a 20,000 sq ft unit at Three Piccadilly Place.
17-Sep-2008
Aberdeen Asset Management has sold part of its private equity business to a management buy-out operating under the name of Spirit Capital.
17-Sep-2008
HSBC is considering a site at Monks Cross in York for the development of a new credit card data processing centre, which could create up to 200 jobs.
17-Sep-2008
Standard Life is to acquire Vebnet, the employee benefits company with 78 staff and offices in Edinburgh and London, for £24m.
17-Sep-2008
Begbies Traynor has raised £13m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its corporate insolvency practice.
16-Sep-2008
DataCash Group has acquired EasyDebit, the German payment services provider, for an initial £2.5m.
11-Sep-2008
Newcastle Building Society is planning to expand its 1,300-strong workforce with 500 new jobs by 2012, with 200 being recruited by the end of this year.
11-Sep-2008
HM Revenue & Customs is creating 350 jobs for a new contact centre at Lillyhall in Cumbria, and a further 50 jobs will be secured at Blencathra House in Whitehaven.
10-Sep-2008
Nationwide Building Society is to merge with the Derbyshire Building Society, which has 50 branches and 485,000 members, and the Cheshire Building Society, which has 45 branches and 440,000 members.
09-Sep-2008
Ecclesiastical Insurance is planning to relocate 650 staff to a new headquarters that will be built at Southgate Moorings in Gloucester.
09-Sep-2008
Crosby Asset Management is to sell the former Forsyth Partners international funds research and ratings business to Old Broad Street Research for a nominal initial sum.
05-Sep-2008
Withy King has merged with Marshall & Galpin of Oxford to create a combined law firm with 340 staff.
04-Sep-2008
The Fairtrade Foundation is setting up a 16,232 sq ft headquarters at Ibex House in the City of London.
02-Sep-2008
McDermott, Will & Emery, the US law firm, is considering plans to relocate its London office to an 80,000 sq ft unit at 1 Finsbury Circus.
02-Sep-2008
Dresdner Bank is to be sold by Allianz to Commerzbank for £7.9bn, which could lead to the loss of up to 1,000 jobs in London.
01-Sep-2008
King & Spalding, the US law firm, is to set up a 34,000 sq ft office at 125 Old Broad Street in the City of London.
01-Sep-2008
Liverpool Victoria is to acquire Highway Insurance, the Brentwood-based motor insurer, for £150m.
01-Sep-2008
Henderson Group is to relocate the headquarters of its investment management business to Ireland for tax reasons, at a cost of £4.5m.
01-Sep-2008
Co-operative Group is considering plans to open mini-banks in up to 125 food stores, with the creation of 250 jobs, depending on the success of a £2.5m trial.
28-Aug-2008
Clydesdale Bank is to set up a 15,630 sq ft office at Stockland's 33 Gracechurch Street scheme in the City of London.
27-Aug-2008
HSBC is creating 20 jobs at a new bank branch on Royal Avenue in Belfast, and is now planning further expansion for its chain of six branches in Northern Ireland over the next three years.
25-Aug-2008
Benfield, the London-listed reinsurance group, is to be acquired by Aon of the US for £844m.
25-Aug-2008
Smith Cooper has acquired Andersons KBS, the Birmingham-based accountancy firm with about 12 staff.
21-Aug-2008
Carterbar has acquired Graeme Watson Independent Financial Advisers of Chopwell, and is now seeking further acquisitions in Tyne & Wear.
20-Aug-2008
Nationwide is planning to set up a savings business in Ireland, in order to provide services by post, phone and online and to gain access to European Central Bank funding.
19-Aug-2008
Fried Frank, the US law firm, is looking to relocate its London office by 2010, having appointed Knight Frank to find a suitable 45,000 sq ft location.
19-Aug-2008
Brit Insurance is considering plans to relocate its head office to a country with preferable tax rates, having appointed Ernst & Young to review the options.
18-Aug-2008
Barclaycard is seeking a further 120 customer services and sales staff for its call centre at Teesdale on Teesside.
14-Aug-2008
Selby District Council and UK Coal are in discussions with an unnamed financial institution about the possibility of setting up an information distribution centre at the former Wistow Mine site, with the creation of about 200 jobs.
