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Unilever is to outsource some of its finance functions to IBM centres in Portugal, Poland and India, with the loss of about 50 UK-based jobs, and a decision will soon be made on the outsourcing of its HR and IT services. 29-Dec-2005 Ernst & Young is planning to expand the workforce in its consulting division from 120 to 300 by the end of 2006. 28-Dec-2005 Vebnet has raised £1m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based employee benefit solutions business. 27-Dec-2005 CPP Group, the provider of insurance plans for credit card holders, has secured £25m of funding to expand in Europe and Asia and to improve facilities at its York headquarters. 27-Dec-2005 BDO Stoy Hayward is planning to expand the 100-strong workforce at its business services office in Leeds by 20% over the next six months. 22-Dec-2005 Kleinwort Benson is to shed 12 private banking jobs in Jersey and a further 12 in London, as part of a restructuring programme aimed at reducing support functions and increasing the number of client-facing staff. 22-Dec-2005 Lloyds TSB is said to be planning to shed up to 200 IT jobs in Bristol, Manchester and London. 21-Dec-2005 HBOS is to set up a 30,000 sq ft Halifax Home Insurance claims centre at the NG2 business park in Nottingham next October, with the relocation of 100 jobs from Kegworth and the creation of 200 new jobs. 21-Dec-2005 HBOS is planning to open its biggest Bank of Scotland branch at Argyle Street in Glasgow in 2007, employing 65 staff, but three existing city centre sites would close. 21-Dec-2005 The London Stock Exchange has rejected a £1.5bn takeover bid from Macquarie Bank of Australia. 16-Dec-2005 Egg is to create 300 new jobs at its internet banking call centre in Derby, taking the total workforce to 2,000. 15-Dec-2005 Provident Financial is to close its Horsham-based Yes Car Credit division with the loss of 820 jobs at 28 branches throughout the country. 15-Dec-2005 Royal Liver Assurance is to integrate its 160-strong financial advisory team in Liverpool with its Leeds-based subsidiary Park Row, with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs. 09-Dec-2005 Alea of Bermuda is to stop writing insurance in London, and some of the 125 staff will transfer to Lloyd's insurer Canopius. 06-Dec-2005 Lewis Silkin, the law firm, is said to be planning to set up a 85,000 sq ft office at 5 Chancery Lane in London. 06-Dec-2005 Nationwide Building Society is looking to sell At Home Nationwide, the home rental company with 122 staff in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Manchester. 05-Dec-2005 BDO Stoy Hayward, the accountancy firm, is planning to set up a 165,000 sq ft office at the former M&S headquarters in Baker Street. 05-Dec-2005 KPMG is said to be in discussions to set up a 120,000 sq ft regional headquarters at Snow Hill in Birmingham. 01-Dec-2005 KPMG is to create 30 new jobs at its tax practice in Glasgow, due to rising demand for its personal self-assessment tax returns service. 29-Nov-2005 Clarke Wilmott, the law firm, is to relocate its Southampton office to a 20,000 sq ft site at Botley Grange, and the workforce will rise from 90 to at least 125 over the next three years. 29-Nov-2005 Axa is to recruit 100 extra staff at its office in Ipswich, in order to provide insurance services for the Lloyds TSB Insurance travel account. 25-Nov-2005 Citigroup, the US financial services company, is to relocate 120 Belfast-based staff to a new 38,000 sq ft site in the city's Titanic Quarter next September, and is still aiming to create 255 jobs over the next four years. 24-Nov-2005 Glasgow City Council and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow are planning to pool some of their resources and seek a suitable site for the creation a one-stop shop for business advice and support. 23-Nov-2005 Braveheart Ventures has secured a £11m equity investment from Bank of Scotland Corporate, and the money will be used to fund the commercialisation of academic research at Scottish universities. 