Abbey National's decision to buy life insurance company Scottish Provident comes amidst a period of widespread consolidation in the banking sector. The deal comes weeks after Barclays agreed to take ...

The acquisition, which will make Abbey National the UK's largest seller of life insurance and income protection policies, signals the firm's intention to diversify away from its core mortgage business ...

Abbey National Insurance has launched a new personal accident plan to its existing customers. The personal accident plan provides a lump sum of up to £60,000 in permanent disability benefits and other ...

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Abbey has reported that its general insurance sales have been impacted by "lower mortgage lending". Sales in the second quarter of 2005 were 12,000 lower than the corresponding period last year (92 ...

Abbey Insurance, the broker based in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, has bought the rival firm Open and Direct in a multi-million pound deal. It will effectively double the size of Abbey which will ...