Significats de onesavings en anglès

Golding declined to specify whether OneSavings was in any active deal talks.

Mid-cap banks OneSavings, Shawbrook and Virgin Money all fell more than 20 percent.

Virgin Money and Metro Bank declined to comment, while OneSavings Bank could not immediately be reached.

Sky News in July reported OneSavings is interested in buying some of Bradford & Bingley's mortgage loans.

OneSavings sells mortgages through independent brokers.

Shares in OneSavings were down 2.3 percent at 285 pence at 1113 GMT.

OneSavings said on Wednesday it would achieve its full-year net loan book growth target and double-digit growth in 2017.

Shares in OneSavings Bank, which offers residential mortgages, buy-to-let and SME loans, rose nearly 6 percent in morning trade.

Some £50m was injected into Kent Reliance four years ago through the private equity firm JC Flowers, creating OneSavings Bank.

OneSavings Bank Plc also said in March that it was open to takeover offers and was hoping for more consolidation.

Virgin Money, TSB and OneSavings Bank listed last year and the British government is also selling its shares in Lloyds Banking Group.

Challenger bank OneSavings Bank Plc on Thursday agreed to buy its rival, online mortgage bank Charter Court Financial, in an all-share deal.

OneSavings, which saw growth in lending backed by a recovery in the buy-to-let market, said the housing market remained supportive of buy-to-let mortgages.

The move follows that of OneSavings Bank, which in June became the first bank to list in London in more than a decade.

However, earnings from France's Natixis and OneSavings Bank pushed their shares up 2.3 percent and 2.9 percent respectively.

The bidding field includes rival lender Virgin Money as well as private equity-backed OneSavings Bank, which is held by JC Flowers, the sources said.