22-Nov-2005 Nationwide Building Society is to set up a new call centre at an undisclosed site in Wakefield, with the creation of 300 jobs. 21-Nov-2005 Abbey is planning to close a financial services office on the Isle of Man early next year, with the loss of up to 140 jobs, in order to concentrate on an offshore centre in Jersey. 21-Nov-2005 Herbert Smith, the law firm, is to set up a 40,000 sq ft office at City Gate House on London's Finsbury Square. 21-Nov-2005 Accenture is planning to shed up to 65 of the 375 jobs at its accountancy business in Aberdeen, following the renegotiation of a number of contracts. 18-Nov-2005 Cazenove is to demerge its £9.3bn Cazenove Capital Management business by the end of the year, in order to separate the division from the recently-created investment banking joint venture with JP Morgan Chase. 17-Nov-2005 Lloyds TSB is to close its Cheltenham & Gloucester mortgage application centre near Warwick in 2006, in order to transfer 300 jobs to India and a further 100 to Gloucester and North Lincolnshire. 17-Nov-2005 Barclays is to disband its mortgage processing joint venture with Countrywide Financial of the US by selling its 30% stake in the business to Countrywide, and 1,600 staff will be taken back in-house by Barclays. 16-Nov-2005 Buckles Solicitors, the Peterborough-based law firm, is to relocate 100 staff to the Bourges Boulevard next spring. 11-Nov-2005 Bank of New York has announced plans to double the size of its new Manchester operation, with the site employing 350 staff by the end of 2006 and 750 in a few years. 10-Nov-2005 HFS Group is considering plans to shed at least 60 of the 465 jobs in its loans business, which will affect sites in Macclesfield and Manchester. 10-Nov-2005 Liberata is to set up a council tax and state benefits call centre in Barrow, which will employ 200 staff. 10-Nov-2005 Yorkshire Bank is to open a new flagship branch in the centre of Leeds in January, and 18 staff will relocate from two existing branches. 10-Nov-2005 OGC Buying Solutions, the government procurement service, is to create 20 new jobs in Liverpool over the next few weeks. 09-Nov-2005 Capital One is looking to simplify the management structure at its Nottingham-based credit cards business, with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs from the 2,200-strong workforce. 09-Nov-2005 National Assembly for Wales is providing financial support to Contact Centres UK to set up a new financial services and legal call centre in Bridgend, with the creation of 50 jobs. 04-Nov-2005 The Financial Services Skills Council is planning to set up a National Financial Services Academy in September 2006, including an initial three centres in Manchester, Norwich and London. 02-Nov-2005 Admiral is to create 250 jobs at its motor insurance business in Swansea over the next three years, and will relocate from the city centre to the 40,000 sq ft Cyprium waterfront scheme next spring. 02-Nov-2005 Gartmore, the investment bank, is to undergo a strategic review by US-based parent company Nationwide, which could lead to a £1bn sale or flotation. 02-Nov-2005 Ulster Bank is to invest £50m in branch improvements over the next three years, including 90 sites in Northern Ireland and 120 in the Republic. 31-Oct-2005 GMAC Financial Services is to create 100 new jobs at its car finance business in Nantgarw, near Caerphilly, by the end of the year. 31-Oct-2005 Mattioli Woods, the pensions consultancy, is planning to raise £6m in a flotation on Aim. 31-Oct-2005 Davenham, the specialist finance company, is planning to raise £27m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund acquisitions and expansion into new regions. 31-Oct-2005 Barclaycard is said to be planning to set up a 100,000 sq ft office at the Spinningfields development in Manchester. 31-Oct-2005 BDO Stoy Hayward, the accountancy firm, is to set up a 20,700 sq ft office at Ocean Village in Southampton. 31-Oct-2005 Abbey National is considering plans to shed 2,500 more jobs than the previously-announced figure of 4,000, while call centres in India will close next year and the work transferred to Teesside, Glasgow and Milton Keynes. 28-Oct-2005 Intrum Justitia is creating 40 new jobs at its debt collection and credit management services call centre in Liverpool. 