Nationwide is a British building society and mutual financial institution. Headquartered in Swindon, it has additional offices in Glasgow, Bournemouth, Northampton and London. Formed by more than 100 mergers, Nationwide has more than 15 million members and is the largest building society in the world.
Nationwide is a British building society and mutual financial institution. Headquartered in Swindon, it has additional offices in Glasgow, Bournemouth, Northampton and London. Formed by more than 100 mergers, Nationwide has more than 15 million members and is the largest building society in the world.
Nationwide is a British building society and mutual financial institution. Headquartered in Swindon, it has additional offices in Glasgow, Bournemouth, Northampton and London. Formed by more than 100 mergers, Nationwide has more than 15 million members and is the largest building society in the world.
What is now Nationwide began life in the nineteenth century, with the Northampton Town & County Freehold Land Society and the Southern Co-operative Permanent Building Society. The Co-operative Permanent changed its name to Nationwide Building Society in 1970, merging with Anglia Building Society in 1987. The new company was initially known as Nationwide Anglia Building Society but changed to simply Nationwide in 1992.
After the financial crisis of 2008, Nationwide acted to protect the mutual financial sector and acquired several smaller building societies.
Nationwide is committed to maintaining its mutual status and was by far the biggest British building society that didn’t convert to bank status in the wave of demutualisations of the late 1980s. Subsequent proposals to change to full bank status have not been actioned.
Nationwide business customers can choose from a range of savings accounts with strong interest rates. These include notice accounts, fixed-rate accounts and instant access accounts.
These accounts are designed for SMEs with no more than 250 employees and a turnover of less than £45million. A range of corporate banking accounts are available for larger companies.
Nationwide members who have a current account, savings account or mortgage get a better rate of interest when taking out a loan (although loans are available to non-members as well). Customers must earn at least £700 a month. Once agreed, funds can be cleared into the borrowers’ account within two hours.
Nationwide also offers a range of current and savings accounts, cash ISAs and Junior ISAs.
Nationwide is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Deposits of up to £85,000 are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide House
Pipers Way
Swindon
SN38 1NW
Telephone: 0800 302011
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Customer Service is fantastic in you Derry branch the North of Ireland is 5 star in everything the staff in every aspect in my customer visits pleasant helpful and explain everything for me and on line is so easy
I was scammed recently buying a travel ticket on Nationwide credit card. Even though Nationwide Bank confirmed my payment and know that I did not receive the ticket, Nationwide still maintain it was a valid transaction and I lost my money. It is visible that it was scam and the fact that I did not receive the product is enough for Nationwide to help reclaim my money. I reported this to the police and they were also shocked by Nationwide Bank action. To people, using or trying to use Nationwide, their fraud investigation system is really not fit for purpose and they aid these fraudsters get away. You can't even get a got transaction list to reconcile your account except you depend on them sending them to you. Their interest calculation is not transparent that can allow individual re-calculate and they make so much mistakes. Beware
Nationwide once again has dropped me in it when I am abroad, this time it has forced its customer to upgrade to the app that does not work.
In the past Nationwide worked for its members and it is clear from the scores here that is no longer the case. I will be closing all of my accounts at the earliest opertunity as they are not fit for purpose and can clearly not be trusted.
I rang the bank due to receiving a fraudulent message about my parcel asking me to pay £2 for a new label to get it delivered to me,i stupidly payed this before ringing amazon and them telling me it was a scam.I rang nationwide and they quickly dealt with the issue and cancelled this account from ever being able to take money out of my account again as they now have my details.Even offering extra support as to not let this happen again giving me advice that if they call or message again to get them to leave a message for the banks evidence.The lady on the phone was extremely supportive and kind and i would like to thank nationwide for having such great customer service especially over something that was 100% my fault for believing.
