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Yorkshire Bank Yorkshire Bank is to shed more than 100 jobs at its account management and back-office technology support departments in Leeds. 28-Mar-2007 Yorkshire Bank is planning a £8m refurbishment at its headquarters in Leeds, in order to improve facilities and increase capacity in the four-storey building to about 700 staff. 14-Nov-2006 Yorkshire Bank has agreed terms with Frontier Estates to set up a 7,000 sq ft office at the Temple Point scheme in Birmingham. 19-Jul-2006 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 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 Yorkshire Bank is to set up a regional business centre at the former Wraggs industrial site in Sheffield, where it will employ 50 business advisors. 17-Dec-2001 Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank are to get a new £80m call centre in Kilmarnock, which will be operated by parent company National Australia Group and create about 500 jobs. 22-Dec-2000 Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank are to be merged by their parent company National Australia Group, in order to streamline the UK operations in preparation for a listing. 20-Nov-2000 National Westminster Bank's Lombard Tricity Finance division is planning to acquire the retail credit units of Yorkshire Bank. 11-Feb-1997 Yorkshire Bank is to cut 300 jobs at its headquarters in Leeds in order to remain competitive. 20-Apr-1996 Employees at the Midland and Yorkshire banks are being balloted by the Banking Insurance & Finance Union over whether they will stage walkouts over disputes about pay and jobs. 26-Feb-1996 Yorkshire Bank staff are trying to improve their pay offer by voting for an overtime ban on certain days in February. 24-Jan-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007