24-Oct-2005 Taylor Wessing, the law firm, is seeking a suitable 150,000 sq ft office in London for a new headquarters to replace its existing Victoria Embankment site. 24-Oct-2005 Loyalty Management UK, the operator of the Nectar loyalty card scheme, is in talks with a number of potential trade buyers, which could lead to a £300m sale. 24-Oct-2005 Direct Legal & Collections is looking to create up to 250 jobs at its new debt collection call centre in Brackley. 21-Oct-2005 Cabot Financial, the debt collection agency valued at £250m, has appointed investment bank Lexicon Partners to find a buyer for the company. 20-Oct-2005 Consensus Business Group, the finance and property group, is to set up a 33,000 sq ft headquarters for 200 staff at 35 Park Lane, London. 20-Oct-2005 Hazell Carr, the financial services outsourcing company, is relocating up to 300 staff from Newport to a new 22,500 sq ft office in Cardiff. 19-Oct-2005 Tata Consultancy Services of India is to set up its first outsourcing operation in the UK having won a contract to provide back-office services for Pearl Assurance, which will involve the transfer of 950 Peterborough-based staff. 19-Oct-2005 GE Consumer Finance is seeking a suitable location in the Midlands to set up a 100,000 sq ft office and call centre, in order to consolidate a number of existing offices onto one site. 17-Oct-2005 NM Rothschild, the investment bank, is looking into the possibility of redeveloping its New Court headquarters in London into a modern office complex for 600 of its staff. 10-Oct-2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers, the professional services firm, expects to recruit about 400 new staff at its Birmingham-based Midlands division during the current financial year. 07-Oct-2005 Lloyds TSB is to transfer 41 jobs from its accounts and staff expenses department in Bristol to India, as part of an outsourcing deal with Xansa. 07-Oct-2005 Barclays is said to be considering plans to shed up to 500 of the 2,500 jobs from its IT workforce, as part of the restructuring of a desktop outsourcing deal with EDS. 06-Oct-2005 Aon is planning to shed up to 750 of the 6,800 jobs from its network of 70 insurance broking offices across the UK over the next two years. 06-Oct-2005 Oxford University is linking up with 50 companies to set up a £5m business tax research centre by September 2006. 06-Oct-2005 The Funding Corporation is to create hundreds of jobs at its Chester-based car loans business, having won a new 10-year contract to work with almost 200 Subaru, Daihatsu and Isuzu dealers. 04-Oct-2005 Virgin Money is planning to outsource its back-office administration work, which could lead to the loss of some of the 350 jobs at its Norwich-based consumer finance business. 03-Oct-2005 Cheshire Building Society is to shed up to 70 of the 450 jobs at its head office in Macclesfield, and four branches will be closed in Alderley Edge, Bollington, Edgeley and Bebington. 30-Sep-2005 Barclays is to create 250 new jobs at its customer services call centre at the Doxford International Business Park in Sunderland by the end of the year. 27-Sep-2005 Ernst & Young is to shed more than a third of its secretarial jobs in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England, but specific numbers have not been given. 23-Sep-2005 American Express is to shed a further 47 jobs in Brighton, as part of a restructuring of its technology department that will also create 23 new posts. 23-Sep-2005 Direct Line has confirmed plans to relocate about 900 staff from three Glasgow offices to Atlantic Quay by next spring, and 200 new jobs will be created at the site by 2008. 21-Sep-2005 Resolution, the consolidator of closed life assurance funds, is looking to spend about £500m on a major acquisition over the next six months. 21-Sep-2005 Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, is planning to set up a 25,000 sq ft office at Whitehall Riverside in Leeds. 19-Sep-2005 HBOS is to close 48 of the 67 former Birmingham Midshires building society branches, with the remaining 19 being converted to the Halifax fascia and all 470 staff being offered jobs elsewhere in the group. 