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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[£10 to charity for every first direct insurance policy sold]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/10_to_charity_for_every_first</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Two of Britain’s best known charities are set to benefit from a new initiative by first direct, the UK’s most recommended bank. For every life insurance policy it sells, the bank will give £10 to Marie Curie Cancer Care while every home insurance policy sold will generate a £10 donation to Shelter.]]></description>
      <pubDate>2006-07-11 10:14:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct becomes the first bank to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_becomes_the_first</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct has become the first bank to receive the Carbon Trust Standard after reducing its carbon emissions by over 14% which equates to an annual reduction of 1500 tonnes of CO2 from 2007 levels. The Carbon Trust Standard is the world's first carbon award that requires an organisation to measure...]]></description>
      <pubDate>2009-02-03 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct introduces two new market leading Base Rate tracker mortgages]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_introduces_two_ne</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct launched two new market leading Base Rate tracker mortgages available from Friday 5 December 2008. The offset Base Rate tracker mortgage tracks the Bank of England Base Rate for the life of the loan. It is priced at 1.49% above Base Rate and is currently 3.49% (APR 3.6%).]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-12-12 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Introducing the Little Black Book]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/introducing_the_little_black_b</link>
      <description><![CDATA[www.firstdirect.com/littleblackbook  first direct has launched the Little Black Book, an online community site exclusively for its customers. The first site of its kind to be offered by a UK bank, it is a unique source of information and personal recommendation...]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-12-05 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct is the UK's Top Call Centre for Customer Service]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_is_the_uks_top_ca</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct has come first in the latest research from the Top 50 Call Centres for Customer Service. The direct bank scored 92% in the UK's biggest ever call centre benchmarking exercise, conducted by independent market research company GfK NOP. The overall Top 50 average was 83%.  The research consisted of 20...]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-10-14 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[HSBC welcomes UK government's announcement]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/hsbc_welcomes_uk_governments_a</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HSBC's UK subsidiary will observe the tier 1 capital ratio requirement, funded from HSBC's internal resources. HSBC Holdings plc has no plans to utilise the recapitalisation scheme.  HSBC welcomes the UK government's proposals to provide liquidity and inject capital into the UK banking system.]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-10-08 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct to resume mortgage sales to non customers]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_to_resume_mortgag</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct will today resume selling mortgages to non customers.  The online and telephone bank temporarily stopped offering mortgages to new customers on 1 April after receiving five times its normal number of applications.]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-05-19 12:19:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct cuts mortgage rate after base rate change]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_cuts_mortgage_rat</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct has cut its standard variable mortgage rate by 0.25 per cent from today, 10 April 2008, passing on the full benefit of the Bank of England base rate reduction to its customers immediately.  The standard variable rate from the direct bank will now be 6.00%, one of the lowest from any major bank or building society.]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-04-10 12:50:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct to withdraw mortgage sales to non customers temporarily to restore customer service]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_to_withdraw_mortg</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Move will enable bank to clear backlog of applications - - Parent HSBC to make similar product available for non customers - first direct istemporarily withdrawing its mortgages, including its two-year fixed rate offset mortgage (4.95%), from sale to non first direct customers with effect from 5pm on Tuesday 1 April 2008.]]></description>
      <pubDate>2008-04-01 12:51:00</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[first direct launches market leading two year fixed rate offset mortgage at 4.99%]]></title>
      <link>http://newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_launches_market_l</link>
      <description><![CDATA[first direct the only bank to immediately pass on last week’s Bank of England base rate cut to all variable rate mortgage customers, has launched a market-leading two year fixed rate offset mortgage priced at 4.99% (6.6% APR). The rate is a limited offer available from today, Thursday 13 December. Following the fixed rate period...]]></description>
      <pubDate>2007-12-13 17:01:00</pubDate>
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