Yorkshire Bank took place in the bank's heartland and many miners were customers, having been encouraged by the National Coal Board to have their pay mandated to a bank account. In 1990, the National Australia Bank Group acquired the bank from the consortium of owning banks which, after mergers and acquisitions, were the National Westminster Bank, (holders of 40%), Barclays Bank (32%), Lloyds Bank (20%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (8%). The price paid was £1 billion and the bank joined National Australia Bank's other European businesses, Clydesdale Bank (Scotland) and Northern Bank (which operated in both jurisdictions in Ireland). In May
Anglo-Portuguese Bank BNU, the branch issued banknotes. Anglo-Portuguese Bank Two banks have borne the name Anglo-Portuguese Bank. The first was a short-lived (1862-3) bank. The second operated under various names from 1929 to 2004. The first Anglo-Portuguese Bank in 1863 had merged with the London and Brazilian Bank. Both banks had been founded in 1862. The origins of the second Anglo-Portuguese Bank lie in the Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU). The BNU, which had been founded in Lisbon in 1864, established a branch in London in 1919. Ten years later, BNU incorporated its branch as the Anglo-Portuguese Colonial and Overseas Bank. (That same