19-Sep-2005 The Child Support Agency is to create 200 new jobs in Kirkcaldy by next April, and many of the vacancies will be offered to former Jobcentre Plus staff. 15-Sep-2005 Provident Financial is to consider the future options for its Yes Car Credit division, which could lead to the business being sold or closed. 15-Sep-2005 Cube Financial, the London-based broker with 120 staff, has appointed Fenchurch Advisory Partners to conduct a strategic review, which could lead to the business being put up for sale for more than £40m. 06-Sep-2005 Barclays is to shed up to 200 of the 2,500 jobs in its IT department, prompting speculation about the future of its outsourcing contract with EDS. 31-Aug-2005 Scottish Widows, the insurance company, is to transfer 125 data processing jobs from Edinburgh to India. 29-Aug-2005 Blemain Group, the Manchester-based provider of mortgages and loans to people with poor credit ratings, has appointed NM Rothschild to conduct a strategic review, which could lead to the business being sold for £150m. 23-Aug-2005 Islamic Bank of Britain is looking to expand its branch network from six to 13, having just opened a new site in Birmingham. 22-Aug-2005 The AA is to restructure two insurance call centres in Newcastle and Cardiff with the loss of 100 management and administrative jobs. 22-Aug-2005 Legal & General has confirmed that it will stay in Hove until at least 2025, and some of its 1,600 call centre staff will transfer to the new 200,000 sq ft City Park office development next year. 19-Aug-2005 Norwich Union is to close two call centres next year with the loss of 210 jobs in Darlington and 120 jobs in Morecambe, in order to transfer some of its RAC insurance work to sites in Norwich and Bristol. 16-Aug-2005 Rightmove, the internet-based company that advertises homes for sale, has appointed UBS to consider plans for an initial public offering, which could value the business at £200m. 11-Aug-2005 Newcastle Building Society is to close 19 of its 52 branches by the end of the year, with the loss of more than 100 jobs in Yorkshire, Scotland, the North West and the Midlands. 09-Aug-2005 State Street Bank of the US is to set up a new 320,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf in London in 2008. 08-Aug-2005 GE Capital is seeking 200,000 sq ft of office space in the West End of London over the next five years, in order to consolidate staff from existing sites. 08-Aug-2005 Alliance & Leicester is considering plans to sell off its network of cash machines for up to £150m, and has appointed Citigroup to explore the various options. 25-Jul-2005 Premierline Direct is to expand its insurance call centre in Lancaster, with the creation of 50 jobs. 19-Jul-2005 Smith & Williamson is looking to create up to 30 jobs at a new financial services office in Glasgow over the next 12 months. 18-Jul-2005 ID Data, the provider of card-based transaction systems, is to raise £3.7m in a share placing. 15-Jul-2005 JP Morgan and Schroders have terminated an outsourcing contract, which will involve Schroders re-employing about 150 London-based staff to run its back office operations. 04-Jul-2005 The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is to close its office in Cardiff in March with the loss of up to 55 jobs, in order to transfer the work to London. 01-Jul-2005 The Department for Work & Pensions is to set up a 36,000 sq ft office for the Pensions Regulator at Trafalgar Place in Brighton. 27-Jun-2005 Kaupthing, the Icelandic bank, is planning to set up a 95,000 sq ft office in London's Mayfair, and is expected to relocate 400 recently-acquired Singer & Friedlander staff from the City. 27-Jun-2005 Lloyds TSB is to set up a new 100,000 sq ft office for its wholesale banking division at 10 Gresham Street in the City of London. 27-Jun-2005 Littlewoods is to create 300 jobs at its new financial services call centre in Liverpool over the next six months. 27-Jun-2005 Portman Building Society is to rename its 39 Staffordshire Building Society branches and the Wolverhampton headquarters to Portman by August. 