Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society
Company type	Building society, (mutual)
Industry	Banking and financial services
Founded	1884
Headquarters	Swindon, England
Number of locations	686
Key people	Kevin Parry (chairman); Debbie Crosbie (chief executive);
Products	Retail banking; savings; mortgages; investments; insurance; current accounts; loans; credit cards;
Revenue	£3.86 billion (2022)
Operating income	£1.60 billion (2022)
Net income	£1.25 billion (2022)
Total assets	£272 billion (2022)
Total equity	£15.7 billion (2022)
Number of employees	17,686 (2022); 18,644 (2021);
Website	Official website
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Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution, the seventh largest cooperative financial institution^[2] and the largest building society in the world with over 16 million members.^[3] Its headquarters are in Swindon, England.

Nationwide is made up of around 250 different building societies. Among the most significant mergers were those with the Anglia Building Society in 1987 and the Portman Building Society in 2007. It is now the second largest provider of household savings and mortgages in the UK and has a 10.3% market share of current accounts for the 2021/2022 financial year.^[1]^: 15

For the financial year 2021/2022, Nationwide had assets of around £272.4 billion^[1]^: 57 compared to £483 billion for the entire building society sector,^[4] making it larger than the remaining 42 British building societies combined.

It is a member of the Building Societies Association, the Council of Mortgage Lenders and Co-operatives UK.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Nationwide Building Society: Annual Report & Accounts 2022 (PDF) (Report). Nationwide. 19 May 2022.
^ Global300 Report 2010: The world's major co-operatives and mutual businesses (PDF) (Report). International Co-operative Alliance. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ Flinders, Karl (16 December 2021). "Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud". Computer Weekly.
^ "Building Societies Association Factsheet" (PDF). Building Societies Association. June 2022.
^ "Our History". Nationwide Building Society. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.

[AR-1] Nationwide Building Society: Annual Report & Accounts 2022 (PDF) (Report). Nationwide. 19 May 2022.

[2] Global300 Report 2010: The world's major co-operatives and mutual businesses (PDF) (Report). International Co-operative Alliance. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2018.

[3] Flinders, Karl (16 December 2021). "Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud". Computer Weekly.

[4] "Building Societies Association Factsheet" (PDF). Building Societies Association. June 2022.

[5] "Our History". Nationwide Building Society. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.

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