United Building Society was a New Zealand building society, that became registered retail bank known as United Banking Group. It was acquired by the State Bank of South Australia in 1990, who sold the bank on to Countrywide Bank in 1992 after the bank made significant losses. The bank was merged with countrywide operations and the name was dropped in 1994.
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