14-Aug-2008
TIAA-CREF, the US pension fund, is to set up an office in London to invest in European property, with the creation of up to six jobs over the next 18 months.
12-Aug-2008
BDO Stoy Hayward is to relocate its Manchester office to a 35,000 sq ft building at Hardman Street in Spinningfields, which is due for completion this autumn.
12-Aug-2008
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, the US law firm, is to set up an 80,000 sq ft office at 107 Cheapside in London.
08-Aug-2008
Hallidays is to relocate its Manchester-based accountancy business and 65 staff to a new £2.5m headquarters in Stockport this autumn.
07-Aug-2008
Barclays Bank is to sell Barclays Life Assurance Company to Swiss Reinsurance for £753m, including 760,000 life insurance policies, pension policies and annuity contracts.
06-Aug-2008
McGrigors has acquired the commercial litigation and real estate divisions of London Reid Minty, with the transfer of 18 staff.
06-Aug-2008
JP Morgan, the investment bank, is to set up a new London headquarters at Canary Wharf, having dropped plans to take a 90,000 sq ft office at St Alphage House in the City.
04-Aug-2008
Wyatt Group has acquired TEBC, the employee benefits consultancy, for an initial £0.15m.
01-Aug-2008
Allied Irish Bank is to relocate its Manchester office to the Peel Court Chambers scheme in the Spinningfields district.
01-Aug-2008
Tesco is to take full control of Tesco Personal Finance with the £950m acquisition of a 50% stake from Royal Bank of Scotland.
30-Jul-2008
Edward Robinson & Co has acquired Westmore Brennand of Chester, creating a combined accountancy group with five partners and 19 fee earners.
24-Jul-2008
Barclays Commercial Bank is to relocate about 1,000 staff to a 98,000 sq ft office at the Snowhill development in central Birmingham by the end of 2009.
22-Jul-2008
Barclays Bank is to consider options to improve its Wimborne Road office in Poole, having dropped plans to relocate hundreds of staff to a new development on West Quay Road.
21-Jul-2008
Greystone Financial Services has acquired Roger Harris & Co, the Leicestershire-based wealth management firm, for an estimated £3m.
15-Jul-2008
Alliance & Leicester, the bank with 7,300 staff and 254 branches, is to be acquired by Santander of Spain for £1.3bn, and the business will be merged with Santander's chain of 705 Abbey branches.
15-Jul-2008
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is to relocate its London-based law firm and about 57 staff from the Barbican to a 25,000 sq ft office at Bishops Square in Spitalfields in August.
10-Jul-2008
Admiral is to create a further 100 jobs at its motor insurance office in Cardiff by the end of the year.
10-Jul-2008
International Asset Management, the London-based hedge funds firm with 60 staff, is to undergo a management buy-out from Fortis.
10-Jul-2008
Citi is to expand its markets and banking operation in Belfast with the creation of 145 jobs, and will occupy two of the new Gateway Office Buildings in the Titanic Quarter.
08-Jul-2008
Bond Pearce, the law firm, is to relocate 65 staff from Exeter to Plymouth by October, and aims to expand its nationwide workforce from 650 to 1,000 by 2011.
08-Jul-2008
Assurant Solutions is looking to recruit an unspecified number of administrative, business development and telemarketing staff at its new insurance office in York.
04-Jul-2008
Alliance & Leicester has won approval for the £20m redevelopment of the former Girobank headquarters in Bootle over the next three years, in order to improve facilities for almost 2,000 business banking and call centre staff.
02-Jul-2008
Martin Aitken & Co has acquired AS Fisher & Co for undisclosed terms, creating a combined Glasgow-based accountancy firm with more than 70 staff.
30-Jun-2008
Swinton is to create 50 new technical, administrative and customer service jobs at its internet insurance operation in Norwich.
27-Jun-2008
Admiral Insurance is to set up a new office at the Langstone Business Park in Newport, South Wales, this autumn, and the initial 90 staff should rise to about 450 over the next three years.
26-Jun-2008
AccuRead is looking to create about 100 jobs at its new debt management division, and is also preparing to relocate its 300 head office staff to a 30,000 sq ft unit at the Cobalt Business Park on North Tyneside in November.
26-Jun-2008
Daiwa SMBC, the Japanese investment bank, is planning to set up a derivatives operation with 200 staff in London and Tokyo.
