Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) he left the company. In 2017, Howard made a cameo return to the world of advertising in an advert for Hotels.com. Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) Howard Brown (born c. 1966) is a former customer services representative and sales ambassador for HBOS plc, which owned both Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank (previously the Halifax Building Society) in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his appearances in Halifax/HBOS television advertisements, often singing and dancing. He was born in Sheldon, Birmingham, and is of Barbadian descent. Brown became the star of the HBOS Marketing Campaign in 2000, which resulted in
M&S Bank sale, it was agreed that M&S and HSBC would share profits from M&S Money until at least 2019. In 2012, M&S Bank began to open branches within existing Marks & Spencer retail stores. M&S Bank provides a range of banking, credit and insurance products to personal customers, and operates a number of branches within M&S stores. More recently it launched its brand of mortgages. It also provides internet banking services. As the company is a subsidiary of HSBC, it uses the M&S brand under licence from Marks & Spencer. M&S Bank is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated