Halifax

Okay.

This particular robber seemed to forget the fact as he attempted to rob the Halifax Bank in London.

Oh, that's like a big bang.

Yeah, yeah.

But there are instances where it can work the opposite way as well.

So if you look at the likes of Lloyds Bank and Halifax, they have the same owner, but they operate under separate licenses.

So you get two lots of £120,000 worth of protection because they're not operating under one license.

Again, this is the important nuance.

Part of the process of divorce was a failed attempt to move to Europe.

I spent three months in the UK working for Halifax Bank of Scotland.

My boss from the job that I left to make that failed attempt at keeping things together had not replaced me and rehired me on the spot.

He had taken a chance on me when I left teaching and coaching and allowed me to work.

I mean, they again were chillers.

We fitted them at Halifax Bank head office in...

In Halifax, strangely enough, it was a building society at the time.

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So, for example, all the building society managers, bank managers, I used to specialize in difficult cases or getting things through on the finance and mortgage side.

So I would literally get called from my pal at the Halifax saying, "Unfortunately, somebody's declared this CCJ.

We can't help them.

Can you do it?" I said, "Oh yeah, I'll take him to my mate in Barclays." At the time, we didn't have a check or whatever.

Yeah.

And I'd be interviewing people in Barclays offices to do a Halifax mortgage or vice versa or this kind of thing.

Then it was all done on your word.

Yeah, yeah.

In the UK right now, there's probably maybe 80 lending institutions of varying degrees.

A lot of those would be the high street banks that you see, the Barclays, the Santander, the West, the Halifax.

Then you get sort of secondary lenders, smaller banks, TSB, Clydesdale, Virgin Money.

And then you get the building societies nationwide, obviously being the biggest one.

It is a real positive.

Yeah, and you're right, Jess, it is baby steps.

If anyone thinks this is now going to be, you know, you're going to see an advert from Halifax suggesting that Bitcoin is something they can work with, you might have a long wait.

So this particular, the way this lender explained it to us is they used it as an income enhancer.