25-Jun-2008
Barclays Bank is creating 85 jobs at a new financial planning call centre at Doxford International in Sunderland.
25-Jun-2008
Grahame Stowe Bateson has acquired Robert Moore Culleton, the Leeds-based law firm with six staff.
24-Jun-2008
Baker Tilly is to set up a 17,000 sq ft office at the Spinningfields development in Manchester, and will relocate from Lincoln Square by the end of the year.
24-Jun-2008
Reflex Mortgage Solutions is planning to create more than 40 jobs at its call centre in Stockton over the next year.
23-Jun-2008
HSBC is to expand its customer services call centre in Newport, South Wales, with the creation of 250 jobs.
20-Jun-2008
HBOS is to set up a 4,300 sq ft administrative office at the Teesdale Business Park in Stockton.
20-Jun-2008
Paymentshield is to close its insurance office in Edinburgh and relocate staff to sites in Southport and London, in order to integrate support functions with parent company Towergate.
20-Jun-2008
STM Group is to acquire St George Financial Services, the Jersey-based corporate and trustee service provider, for up to £0.6m.
19-Jun-2008
Mincoffs is to merge with Jacksons of Teesside to create a combined commercial law firm called Mincoff Jacksons with 160 staff.
19-Jun-2008
Swinton is planning to quadruple the size of its commercial insurance division over the next few years, with an increase in headcount from 200 to 400.
19-Jun-2008
Culver Holdings is to sell Culver Insurance Brokers to Protectagroup for £4m, including offices in Cardiff, Bracknell and London.
17-Jun-2008
Alan Boswell Group is to expand the Norwich-based headquarters of its insurance broking and financial advice business by setting up a new office for 50 staff in Prince of Wales Road.
17-Jun-2008
De La Rue is to sell its cash dispensing and counting equipment business to US private equity firm Carlyle Group for £360m.
17-Jun-2008
Tribal Group has acquired a 72% stake in HELM, the Northern Ireland-based management and financial consultancy with 82 staff, for £15m.
16-Jun-2008
Weightmans is said to be considering plans to relocate its Liverpool-based law firm and up to 440 staff to new premises, as the lease on its existing office expires in two years.
12-Jun-2008
Scottish & Southern Energy has agreed to acquire the Goldfish credit card call centre in Cumbernauld from Barclaycard, which should secure the future of 800 jobs.
11-Jun-2008
Sellick Partnership, the Manchester-based finance recruitment firm, is planning to expand its chain of six offices to 20 over the next five years, with an increase in staff from 65 to 210.
10-Jun-2008
Partnership Assurance, the enhanced annuities specialist, is to be acquired by private equity firm Cinven for £158m.
10-Jun-2008
Peninsula is to create a further 30 jobs at its law advice call centre in Manchester.
09-Jun-2008
Standard Chartered is planning to expand its investment banking operation by increasing the 100 staff in its acquisitions and leveraged finance team by 25-30%.
09-Jun-2008
Chelsea Building Society is in negotiations to acquire the London-based Catholic Building Society, which has one branch in Westminster and seven staff.
09-Jun-2008
Direct Group has acquired Millennium Insurance, the Midlands-based provider of insurance services to the mortgage market, for undisclosed terms.
05-Jun-2008
Ward Hadaway, the law firm, is planning to open an office in Leeds city centre in July, including eight lawyers.
05-Jun-2008
Brightside is to acquire Aust Holdings, Group Direct and Injury QED, in order to expand its insurance broking and financial services business.
04-Jun-2008
Blue Oar has acquired Astaire & Partners, the London-based stockbroker, for £1.7m.
03-Jun-2008
London Scottish Bank is to sell London Scottish Invoice Finance to Hitachi Capital for £28m, including offices in Telford and Goring.
03-Jun-2008
Ollerenshaw Solicitors has merged with Ian Burr & Co to create a combined Leamington Spa-based law firm with 35 staff.
30-May-2008
TSYS, the payment services firm, is to create 75 new jobs in York and 23 in Knaresborough this year.
30-May-2008
Debts.co.uk has acquired Relax Finance, the Doncaster-based consumer loans and mortgage broker with 106 staff, for £3m.
28-May-2008
London Capital Group Holdings has acquired FuturesBetting, the Gibraltar-based financial spread betting firm, for up to £0.4m.
