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Welcome to the About Nationwide site. Here you can find out all about your Society, from the ways we are listening to you and turning your suggestions for improvement into reality to how we support many national and local good causes.
Nationwide has mutual (as opposed to Public Limited Company) status, which means that we are owned by and run for the benefit of our members.
We are the UK's fourth largest mortgage lender and second largest savings provider. More significantly, we are the largest building society in the world.
Our approach to providing financial services is incredibly straight-forward. We aim to offer a broad range of great value mortgages, savings and other financial products, while charging as little as possible for day-to-day services.
We take pride in doing our best for our members and championing the rights of all consumers. We fought for honesty and transparency in the credit card market and were the first provider to publish a Summary Box on all our credit card information. The Summary Box highlights all fees and charges which most providers hide in their small print. All UK credit card providers publish Summary Boxes which enable consumers to compare cards from different providers, and allow them to make a more informed choice.
We've over 150 years of expertise and experience at being a building society, looking after the interests of our members. And we intend to deliver great value to our members as a modern, mutual building society for many years to come.
Our dual origins lie in Northampton (1848) and within the co-operative movement in London (1883) respectively. Over a hundred mergers later - most notably the merger between the Nationwide and the Anglia Building Societies in 1987 - we are now the UK's fourth largest mortgage lender and ninth largest retail banking, saving and lending organisation by asset size. More significantly, we are the largest building society in the world and are committed to staying mutual.
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