Alliance & Leicester plc and its subsidiaries provide a comprehensive range of banking and financial services to personal, and business and public sector customers in the United Kingdom. It offers retail banking products, such as mortgages, retail savings, current accounts, and personal loans, as well as legal and general life assurance, and long term investment products. Its commercial banking services include money transmission; lending; business, telephone, and Internet banking; and treasury services. The company has a network of approximatley 2,500 ATMs throughout the United Kingdom. Alliance & Leicester was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Narborough, the United Kingdom.