United Kingdom · Financial institution
Yorkshire Building Society
Yorkshire Building Society is a UK building society with its head office in Bradford. It is owned by its members and has no external shareholders. It offers residential mortgages and savings, and it also trades as Chelsea Building Society and Norwich & Peterborough Building Society. Its subsidiary Accord Mortgages Limited lends through mortgage intermediaries.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- YORBGB2VXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under YORBGB2V directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1994-12-03
- Last updated
- 2018-01-06
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Member-owned
Institution type
Credit union / building society
Trades as YBS
- Ownership
- The society is a mutual owned by its members and has no external shareholders.
- Head office
- Yorkshire House, Yorkshire Drive, BD5 8LJ Bradford, United Kingdom
- Company register
- FCA Financial Services Register FRN 106085
Business lines
According to its 2026 half-yearly report, the group operates only in UK retail financial services, lending on mortgages funded mainly by retail savings.
Online
- Websites & references
- ybs.co.uk ↗
ybscareers.co.uk ↗ careers site
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗
Sources · 9 pages consulted
- ybs.co.uk/
- ybs.co.uk/your-society/society-governance/board
- ybs.co.uk/your-society/society-governance/execteam
- ybs.co.uk/your-society/financial-results
- ybs.co.uk/documents/d/ybs/ybs-half-yearly-financial-report-2026-pdf
- ybs.co.uk/w/2026-half-year-results-show-growth-in-mortgage-and-savings-balances
- webserver-ybs-prod.lfr.cloud/web/ybs/w/yorkshire-building-society-announces-new-chief-financial-officer
- investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/yorkshire-building-society--su37/directorate-change-re-release-/9440161
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Building_Society
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
-
Susan Allen
Chief Executive
- Chair
-
Annemarie Durbin
Board Chair
- Chief financial officer
-
Tom Ranger
Chief Financial Officer (left the Board on 1 September 2026; leaves the society on 30 September 2026)
- Executive
-
Richard Bowles
Chief Risk Officer
- Executive
-
Fraser Ingram
Chief Operating Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- United Kingdom
- Prudential Regulation Authority (Bank of England) Prudential supervisorCentral bankResolution
- United Kingdom
- Financial Conduct Authority ConductAML supervisor
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The society named James Mack as Chief Financial Officer and executive director, subject to regulatory approval. He is due to start in early 2027.
webserver-ybs-prod.lfr.cloud ↗ -
Leadership
Philippa Brown and Barry O'Dwyer joined the Board as independent non-executive directors on 2 June 2026.
ybs.co.uk ↗ -
Leadership
The society announced that CFO Tom Ranger would leave. Group Treasurer Lyndon Horwell is to act as interim CFO from 1 October 2026.
ybs.co.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Annemarie Durbin became Board Chair, succeeding John Heaps, who retired in April 2024.
ybs.co.uk ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- YORBGB2VXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- YORBBank
- GBCountry · United Kingdom
- 2VLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- WXD0EHQRPI7HKN3I5T57
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- YORKSHIRE HOUSE YORKSHIRE DRIVE BRADFORD BD5 8LJ UNITED KINGDOM
- Operational address
- YORKSHIRE HOUSE YORKSHIRE DRIVE BRADFORD BRADFORD BD5 8LJ UNITED KINGDOM
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>YORBGB2VXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>WXD0EHQRPI7HKN3I5T57</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>YORBGB2VXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>WXD0EHQRPI7HKN3I5T57</LEI>
<Nm>YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>BRADFORD</TwnNm>
<Ctry>GB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>YORKSHIRE HOUSE YORKSHIRE DRIVE BRADFORD BD5 8LJ</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
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