Alliance & Leicester is a major UK financial services provider. In October 2008 Alliance & Leicester became part of the Santander Group, one of the world's largest banking groups. It offers a broad range of financial services to personal and commercial customers. This section of the site provides the following information on Alliance & Leicester:

• Key facts and figures
• Credit ratings

Facts and Figures (correct as at December 2007 - updated annually)

• Size

  • £55bn of customer advances including
    • £42.8bn of secured mortgage advances
    • £3.7bn of unsecured personal loans
    • £8.4bn of commercial loans
  • UK-wide branch network
  • Over 2,500 ATMs
  • Internet and telephone banking services
  • Around 14,000 Post Offices available for personal current account, small business and commercial customer transactions

• 5.5m Personal customers

  • 3.6% of the UK mortgage market
  • Personal customer deposit balances of £23.3bn
  • £3.7bn unsecured personal loan balances
  • 1.72 million active current accounts

• Corporate customers and business banking

  • £8.4bn of commercial loans
  • 92,400 business bank accounts
  • £68bn of cash sold to financial institutions
  • £63bn of cash handled
  • £7.5bn of commercial customer deposits