24-Jun-2005 First Locate, the debt recovery company, is planning to set up a call centre in Scarborough, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 23-Jun-2005 UBS, the Swiss bank, is to expand its Broadgate office in London by taking an extra 80,000 sq ft. 20-Jun-2005 Churchill Insurance is to create 40 new jobs at its sales and customer services call centre in Peterborough. 16-Jun-2005 Moorhouse Group is looking to spend £5m on acquisitions to expand its Caerphilly-based insurance broking business. 16-Jun-2005 Bruntwood is to let about half of the former Telecom House in Leeds, with Beresford's Keypoint taking 25,000 sq ft and law firm Ricksons taking 8,300 sq ft. 13-Jun-2005 Aviva, the insurance company, is to relocate 800 Glasgow-based call centre staff to a new site nearby next year. 09-Jun-2005 Chaucer, the Lloyd's insurer valued at £195m, has received a takeover approach from Amlin. 09-Jun-2005 Royal Bank of Scotland is to open a call centre with up to 700 staff at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow, replacing two existing sites for its Direct Line and Churchill insurance operations. 07-Jun-2005 BDO Stoy Hayward is planning to recruit an additional 600 partners and staff to its accountancy firm over the next three years, and is thought to be looking to move out of its Baker Street headquarters in London. 06-Jun-2005 United Utilities has warned of job losses among the 1,600-strong workforce at its recently-acquired Marlborough Stirling financial services business. 03-Jun-2005 Kester Cunningham John, the law firm, is to set up a new 7,000 sq ft office at the Meridian Business Park in Norwich by the end of the year. 02-Jun-2005 Debtmatters is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its consumer debt advice business. 01-Jun-2005 American Express is to shed 250 jobs in Brighton, with technical staff and analysts being hardest hit. 31-May-2005 Advent Capital, the Lloyd's of London underwriter, has raised £65m in new financing and is planning to float on Aim. 31-May-2005 Fortis Insurance is to create a further 150 jobs at its offices in Eastleigh and Gloucester, having won a contract from Age Concern. 27-May-2005 Croner Consulting is to close regional offices in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Shipley, in order to centralise its employment law, health and safety operations at its site in Hinckley. 27-May-2005 London & Country Mortgages of Bath is looking to recruit a further 40 mortgage advisers this year. 26-May-2005 BiB Group is planning to double the size of its Darlington-based insurance business over the next five years, with the creation of 20 jobs. 25-May-2005 Global Home Loans is to shed about 250 jobs at its mortgage processing operations in Leeds, Dartford, Chelmsford and Glasgow. 23-May-2005 Yorkshire Bank is looking to expand its senior management team in Liverpool, with vacancies in asset finance, acquisition funding, wealth management and treasury solutions. 20-May-2005 JP Morgan, the financial services firm, is opening a new office with up to 40 staff at Temple Square in Liverpool this month. 19-May-2005 ACCA, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, expects to create a further 50 jobs to add to the 250 at its new Central Quay office in Glasgow. 17-May-2005 Benfield, the reinsurance company, is looking to relocate its headquarters from the existing 100,000 sq ft office in Bishopsgate to a 150,000 sq ft site. 16-May-2005 Lloyds TSB is to close five small processing centres in Plymouth, Taunton, Stockton, Swansea and Cardiff, with the loss of 465 jobs, in order to transfer work to its main sites in Glasgow, Manchester, Andover and Chelmsford. 12-May-2005 Abbey National is now planning to shed 4,000 jobs this year, rather than the 3,000 envisaged before its acquisition by Santander Central Hispano, with head office and back office staff expected to be worst hit. 11-May-2005 Halliwells is planning to double the size of its Liverpool office over the next three years, following its recent merger with Cuff Roberts. 10-May-2005 National Australia Bank is planning to close up to 100 of its 449 Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank branches over the next 18 months. 