13 results about this entity
Period: 30 Oct 2006 - 25 Jul 2011
News
Yorkshire Building Society is to buy the Egg brand and its £2.5 billion savings book and £430 million mortgage portfolio from Citigroup.
25 July 2011
Barclays has agreed a deal to buy the credit card accounts of Citibank's UK online unit Egg for an undisclosed sum.
01 March 2011
Barclays has emerged as a leading bidder for online bank Egg, which has been put up for auction by current owner Citi, according to media reports.
11 October 2010
UK Internet bank Egg is introducing a new payment verification service that uses SMS text messaging to send one-time authorisation codes to customers moving money in and out of their accounts.
24 September 2010
Citi plans to put UK online banking unit Egg up for auction as part of its ongoing disposal of non-core assets, according to the Financial Times.
04 August 2010
NatWest Visa debit card holders have been unable to make payments to Egg credit cards via the latter's Web site for over two months because of a database glitch.
29 January 2010
US security firm SafeNet is gearing up to launch an online PIN issuance system that was developed in partnership with UK Web banking outfit Egg.
17 September 2008
The majority of credit card holders want to manage their accounts via the Web, according to a UK study from customer research outfit Global Reviews which found that Lloyds TSB provided the best online experience for card customers.
11 April 2008
A group of former Egg employees, led by Paul Gratton, have taken a controlling stake in direct mortgage broker MoneyQuest. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
17 March 2008
UK Internet bank Egg is currently offline after service provider Cable and Wireless (C&W) admitted to "experiencing some issues on our network".
23 August 2007
UK insurer Prudential is selling its British Internet banking operation Egg to Citigroup for around £575 million ($1.127 billion) in cash.
29 January 2007
UK insurer Prudential has confirmed that it has rejected an approach for its loss making Web banking operation Egg. The move followed reports that American banking giant Citigroup was considering launching a rumoured £950 million bid for the Internet bank.
11 December 2006
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