Barclays Plc bought the bank arm of British insurer Standard Life Plc for 226 million pounds ($369 million) on Monday, in a move to build up its UK mortgage and savings business.

Barclays said under the deal to buy Standard Life Bank it will get a mortgage book with 8.8 billion pounds of outstanding balances and a savings book of about 5.5 billion pounds.

About 270 Standard Life employees will transfer to Barclays when the deal completes.

Barclays was in talks to buy Standard Life Bank in a deal likely to be worth between 200 million and 300 million pounds, a person familiar with the matter said in September.

(Reporting by Steve Slater; Editing by David Holmes)

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