 nationwide building society is a british mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the world. it has its headquarters in swindon, with an office in threadneedle street, london, and with administration centres based in bournemouth, northampton and dunfermline. made up of over a hundred mergers â most notably the merger between nationwide and the anglia building society in 1987 and between nationwide and portman in 2007 â it is now a top-three provider of household savings and mortgages in the uk. nationwide has assets of around Â£193.3 billionhttp://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/nationwide.co.uk/pdf/about_nationwide/halfyearlyaccounts2013.pdf compared to Â£325 billion for the entire building society sector,http://www.bsa.org.uk/keystats/index.htm making it larger than the remaining 44 british building societies combined. it is a member of the building societies association, the council of mortgage lenders and co-operatives uk.http://www.nationwide.co.uk/about_nationwide/membership_matters/history/history.htm ==history== the society's origins lie in the northampton town & county freehold land society (1848) and the southern co-operative permanent building society, london (1884). the co-operative permanent changed its name to nationwide building society in 1970, reflecting an organisation that had coverage throughout the country. the new name was put to a member vote, with members voting 135,675 to 15,585 in favour.https://www.facebook.com/nationwidebuildingsociety/timeline/1970 in 1987, the northampton-based anglia building society merged with nationwide. the new society was known as nationwide anglia building society at first, but the anglia name was dropped in 1992. nationwide launched the uk's first internet banking service on 27 may 1997.http://web.archive.org/web/200709270
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