28-May-2008
Buckles is to recruit 33 graduates at its Rhyl-based financial advice business this year, increasing the workforce to about 150.
28-May-2008
First Locate is to create up to 30 jobs at a new call centre for the utilities sector in Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
26-May-2008
Noble has acquired Clear Capital, the London-based equity research firm with about 30 analysts, for undisclosed terms.
26-May-2008
Bank of Ireland is planning to double its 30-strong workforce in Scotland over the next three years, in order to expand its business banking and mortgage operations.
23-May-2008
Lighthouse Group of London has merged with Bristol-based Sumus in a £13m deal that creates a combined group of 900 independent financial advisers.
22-May-2008
Pinsent Masons, the law firm, is planning to expand its staff in Manchester from 162 to 400 over the next few years, and will relocate to Spinningfields in early 2009.
21-May-2008
Bentley Jennison is to buy Wenham Major, the Birmingham-based accountancy, out of administration for undisclosed terms.
20-May-2008
Swinton has acquired Moneyway, the West Midlands-based chain of 19 insurance branches with 90 staff, from Arbuthnot for undisclosed terms.
19-May-2008
HSBC is to relocate its Liverpool-based retail and commercial departments from a 17,000 sq ft office on Dale Street to two new locations in Lord Street and the city centre.
19-May-2008
Bentley Jennison has acquired Chancery Group, the Northampton-based independent financial advisory firm.
16-May-2008
Morton Fraser is to relocate its Edinburgh-based law office to four floors of the Quartermile Two development, which is due for completion in October 2009.
15-May-2008
Fanshawe Lofts, the corporate recovery and insolvency firm with offices in Southampton and Bath, has been acquired by Begbies Traynor for undisclosed terms.
13-May-2008
Clarke Wilmott, the law firm, is seeking a suitable location for a new 70,000 sq ft office in Birmingham city centre by 2010, in order to increase staff numbers from 100 to 300.
13-May-2008
Endsleigh is planning to close 119 insurance branches with the loss of hundreds of jobs, and plans to invest in online services and call centres in Burnley, Cheltenham and Northern Ireland.
12-May-2008
HSBC is to set up a 14,000 sq ft office at Team Valley in Gateshead, employing 90 staff in its commercial, corporate and private wealth divisions.
12-May-2008
Doodson Broking Group has acquired Cardwell & Drew and JE Mottram of Wilmslow for undisclosed terms.
09-May-2008
HBJ Gateley Wareing and Holmes Hardingham are planning to merge their shipping and transport teams to create a combined group of 26 lawyers at offices in London, Edinburgh and Dubai.
08-May-2008
Aberdeen Asset Management has acquired Goodman Property Investors, its former UK property management business, from Goodman Group of Australia for an initial £89m.
07-May-2008
Standard Bank of South Africa is to relocate its London headquarters to a 107,000 sq ft office development at 20 Gresham Street, which Hermes Real Estate is due to complete in September.
05-May-2008
Manby Steward Bowdler is to merge with FBC to create a combined West Midlands law firm called FBC Manby Bowdler, with more than 300 staff.
02-May-2008
Watson Burton has merged with law firm Trevor Robinson & Co, and the Weybridge-based practice will relocate to Watson Burton's office in the City of London.
02-May-2008
Spicerhaart is expected to create up to 100 jobs at a call centre in Colchester, in order to operate an online property business in partnership with Tesco.
02-May-2008
Moneysupermarket.com is to make a decision later this year about whether to relocate its Flintshire-based price comparison business and up to 650 staff to a larger site.
30-Apr-2008
SME Insurance Services, the Leeds-based insurance broker with 60 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
29-Apr-2008
The Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland is to open a new regional base in Londonderry in October, and the 40 staff have already been recruited.
28-Apr-2008
Brown Shipley is to open a private banking office in Birmingham city centre over the next few months, having recruited a private client team from Deutsche Tilney.
28-Apr-2008
Wragge & Co, the law firm, has agreed to set up a 250,000 sq ft office at Ballymore's Snow Hill development in Birmingham in 2011, and staff will relocate from three existing sites.
25-Apr-2008
Resolution Asset Management is to create 29 new jobs in Glasgow by the end of the year, taking the total workforce to 415.