10-May-2005 Telecom Service Centres is to create up to 80 jobs at its call centre in Aviemore, having won a new tele-banking contract from HSBC. 05-May-2005 Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, the law firm, is seeking a suitable site for a 100,000 sq ft office in London EC3, and hopes to relocate by the end of 2006. 02-May-2005 Holman Fenwick & Willan, the law firm, is looking to set up a new 70,000 sq ft office in London EC3. 02-May-2005 Killik & Co is to expand its stockbroking and financial planning offices in Ipswich with the creation of 40 jobs. 29-Apr-2005 Hitachi Capital is to merge its Leeds-based consumer finance division with its Horsforth-based credit management and insurance services divisions, and the combined business will relocate to new offices in Leeds. 28-Apr-2005 Crutes is planning to recruit an additional 30 staff at its Newcastle-based law firm this year. 25-Apr-2005 Hunton & Williams is planning to relocate its London-based law firm to a 25,000 sq ft office at the Swiss Re Tower. 25-Apr-2005 MBNA Europe, the credit card company, is to set up an in-house transactional printing operation at its Chester headquarters, with the creation of 80 jobs. 22-Apr-2005 Hichens, Harrison & Co, the stockbroker, is planning a flotation on Aim with an estimated valuation of £6m. 19-Apr-2005 Credit Services Europe is planning to create 100 new jobs at its Shadow debt recovery business in Cwmbran over the next four years. 19-Apr-2005 Nectar, the retail loyalty card scheme, is planning to shed more than 150 jobs at the Sitel call centre in Newcastle later this year, in order to transfer work to India. 14-Apr-2005 Resolution Life is to merge the former Royal & Sun Alliance and Swiss Life closed life operations onto a single site at Albert Dock in Liverpool, and the new group will be known as Phoenix Life and employ 160 staff. 13-Apr-2005 Marsh & McLennan has confirmed plans to shed 750 jobs in its UK insurance broking business, which will involve reducing the number of sites that carry out claims handling and premium collection. 12-Apr-2005 Beachcroft Wansbroughs, the law firm, is said to be looking to set up a new 100,000 sq ft office in Bristol to consolidate its existing sites. 11-Apr-2005 Admiral Group is recruiting 100 additional staff for its insurance call centres in Swansea and Cardiff this month. 06-Apr-2005 GE Consumer Finance is to set up a new call centre at the Cobalt Business Park on North Tyneside in May, with the creation of up to 150 jobs. 04-Apr-2005 HSBC Private Bank is planning to recruit 120 private bankers and open its first regional offices in Birmingham, Leeds and Cardiff over the next few months. 31-Mar-2005 Leeds & Holbeck, the building society with 58 branches, is to change its name to Leeds Building Society. 31-Mar-2005 National Australia Bank is to shed about 1,700 jobs at its Yorkshire and Clydesdale banking operations in the UK over the next 18 months. 30-Mar-2005 The Homebuyers Advice Centre is to relocate its mortgages business and 30 staff from Bolton to Chorley in May, with the creation of 50 new jobs. 30-Mar-2005 Clay Shaw Thomas is relocating its accountancy firm and 45 staff to a new site at Bocam Park in Bridgend. 29-Mar-2005 Secure Trust is to change its name to Arbuthnot Banking Group. 23-Mar-2005 Bank of Ireland is to shed 2,100 jobs in the UK and Ireland, and is considering offers for its Bristol & West branch network. 22-Mar-2005 Quinn-Direct is to create about 90 new jobs at its insurance business in Manchester. 17-Mar-2005 Intelligent Finance is to transfer 150 of its 2,000 staff to parent company HBOS call centres in Motherwell and Dunfermline. 15-Mar-2005 Bank Machine, the operator of about 1,000 cash machines, has appointed Close Brothers to conduct a strategic review that could lead to the business being sold for up to £50m. 14-Mar-2005 Royal & Sun Alliance has appointed Lazard to advise on the sale of its US motor insurance business, as part of a strategy to focus on UK general insurance. 14-Mar-2005 QBE Insurance of Australia is to take a further 55,000 sq ft of office space at Plantation Place in London EC3. 14-Mar-2005 Coface is to extend the office space at its risk information department in Birmingham, and the workforce will rise from six to 12. 