Virgin Money

Virgin Money is a UK-based financial services company owned by the Virgin Group and founded by Sir Richard Branson in March 1995. It was originally known as Virgin Direct, and pioneered index tracking by launching a value Personal Equity Plan into the market. Virgin Money currently offers a number of products, most of which are run in conjunction with other financial service providers. As of 2008 it offers the Virgin Credit Card (issued by MBNA),... more

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English industrialist, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student. He then set up an audio record mail-order business in...

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