St. James's Place Bank · Edinburgh United Kingdom

St. James's Place Bank wants to help customers get a place of their own. The bank offers mortgage loans, checking accounts, and savings accounts to customers throughout the UK via telephone and the Internet. It specializes in offset mortgages, which allow customers to reduce interest payments by offsetting credit balances against their mortgage debt. Launched in 2001 as a banking vehicle for wealthy individuals, St. James Place Bank became part of Lloyds Banking Group after big British bank Lloyds TSB acquired its former parent company, HBOS, in 2009. To read the full description, subscribe now.

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