25-Apr-2008
Barclays is planning to set up a new regional commercial banking centre at the St James Court office development in Norwich, which is due for completion in late 2009.
24-Apr-2008
Chadwick Lawrence has acquired Lister Croft Solicitors to create a combined West Yorkshire-based law firm with 220 staff.
24-Apr-2008
The College of Law is planning to set up a new £5.5m training centre in Manchester city centre by next year, with the creation of about 30 jobs, while £2m will be invested at its site in Chester.
23-Apr-2008
Fuelcard Company UK of Knaresborough has acquired Abbey Fuelcards for undisclosed terms, and the Abbey Fuelcards operation in Oxford will close with the loss of up to 40 jobs.
21-Apr-2008
Swinton is to expand its insurance sales call centre in Norwich throughout the year, starting with the recruitment of 12 sales advisers and team managers.
18-Apr-2008
CPP Group is to open a new credit card marketing services call centre in Chesterfield in July, with the creation of 300 jobs.
18-Apr-2008
Capita Hartshead, the pensions administrator, is to create almost 300 jobs at a new eight-storey headquarters due to open at Sheffield Parkway in April 2010.
16-Apr-2008
Quayle Munro is to acquire Van Tulleken, the London-based corporate finance firm, for £6.1m.
15-Apr-2008
Fladgate, the law firm, is planning to set up a 51,400 sq ft office at the New Brook office development in London's Covent Garden.
14-Apr-2008
Legal & General Retail Investments is to acquire Suffolk Life, the Ipswich-based pensions provider, for about £62m.
14-Apr-2008
Xafinity has acquired Hazell Carr, the pensions consultancy with about 400 staff in Reading, Cardiff and Stirling, for undisclosed terms.
10-Apr-2008
Annuity Direct is planning to create up to 50 jobs on the Isle of Wight over the next five years, and a new financial advice office will open in Newport.
10-Apr-2008
Cardif Pinnacle has acquired Warranty Direct, the Reading-based finance company with 40 staff, for undisclosed terms.
09-Apr-2008
Chang, the Stockport-based insurance claims company that trades as Call 24/7, Lawcall Direct and Claim 24/7, has been acquired by WNS (Holdings) of India for up to £9.6m.
09-Apr-2008
Skipton Building Society has acquired a majority stake in Thomson Shepherd, the independent financial adviser with 35 staff in Edinburgh, Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness.
08-Apr-2008
Colliers CRE has acquired the trade and assets of Godfrey Vaughan, the London-based investment, leasing and property management firm with 24 staff, for £7m.
08-Apr-2008
Lowell Group, the Leeds-based debt purchasing company with more than 300 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Exponent Private Equity.
08-Apr-2008
ICAP is to acquire Link Asset & Securities, the London-based equity derivatives broker with 136 staff, for an initial £135m.
07-Apr-2008
YFM Group, the Leeds-based venture capital firm with nine offices, has been acquired by GLE Group for undisclosed terms.
07-Apr-2008
CBG Group has acquired Howgud, the Oldham-based insurance broker, for an initial £1.2m, including trading subsidiaries EDN (Insurance Services), E Davies (Northern) and EDN (Financial Services).
07-Apr-2008
Royal Bank of Scotland is to sell its consumer finance operations in continental Europe to Santander of Spain for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of 861 staff.
07-Apr-2008
Hichens Harrison, the London-based stockbroker, has agreed to be acquired by Religare Enterprises of India for £55m.
07-Apr-2008
Brevan Howard, the asset management firm, is said to be planning to set up a 37,700 sq ft office at 55 Baker Street in London.
07-Apr-2008
Jelf Group has acquired Clarke Roxburgh, the insurance, financial planning and mortgage firm with ten offices in the West Midlands, for an initial £18m.
04-Apr-2008
Burns-Anderson, the Bristol-based financial advice company with about 80 staff, has been acquired by The Money Portal of London for £14m.
04-Apr-2008
Jelf Group is to acquire Argyll Insurance, the insurance broker with offices in Worthing, Gillingham and Herne Bay, for an initial £10m.
03-Apr-2008
Rathbones has acquired Citywall Financial Management, the Exeter-based wealth management firm with gross assets of £0.7m.
03-Apr-2008
Barclays Wealth is to open a new 8,000 sq ft wealth management office at the Chapel Street development in Liverpool next month.
