Westminster Bank Westminster Bank Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital. For
Sainsbury's Bank Sainsbury's Bank Sainsbury's Bank plc, trading as Sainsbury's Bank is a British bank wholly owned by Sainsbury's, a national supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. The bank began trading on 19 February 1997 as a joint venture between J Sainsbury plc and Bank of Scotland. Sainsbury's took full ownership of the bank in January 2014. The bank's head office is at 3 Lochside Avenue, Edinburgh EH12 9DJ, and it runs operations from various locations across the UK. In 2017 it had over 1.8 million active customers. Sainsbury's and Bank of Scotland (later a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group) formed the