Albemarle & Bond Holdings PLC is a United Kingdom-based holding company. The principal activity of the Company is pawnbroking. It also offers second-hand and jewellery retailing, cheque cashing, pay-day advances, unsecured loans, money transfer/ exchange and gold purchasing. The subsidiaries of the Company are Albemarle & Bond Jewellers & Pawnbrokers Limited engaged in pawnbroking, unsecured lending and jewellery sales; Herbert Brown & Son Limited engaged in pawnbroking, unsecured lending and jewellery sales; Albemarle & Bond Cheque Cashers Limited; Speedloan Finance Limited engaged in unsecured lending; Chantry Collections Limited engaged in recovery of debts, and Albemarle & Bond Trustee Limited, which is a corporate trustee.