How was Abbey National expanded,  leading to the forming of Cahoot?
The bank expanded through a number of acquisitions in the 1990s
Title: Cater Allen
Passage: Cater Allen is a private bank operating in the United Kingdom.  It is a subsidiary of Santander UK.  Tracing its history back to a bank founded in Blackburn in 1816, it was independent for 180 years, before being purchased in 1997 by Abbey National.  Cater Allen Offshore was initially run as a separate enterprise within Abbey, but in 2001 it was merged with Abbey National Offshore.
Title: Cahoot
Passage: cahoot is the internet division of Santander UK plc, the British subsidiary of the Santander Group.  Cahoot was launched in June 2000, as the internet-based banking brand of Abbey National plc, and by December 2008, it had 750,000 customers.  Cahoot is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Title: Abbey National
Passage: Abbey National plc was a bank based in the United Kingdom and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name.  As the former Abbey National Building Society, it was the first building society in the United Kingdom to demutualise, doing so in July 1989.  The bank expanded through a number of acquisitions in the 1990s, including James Hay, Scottish Mutual, Scottish Provident and the rail leasing company Porterbrook.  Abbey National launched an online bank, Cahoot, in June 2000.
Abbey National Cahoot