Logo Quiz of the Day : 391

Hint: 6th largest bank in Canada.
Answer: National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada is the 6th largest bank and 7th largest financial institution in Canada. The bank's headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec. There are 446 branches, the vast majority of which are in Quebec, Ontario  and New Brunswick, and 2.35 million personal clients. The bank also has representative offices or branches in Havana, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Nassau, New York City, and a subsidiary of 2 branches in Florida named Natbank.

The bank is mainly used by French-speaking Canadians, with the majority of bank branches being centred in the province of Quebec.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 390

Hint: Italy-based, pan-European banking organization.
Answer: UniCredit SpA
UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with over 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries. UniCredit's core markets are Italy, Austria and Southern Germany, and it also has substantial operations in Central & Eastern Europe. The UniCredit Group has investment banking divisions in London, Milan and Munich.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 389

Hint: Victim of the credit crisis from Queen's land.
Answer: Bradford & Bingley
Bradford & Bingley plc is a British bank with headquarters in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley. In 2008, partly due to the credit crunch, the bank was nationalised and in effect split into two parts; the mortgage book remained with the now nationalised Bradford & Bingley plc, and the deposits and branch network (and a licence to use the B&B name for those aspects) was sold to Abbey National plc, itself owned by the Spanish bank Grupo Santander. Since 11 January 2010 the branch network has been rebranded Santander  and the Bradford & Bingley name now solely relates to the nationalised section of the bank.
The bank was formed in December 2000 by demutualisation of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society following a vote of the building society's members, who swapped their nominal share of the building society for at least 250 shares of the newly formed bank.

New puzzle game.

I have created a new Slide/Slider/Sliding Puzzle game for my blog. The game goes like this: the initial image is cut in square-like pieces; the bottom right piece is removed and the pieces are scrambled. Now swap the pieces around until you reconstruct the initial image!

To play the game click here: Logo Quiz Puzzle Game

Please ensure that you play the game in Internet Explorer (IE) because I have tested the game only on IE and yet to test this game on other browsers.

Updates:  I have tweaked the game and now it runs fine on Firefox too.

Let me know how you liked the game

Logo Quiz of the Day : 388

Hint: Logo is not used since takeover but the name is.
Answer: Abbey National plc
Abbey National plc which for the last few years of its existence traded under the brand name Abbey, a name by which it was commonly known for many years, was a United Kingdom-based bank and former building society. It was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain from 2004. Abbey was rebranded as Santander on 11 January 2010 along with Bradford & Bingley's savings business with the business becoming Santander UK plc.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 387

Hint: Watch County cricket for the answer.
Answer: National Westminster Bank Plc
National Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is a retail bank in the United Kingdom that has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. It was established in 1968 by the merger of National Provincial Bank (established 1833 as National Provincial Bank of England) and Westminster Bank (established 1834 as London County and Westminster Bank). Traditionally considered one of the Big Four clearing banks, NatWest has a large network of 1,600 branches and 3,400 cash machines across Great Britain and offers 24-hour Actionline telephone and online banking services. In Northern Ireland it operates through its Ulster Bank subsidiary.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 386

Hint: Banking in the southern hemisphere.
Answer: Westpac
Westpac, is a multinational Financial services company and became the largest bank in Australia  (by market capitalisation) after it took over St.George Bank, and the second-largest bank in New Zealand. The bank is one of the Australian 'big four' banks, joining NAB, ANZ, and the Commonwealth Bank.

As of the merger with St.George in December 2008 the bank has 10 million customers, Australia's largest branch network with almost 1200 branches and an ATM network with more than 2800 ATMs. The bank is Australia's second largest provider of home lending and Australia's second largest provider of wealth platforms by funds under Administration. The bank is Australia's second largest business banking lender and Australia's second largest bank by assets.

Westpac was recognised by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index as the most sustainable bank in the world for five years running, until ANZ who shared the title in 2007 was solely awarded in 2008.