11-Mar-2005 The Scottish Executive is to relocate 100 jobs at the Accountant in Bankruptcy agency from Edinburgh to Ayrshire, and several sites are being considered in the Irvine Bay area. 10-Mar-2005 Allied Irish Banks is to close two local branches in Sparkhill and Harborne in May, in order to transfer customers to its new branch in Birmingham city centre. 09-Mar-2005 Aegon UK is to outsource some of the back-office functions of its Edinburgh-based fund management business to Citigroup, with the transfer of 75 staff. 09-Mar-2005 BBVA of Spain is to close its banking, investment and trust office in Jersey with the loss of 20 jobs. 08-Mar-2005 HSBC is planning to reorganise its investment research business with the creation of about 50 jobs for analysts in London, New York and Hong Kong over the next six months. 07-Mar-2005 Wragge & Co is to relocate its 15-strong private client team to the Birmingham office of law firm Mills & Reeve in May. 04-Mar-2005 Newcastle Building Society is considering plans to relocate its headquarters and 855 staff to a larger site outside the city, and will consider business parks in North Tyneside. 04-Mar-2005 The Inland Revenue is to shed 126 jobs at its tax returns processing centre in St Austell this month. 04-Mar-2005 Co-operative Insurance Society has confirmed plans to create 120 jobs at a new call centre at its head office in Manchester. 03-Mar-2005 Brabners Chaffe Street, the law firm, is looking to relocate its 50 Manchester-based staff to a larger site in the city centre. 02-Mar-2005 Citigroup of the US is planning to shed 1,400 jobs over the next few months, which is likely to affect its investment banking operations in London. 02-Mar-2005 Lloyds TSB is to create about 200 customer service jobs at its insurance operation in Newport, South Wales, over the next four months. 01-Mar-2005 Axa is to shed up to 80 jobs at its customer service centre in Coventry, in order to transfer the work to India. 28-Feb-2005 Aon is to set up a travel insurance call centre in Leicester, with the creation of 120 jobs. 28-Feb-2005 Abbey is to spend £8.5m rebranding its 726 branches to include the logo of its Spanish owner Santander Central Hispano, and also plans to increase the number of sales staff in branches by 30%. 28-Feb-2005 The National Assembly for Wales is to set up regional offices for more than 1,000 staff in Llandudno Junction and Aberystwyth over the next three years, with 300 of the jobs being relocated from Cardiff. 25-Feb-2005 Policy Administration Services, the Crewe-based provider of administrative facilities for the insurance services of the Caudwell Group, is planning to create up to 2,000 jobs over the next five years. 25-Feb-2005 Deutsche Bank is considering plans to sell its UK asset management business, and Hawkpoint has been appointed to advise on the options. 24-Feb-2005 WH Ireland is planning to expand its financial services operations in Manchester and relocate to a larger site in London this year. 23-Feb-2005 Marsh & McLennan is said to be considering plans to shed hundreds of the 6,450 jobs at its 30 insurance offices throughout the UK this spring. 21-Feb-2005 Sunderland Marine, the insurance company, is to relocate up to 75 staff from Sunderland to a new £5m headquarters in Durham in June. 17-Feb-2005 Avon UK is looking to recruit a further 20,000 people to its direct salesforce, and may expand its product range by offering life insurance, motor insurance and credit cards. 16-Feb-2005 Eversheds is to close its remortgaging unit in Manchester with the loss of 26 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Cardiff. 16-Feb-2005 Debt Free Direct is to raise £8.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its consumer debt advice business. 15-Feb-2005 Nymex of the US is planning to open an energy futures trading floor in London this year. 15-Feb-2005 Royal Bank of Scotland is considering plans to raise about £50m from the sale and leaseback of about 300 buildings. 14-Feb-2005 Davenham, the specialist finance firm, has been put up for sale with a valuation of up to £50m. 14-Feb-2005 Abbey is considering plans to shed 85 IT jobs at its Mays Meadow call centre in Belfast. 