03-Apr-2008
Moore & Smalley has merged with Lonsdale & Partners to create a combined Lancashire-based accountancy group with 200 staff.
02-Apr-2008
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance has acquired Sertus Underwriting, the Irish motor and household insurance firm with gross written premiums of £11m.
02-Apr-2008
Capita Group has acquired HFR Holdings and Lancaster Insurance Services for £16m, in order to expand its business into classic car insurance.
01-Apr-2008
Thinc is to create 50 new jobs for financial and mortgage advisers in Belfast, Londonderry, Omagh and Newry this year.
31-Mar-2008
Accountis, the Gwynedd-based supplier of payment systems, has been acquired by Fundtech of the US for £3.8m.
31-Mar-2008
Close Brothers has acquired Commercial Acceptances Group for £31m and Amber Credit for £2m, in order to expand its banking subsidiary.
28-Mar-2008
Giles Insurance Brokers has acquired DS Howell, the Tonyrefail-based insurance broker with 17 staff.
28-Mar-2008
Bibby Financial Services has bought Siemens Financial Services' single invoice factoring business for undisclosed terms.
27-Mar-2008
Skipton Building Society has acquired an 86% stake in Torquil Clark, the independent financial adviser with 120 staff in Wolverhampton and the Lake District.
26-Mar-2008
Thomas Westcott is to merge with Davison Bedworth to create a combined Devon-based accountancy group with 180 staff.
24-Mar-2008
Agrical, the agricultural loss adjuster with 35 staff at offices including Tadcaster and Wells, has undergone a management buy-out.
24-Mar-2008
Skipton Building Society has sold its Direct Life & Pension Services subsidiary to Cardif Pinnacle, in order to focus on savings and lending, mortgage servicing, estate agency, financial advice and data provision.
21-Mar-2008
Vantis has acquired the non-audit business of Marlow-based Brewer Higgins for an initial £0.4m.
19-Mar-2008
Tullett Prebon is to acquire Primex, the London-based energy broker, for up to £20m.
18-Mar-2008
Moneyquest, the online mortgage broker, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
18-Mar-2008
ID Data Group is to sell its CredEcard pre-paid card services business to Contis Group for £2.2m.
17-Mar-2008
Sewell Moorhouse, the Yorkshire-based financial recruitment firm, is planning to open five new offices in Hull, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Edinburgh.
17-Mar-2008
Morgan Cole has recruited a team of ten lawyers from Gloucester-based solicitors Tayntons, in order to expand its offices in Cardiff and Bristol.
14-Mar-2008
Davies Arnold Cooper is planning to double the size of its law business in Manchester, which currently has six partners and 22 staff, over the next three years.
12-Mar-2008
Brewin Dolphin is looking to open a new office in Nottingham, following the defection of a number of investment management staff from Barclays Wealth.
12-Mar-2008
Thomas Eggar is in negotiations to set up a new corporate and commercial law office in Southampton city centre, and the initial staff of 20 could eventually reach 200.
11-Mar-2008
BDO Stoy Hayward has acquired Lines Wilson, the Southampton-based tax boutique, for undisclosed terms, creating a combined business services group with 207 staff in the city.
11-Mar-2008
Henderson Insurance Brokers is to set up a new office with 12 staff in Leeds city centre next month.
10-Mar-2008
Four Corners has acquired Maplelord, the financial advice firm, for undisclosed terms, and eight staff will relocate from Market Harborough, Melton and Kibworth to Nottingham.
10-Mar-2008
Mishcon de Reya, the law firm, is in negotiations to set up a new London headquarters of at least 100,000 sq ft at 40 Holborn Viaduct.
10-Mar-2008
Mouchel Group has acquired Hedra, the management consultancy with 210 staff in London, Edinburgh, Fleet and Portsmouth, for £50m.
07-Mar-2008
First London Securities has acquired Torus IB, the holding company for a number of boutique investment management companies, for £26m.
07-Mar-2008
West Bromwich Building Society has submitted plans to develop a new call centre for 450 staff at Castle Gate in Dudley.
07-Mar-2008
Forshaws is to merge with Davies Ridgway, creating a combined Warrington-based law firm called FDR Solicitors with 150 staff.
