Catholic Building Society
It was the 57th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £44 million at 31 December 2007.[2] The Society started at 49 Harrington Road, Kensington; in 1966 it moved to Great Peter Street, Westminster, sharing the Westminster diocesan offices, under the patronage of Canon Adrian Arrowsmith.[3] It prided itself on making affordable home loans available to people with lower than average incomes, giving a high proportion of its home loans to single women.[4] Vincent Byrne retired from the Society in 1967, remaining as Honorary President until his death, aged 70, in 1978.On 5 July 2014, a firm called the Fair Investment Company of Bristol was advertising cash ISAs on behalf of the Catholic Building Society, in the form of a structured product related to the performance of the FTSE index.