10-Feb-2005 Cantor Fitzgerald is planning to relocate its London headquarters from America Square to a 109,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf in London. 09-Feb-2005 FTSE, the independent data and indices company, is to relocate from London's Fore Street to a 26,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf. 09-Feb-2005 National Australia Bank is to merge its Yorkshire and Clydesdale banking operations and open 12 new branches in the south-east. 08-Feb-2005 Lloyds TSB is creating 100 jobs at its Shareview stockbroking division in Edinburgh, which could involve the relocation of some staff from London. 08-Feb-2005 Willis is to shed more than 20 IT jobs at its insurance business in Ipswich. 07-Feb-2005 Barclaycard is to invest £76m expanding its credit cards business into Sweden and Norway, having formed a joint venture with Swedbank. 07-Feb-2005 The Department for Work & Pensions is planning to set up a Welsh-language Jobcentre call centre with 250 staff at the Parc Menai business park near Bangor by 2006. 04-Feb-2005 Hill Dickinson, the law firm, is said to be considering plans to relocate its three Liverpool offices and up to 700 staff to the £100m St Paul's Square development in 2006. 03-Feb-2005 Citigroup has shortlisted Scotland as a potential location for the expansion of its administration and global custody business, which could create hundreds of jobs. 02-Feb-2005 Royal Bank of Scotland is to relocate the London office of its Adam & Company private banking business to a new £9.2m site in Mayfair. 31-Jan-2005 Barclays has started to relocate its 5,000 head office staff from the City of London to Canary Wharf, and the move should be completed by May. 31-Jan-2005 Bartercard is looking to open three trade exchange franchise operations in the North West, with the creation of up to 150 jobs. 27-Jan-2005 MBNA is to shed 100 of the 5,000 jobs at its Chester-based credit cards business. 25-Jan-2005 The Funding Corporation has announced the creation of 250 jobs in its Chester-based call centre, customer service and administration departments. 25-Jan-2005 HypoVereinsbank, the German bank, is planning to set up a new UK headquarters on five floors of the Moorhouse building in London EC2. 24-Jan-2005 Deutsche Bank is in the process of shedding hundreds of the 8,000 jobs in London, as part of a worldwide restructuring programme. 24-Jan-2005 Western Mortgage Services is to create up to 90 new jobs at its mortgage administration business in Plymouth this year. 20-Jan-2005 Albany Group is to create more than 100 new jobs at its insurance services call centre in Peterlee this year. 19-Jan-2005 Deutsche Bank is to close its equity and debt research office in Edinburgh with the loss of 12 jobs. 18-Jan-2005 Travelex is to shed up to 50 jobs at its foreign exchange business in Peterborough, following a fall in demand for travellers' cheques. 17-Jan-2005 The Department for Work & Pensions is planning to set up an office for the Financial Assistance Scheme at Monks Cross in York, and some of the 100 staff may transfer from the existing pensions operation that is due to close in March. 17-Jan-2005 East Riding Council is considering plans to outsource some of its administrative functions to Arvato, which could lead to the transfer of 500 jobs and the creation of 650 new jobs in Hull over the next four years. 17-Jan-2005 Loans.co.uk is to create 65 new jobs at its credit broking call centre in Preston. 17-Jan-2005 The European Bank of Reconstruction & Development is planning to spend £13m modernising its Broadgate headquarters in London. 17-Jan-2005 HSBC is planning to open 150 branches and recruit 1,000 commercial bankers in France this year, as part of a rebranding of the business. 17-Jan-2005 Thomas Westcott, the accountancy firm, is to relocate its 60 Exeter-based staff to a new headquarters at Southernhay later this year. 13-Jan-2005 Moorhouse Group, the Caerphilly-based insurance company, is planning to expand its workforce from 76 to about 130 this year. 12-Jan-2005 Essential Mortgages, the Wolverhampton-based mortgage broker, is said to have ceased trading with the loss of up to 100 jobs. 11-Jan-2005
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