06-Mar-2008
Giles, the Glasgow-based insurance broker with 32 offices, has been sold by Gresham to private equity firm Charterhouse Capital Partners for undisclosed terms.
05-Mar-2008
HBOS is considering plans to relocate 6,000 staff from 16 sites across Edinburgh into a new office development in the Fountainbridge area.
05-Mar-2008
Eversheds, the law firm, is planning to invest more than £30m in improvements to its new London headquarters near Bank this year.
04-Mar-2008
Barclays is to acquire Expobank, the Russian retail and commercial bank with 32 branches, for £373m.
04-Mar-2008
Fusion is planning to create a further 400 jobs at its motor and home insurance call centre in Peterlee by 2010.
03-Mar-2008
Royal Bank of Canada is to set up a leveraged finance business in London through its RBC Capital Markets division, including an initial team of up to 20 staff.
03-Mar-2008
Fairpoint Group is to create an unspecified number of new jobs at its Lancashire-based debt advice business, with the transfer of a training centre from its recently-acquired Clear Start division in Nottingham.
28-Feb-2008
Skipton Building Society is planning to expand its nationwide branch network from 82 to 150 by 2012.
28-Feb-2008
Murgitroyd has acquired Kennedys, the patent agency with 19 staff in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Newcastle, for £3.4m.
26-Feb-2008
Hughes Insurance is to open four new insurance broking branches in Coleraine, Omagh, Newry and Belfast over the next three months, taking its total network to 12.
26-Feb-2008
Morton Fraser, the law firm, is in negotiations to set up a 42,500 sq ft office at the £350m Quartermile development in Edinburgh.
26-Feb-2008
Begbies Traynor has acquired CoyleClark, the Altrincham-based tax investigation firm, as part of a strategy to extend its range of professional services.
25-Feb-2008
Royal Bank of Scotland is to relocate its Northampton-based corporate banking relationship management services to a new office at Grange Park over the next few months.
25-Feb-2008
Seekings & Wardle is to merge with McClarrons Insurance of Snainton to create a combined North Yorkshire-based insurance firm with 25 staff.
22-Feb-2008
Mattioli Woods, the pensions consultancy, is planning to create 50 new jobs at its Grove Park office near Leicester over the next three years, having acquired additional floor space.
21-Feb-2008
Mattioli Woods has acquired JB Group, the Lutterworth-based financial services firm with 25 staff, for £2.6m.
20-Feb-2008
Debts.co.uk is to acquire PB Recovery, the debt management company with offices in Glasgow, Cardiff and London, for £1m.
20-Feb-2008
Barclaycard is to relocate its Sky Card operation and up to 250 jobs from Crawley to Milton Keynes.
18-Feb-2008
Debtmatters is to sell its IVA Book to a consortium of Grant Thornton and Totemic for £6.4m and its residual debt resolution business to Creditflex for £0.8m, in order to focus on loan broking.
14-Feb-2008
Stones Solicitors is planning to recruit 20 additional staff for its Exeter-based law firm over the next few months, due to rising demand in commercial property and personal injury claims.
14-Feb-2008
Skipton Building Society has acquired a 90% stake in BDS Mortgage Group, the mortgage distributor with 60 staff, for £4.2m.
13-Feb-2008
Kings Legal is relocating its law firm from Cardiff to Imperial Park in Newport, with the creation of 50 jobs.
13-Feb-2008
Greystone Financial Services, the financial planning firm with 70 staff in Manchester and London, has been acquired by Focus Financial Partners of the US for an estimated £20m.
12-Feb-2008
Deutsche Bank is to set up a 68,500 sq ft office for 250 back-office staff at Brindleyplace in Birmingham in June.
12-Feb-2008
Culver Holdings has acquired an 81% stake in AMS Corporate Risks, the aviation broker, and the whole of the issued share capital of Lloyd's broker LPH Pitman for a total £0.1m.
11-Feb-2008
The Financial Services Authority is to set up a 27,230 sq ft office at One Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf.
11-Feb-2008
Moodys Investors Service is to relocate its London headquarters to a 170,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf.
11-Feb-2008
Barclays has acquired the UK credit card business of Discover Financial Services, including about 700,000 Goldfish customers, for £35m.
11-Feb-2008
GE Money is to relocate the headquarters of its consumer finance business from the US to London, but the number of staff involved is unknown.
