HBOS plc

United Kingdom banking and insurance company
Organization bank Q1538443
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HBOS plc

Summary

HBOS plc is a bank[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of bank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,067 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • HBOS plc is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • HBOS plc is in the country of GB[4].
  • HBOS plc's instance of is recorded as bank[5].
  • HBOS plc's instance of is recorded as insurance[6].
  • HBOS plc's instance of is recorded as holding company[7].
  • HBOS plc's instance of is recorded as business[8].
  • HBOS plc's instance of is recorded as enterprise[9].
  • HBOS plc's headquarters location is recorded as Edinburgh[10].
  • HBOS plc's child organization or unit is recorded as Bank of Scotland[11].
  • HBOS plc's Commons category is recorded as HBOS[12].
  • HBOS plc's industry is recorded as financial services[13].
  • HBOS plc's industry is recorded as financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[14].
  • HBOS plc's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[15].
  • September 10, 2001 marks the founding of HBOS plc[16].
  • 2001-05-03 marks the founding of HBOS plc[17].
  • HBOS plc was dissolved in January 19, 2009[18].
  • HBOS plc's parent organization or unit is recorded as gleif:H7FNTJ4851HG0EXQ1Z70[19].
  • HBOS plc's parent organization or unit is recorded as Lloyds Banking Group[20].
  • HBOS plc's official website is recorded as http://www.hbosplc.com/[21].
  • HBOS plc's product or material produced is recorded as financial services[22].
  • HBOS plc's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+72000'}[23].
  • HBOS plc's legal form is recorded as public limited company[24].
  • HBOS plc's legal form is recorded as B6ES[25].
  • HBOS plc's different from is recorded as HBO[26].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800RS21X7UUH5QU25[27]

  • Registered legal name: Hbos PLC[28]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[29]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[30]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): B6ES[31]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[32]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[33]

  • Entity created: 2001-05-03[34]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-05-22[35]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-04-30[36]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-05-24[37]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[38]

  • Registration authority: RA000587[39]

  • Authority entity ID: SC218813[40]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[41]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include September 10, 2001[16] and 2001-05-03[17].

Operations

HBOS plc's headquarters location is recorded as Edinburgh[10]. Parent organizations include gleif:H7FNTJ4851HG0EXQ1Z70[19] and Lloyds Banking Group[20], a financial institution[42], in United Kingdom[43], founded in 2009[44], headquartered in London[45]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as Bank of Scotland[11].

Industry

Industries include financial services[13] and financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[14].

Ownership

HBOS plc's product or material produced is recorded as financial services[22].

Dissolution

HBOS plc was dissolved in January 19, 2009[18].

Why It Matters

HBOS plc ranks in the top 4% of bank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,067 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Parent organization or unit → gleif:H7FNTJ4851HG0EXQ1Z70, Lloyds Banking Group
    Country → United Kingdom, GB
    Different from → HBO
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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