demutualisation
Noun
Meaning
demutualisation (plural demutualisations)
Alternative spelling of demutualization
Examples
As Tayler (2003) refers, demutualisation moves succeeded immediately because neither Conservative nor Labour party UK governments created a framework which put obstacles in the way of demutualisation.
But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the courts found against the two-year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself to circumvent the intent of the legislators.
The method usually adopted were membership rules to ensure that anyone newly joining a society would, for the first few years, be unable to get any profit out of a demutualisation.
The process began with the demutualisation of the Abbey National Building Society in 1989.
These powers have been used by the Britannia in 2009 and Kent Reliance in 2011 leading to their demutualisation.
With three further mergers in each of 2009 and 2010, and a demutualisation and a merger in 2011, there are now 44 building societies.