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
FXdirekt Bank FXdirekt Bank FXdirekt Bank was an independent company that had around 90 employees at its peak. On December 21, 2012, it began to liquidate customer accounts and return customer assets, pursuant to the order of the German financial regulator, BaFin. The company headquarters were located in Oberhausen, Germany. FXdirekt Bank was a member of the EdW ("Entschädigungseinrichtung der Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen"), which was an organisation created to secure investor claims and was also registered as a commercial bank with the BaFin the German financial regulator. The first German-language online trading platform FXdirekt was introduced onto the market in 2001 by the company