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I expect the UK online banking site is a decendant of Alliance & Leicester's site.

Santander bought A&L a few years ago when they got into trouble during the credit crunch. Before then, Santander was not trading in the UK.

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Small correction: they were trading in the UK, just not under the name "Santander" - they had owned Abbey (formerly Abbey National) for a few years before they bought A&L and then merged them under the new (to the UK) Santander name.

You're right, they bought abbey first. Completely forget about that. It's probably a descendant of the abbey online site then.

It was Abbey, no?

The site is identical in except for the name change to the previous Abbey site. (Which I have used for years) They changed the log in process to the current username/number/passcode setup about 2 years ago if I remember correctly.

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