It has long had a small British operation in Cornhill, a general insurer, but it would still be able to extract only a few cost savings.
Mr Cable suggested in his speech that the future business bank could work with commercial banks such as the UK's Co-Op, and the British operation of Swedish lender Handelsbanken.
Clarke clearly feels more relaxed about what is going on in the core British operation, given that he has handed over the national levers to a new UK MD.
Its audience, measured by page-views, is far larger than that of any other British Internet operation, and is second only to Yahoo, the world's most successful site.
Within that there was a much smaller British press operation, very different in tone but struggling to try to get some real information out because of the tutelage of the Americans over the whole thing.
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This being England, there was also room for heroic failures as well, such as the retreats from Dunkirk and Corunna, thus confirming to the untutored foreign observer that the preferred mode of British military operation is the successful evacuation.
The British-led operation involved about 3, 000 troops -- mostly from the British military but also with Afghan, Danish and Estonian forces, the British Ministry of Defence said in a written statement.
The hot-tempered Brennan also blew the existence of - and then tried to grab the credit for - a joint British-Saudi operation that disrupted a second underwear-bomber plot originating in Yemen last spring.
However, the UK Government may come under fire from the opposition Conservative Party, which called for the army to be withdrawn after a British soldier died during September's daring operation to rescue British troops held hostage by the West Side Boys militia.
The British army officially ended Operation Banner in Northern Ireland , its longest continuous operation.
They will also discuss deeper security co-operation as British and French force numbers are increased in neighbouring Mali.
The rescue followed a weeks-long operation led by British troops and involving US and Canadian special forces, and information gleaned from two detainees just three hours before the rescue.
Declaring his visit "an opportunity to open a new era of British-Iranian co-operation, " Mr. Straw sought to enlist the Iranians by appealing to their own opposition to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Nobody under the age of 50 is remotely surprised to see a man once trusted to run the information operation of the British government arrested, or to see the Met admit that "a small group of officers" took payment.
His accomplice, Stephen Devalda, was arrested in Spain in 2011 in a joint operation between Spanish and British authorities and has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.
Michael Brough of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons said the operation itself was relatively straightforward.
Mr Campbell was arrested in 2008 in a sting operation involving Lithuanian, Irish and British secret services.
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The British government expressed its support for the French operation.
British Transport Police were also involved in the operation and visited 11 scrap metal dealers north and south of the border as part of their ongoing commitment to tackling metal theft.
Once the intervention began, the British along the French shouldered the burden of the operation.
Under Tony Blair, the British government was intent on securing Libyan co-operation in the war on terror after the country renounced its programme of weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
Operation Tor Shezada is only possible because extra British forces have been brought in to Afghanistan.
The change in military strategy was described by British officials as a "difficult and high risk" operation.
In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.
Although it has not supplied combat troops, the British government has made available two aircraft to assist the operation, which it says is vital for stabilising the country and ensuring it does not become a safe haven for terrorists groups linked to al-Qaeda.
On May 2nd the News of the World, a British Sunday tabloid, published an account of a sting operation in which John Higgins, the world's top-ranked snooker player, and his agent Patrick Mooney, appeared to agree to accept bribes in return for losing specific frames in future contests.
HSBC, a British bank, announced plans to set up a new online operation.
As the operation draws to a close, it is clear that British and American troops are still the powers behind the fight in Helmand.
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