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Notes in circulation.

| |Value of notes in |No of notes issued by |
| |circulation end February |denomination in year to end|
| |1996 (million) |February1996 (million) |
|1 pound |56 |- |
|5 pounds |1,067 |336 |
|10 pounds|5,688 |575 |
|20 pounds|8,579 |326 |
|50 pounds|3,104 |43 |
|Other |1,154 |- |
|notes | | |
|Total |19,648 |1,280 |

Source : Bank of England.

Table 3.

Major British Banks 1995.
| |Assets |Market |Staff|Branches |Cash |
| |Liabilities|Capital | | |dispensers |
| |(Mln |(Mln | | |and ATMs |
| |pounds) |pounds) | | | |
|Abbey |97,614 |10,765 |16,30|678 |1,267 |
|National | | |0 | | |
|Bank of |34,104 |4,095 |11,30|411 |463 |
|Scotland | | |0 | | |
|Barclays |164,184 |18,407 |61,20|2,050 |3,020 |
| | | |0 | | |
|Lloyds TSB |131,750 |25,496 |66,40|2,858 |4,346 |
| | | |0 | | |
|Midland |92,093 |39,658 |43,40|1,701 |2,282 |
| | | |0 | | |
|National |166,347 |13,548 |61,00|2,215 |2,998 |
|Westminster| | |0 | | |
|Royal Bank |50,497 |4,750 |19,50|687 |1,009 |
|of Scotland| | |0 | | |
|Standard |38,934 |7,757 |1,100|1 |- |
|Chartered | | | | | |

Figure 1.

Major Banks lending to British Residents December 1995.

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Table 4.

Largest Building Societies.
|Rank by Group |Rank After Flotations |Group Assets (million|
|Assets |and Mergers in 1977 |pounds) |
|1. Halifax. |- |98,655 |
|2. Nationwide. |1 |35,742 |
|3.Woolwich |- |28,005 |
|4. Alliance & |- |22,846 |
|Leicester | | |
|5. Bradford & |2 |15,658 |
|Bingley | | |
|6. Britannia |3 |14,916 |
|7.National & |- |14,133 |
|Provincial | | |
|8.Northern Rock |- |11,559 |
|9.Bristrol & West|- |8,589 |
|10. Birmingham |4 |6,725 |
|Mdshires | | |
|11. Yorkshire |5 |6,412 |
|12.Portman |6 |3,513 |
|13.Coventry |7 |3,379 |
|14.Skipton |8 |3,037 |

Table 5.

Overseas Banks in Britain

(Main Countries Represented).
|Country of |Branches of|British |Represen|Other|Tota|
|origin |an Overseas|Incorporated |tative | |l |
| |Bank |Subsidiary of an |offices | | |
| | |Overseas Bank | | | |
|France |16 |8 |23 |- |47 |
|Germany |19 |5 |4 |- |28 |
|Italy |15 |1 |28 |- |44 |
|Japan |28 |6 |15 |4 |53 |
|Switzerland |9 |2 |17 |- |28 |
|United |23 |9 |11 |6 |49 |
|States | | | | | |
|Other |153 |41 |111 |7 |312 |
|countries | | | | | |
|Total |263 |72 |209 |17 |561 |

Source: Bank of England.

Table 6.

General and Long-term Insurance Business 1985 - 1995.

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General Insurance net premiums.

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Table 7.

Growth in Unit Trusts and Investment Trusts.

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Definitions.

|Assets - |anything owned by an individual, company, legal |
| |body or government which has a cash value. |
|Big Bang - |a system of major changes which brought |
| |deregulation to the London Stock Exchange in 1986.|
|Bill of |an officially signed promise to pay to the |
|Exchange - |receiver of the bill, the stated at the fixed |
| |time. |
|Bond - |a certificate issued by the borrower as a receipt |
| |for a loan usually longer than 12 months; it |
| |indicates the interest rate and the date of |
| |repayment. |
|Eurobond- |an international certificate issued by the |
| |borrower for a long-term loan (from 5 to 15 years)|
| |in any European currency but not in the currency |
| |of the issuing bank. |
|Securities- |general term for stocks and shares of all types. |
|Exchange- |a market for the toll purchase of goods or |
| |securities. |
|Stock |a market for short or long term transactions in |
|Exchange- |securities . |
|Commodity |a stable market for wholesale transactions in |
|Exchange- |preferably commodities and raw materials |
|Money Market- |a market for money instruments with a period of |
| |validity of less than one year. |
|Factoring- |a business activity in which a company takes over |
| |the responsibility for collecting the debts of |
| |another company. |
|Fund |managing investors’ funds on their behalf or |
|Management- |advising investors on how to invest their funds. |
|Financial |legal contracts for the sale or purchase of |
|Futures- |financial products on a specified future date, at |
| |the price agreed in the present. |
|Option- |A contract giving the right to buy or sell |
| |financial instruments or goods for a stated period|
| |at a stated price. |
|The London |The international gold and silver market in London|
|Bullion Market|where trade is done by a telephone or electronic |
|- |links. |
|Hedge |The purchase or sale futures contract as a |
| |temporary substitute for a transaction to be made |
| |at a later date |
|Open-Ended |A fund without a fixed number of shares |
|Fund- | |
|Quite-edged |Loans issued on behalf of the Government to fund |
|loans - |its spending. |

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