11-Feb-2008
Moorhouse Group is planning to create 85 new jobs in Caerphilly, as part of a £8m investment in the expansion of its insurance business over the next two years.
08-Feb-2008
Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons has merged with Wiltshire-based Wood Awdry & Ford to create a combined law firm with annual turnover of more than £20m.
08-Feb-2008
Whitmarsh Sterland is to merge with Streets to create a combined accountancy group with almost 200 staff in Cambridge, St Neots, Newmarket, London, Hull, Peterborough, Grantham, Lincoln and Retford.
07-Feb-2008
Fraser Dawbarns is to merge with Waterman Cheetham to create a combined law firm with 110 staff at offices in King's Lynn, Wisbech, Downham Market, March and Peterborough.
07-Feb-2008
Royal Bank of Scotland is to relocate its regional corporate banking headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne to a larger 22,000 sq ft site at Trinity Gardens.
04-Feb-2008
Lloyds TSB is to create 150 new jobs at its telephone banking call centre in Fareham, and is also recruiting 250 staff in Bridgend and Newport, 100 in Brighton and 150 in Glasgow.
04-Feb-2008
Aviva is to acquire LIG Life Insurance of South Korea for £73m, in partnership with Woori Finance.
04-Feb-2008
Begbies Traynor has acquired Shaw Tax, the independent firm of tax advisors with 48 staff in Birmingham and London, for undisclosed terms.
31-Jan-2008
Intelligent Processing Solutions (IPSL) is to create 200 new jobs at its cheque processing business in Northampton, to add to the existing 1,500.
30-Jan-2008
Jelf Group has acquired Manson Insurance Group of Manchester for £16m, as well as Devon-based Bartlett Davies Bicks and Carter & Co Risk Management for a total £2.9m.
30-Jan-2008
Towergate has acquired McAra Associates, the Aberdeen-based insurance broker with 13 staff, for undisclosed terms.
30-Jan-2008
Locate In Birmingham is in negotiations with two unnamed international banks that are planning to open headquarters in Birmingham city centre, which could create up to 5,000 jobs.
29-Jan-2008
Barclays is to proceed with plans to build a new 100,000 sq ft regional headquarters for 850 staff at Asda's Dalgety Mills site in Poole by 2010.
29-Jan-2008
Kelly & Co is to relocate its Leeds-based property legal services business to a five-storey building at 49 St Paul's Street over the next few months.
28-Jan-2008
DWF, the law firm, is to relocate its Leeds office to a 32,000 sq ft unit at Bridgewater Place, and aims to increase the staff from 80 to 160.
25-Jan-2008
Freeth Cartwright, the law firm, is to relocate its Leicester office and 50 staff to the new Colton Square complex in March.
23-Jan-2008
CBG Group has acquired Barclay Brown, the insurance broker with offices in Manchester, Mold, Preston and Waterfoot, for an initial £1.5m.
21-Jan-2008
Xchanging has acquired Mercuris, the French provider of procurement outsourcing services to the banking and insurance sectors.
21-Jan-2008
King Sturge is in negotiations to acquire Bache Treharne, the Birmingham-based provider of insolvency services with 30 staff.
18-Jan-2008
Tenon Group has acquired Haines Watts Business Recovery, which has 130 staff at offices in Birmingham, Worcester, Leeds, Southend, London and Manchester, for undisclosed terms.
16-Jan-2008
Oval has acquired AJ Cook, the Ipswich-based insurance broker with more than 50 staff, for undisclosed terms.
14-Jan-2008
Bridge Insurance Brokers has acquired Chartwell, the Warrington-based insurance broker, taking its total workforce to almost 100.
11-Jan-2008
Financial Services Data Management is creating 200 jobs at a new call centre in Swansea.
09-Jan-2008
Scottish Friendly has acquired London Aberdeen & Northern Mutual Assurance Society of Leicester, including assets of £37m and 6,000 policyholders.
09-Jan-2008
Davies Arnold Cooper has acquired KSB Law, the commercial law firm with 60 staff in London and St Albans.
03-Jan-2008
Begbies Traynor has acquired David Horner & Co, the insolvency practitioner with offices in York, Doncaster and Middlesbrough, for undisclosed terms.
03-Jan-2008