EBS Building Society

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Educational Building Society

Type	Mutuality
Founded	1935
Headquarters	Ballsbridge, Dublin Ireland
Key people	Ted McGovern, Chairman
Industry	Banking
Products	Banking products
Revenue	Unknown
Employees	1,000(2004)
Slogan	Altogether better
Website	www.ebs.ie

The EBS Building Society is Ireland's largest building society. Servicing more than 400,000 members, it distributes its products through its branch network as well as handling direct business both over the telephone and through the internet. It name originally derives from Educational Building Society, but it has been changed of EBS Building Society to better explain its activities. It is the last remaining Irish building society owned by its members. With branches throughout Ireland, alongside a state-of-the-art headquarters in Dublin's main business district, EBS offer mortgages, loans and savings accounts.

1 Operations
2 Systems
3 Awards
4 Website

[edit] Operations

As they are not a bank, they do not offer current accounts. However, through an agreement with AIB bank, an ATM card service for their members is operated through AIB's Banklink system, thus outsourcing this task to AIB. Credit cards are offered in conjunction with MBNA.

[edit] Systems

All workstations in the society run on Microsoft Windows XP Professional, and are managed by Novell logons. Lotus Notes provides the email system, database access and serves the website.

[edit] Awards

EBS have won the Irish Times award as "Best Company to work for in Ireland for 500 -1000 employees". EBS was noted highly on all key areas which included; credibility, respect, fairness, pride and camaraderie