By 1875 it had over 150 branches and was the largest British bank.

Why should they come all the way here to knock over a British bank?

If you take the largest ten banks in the world, there's not a single British bank among them.

"They can drive over and do business in their own language," the representative of one British bank said.

The mother of three, who speaks five languages, became the first woman to run a major British bank.

There'll be a run on a British banks like no tomorrow!

He was running the global computer systems for a 150-year-old British bank and earning $300,000 a year.

British banks cut key interest rates today by half a percentage point, to 9 percent.

There is also some €2.3bn invested by British banks too.

British banks are in a particularly strong position to do deals outside their home country.