 The company was established as Kent Reliance in 1847.KRBS was the fastest growing building society in the UK between 2003 and 2008 and was a member of the Building Societies Association.The dramatic growth of KRBS was driven in part by the establishment in 2002 of a wholly owned subsidiary, Jersey Home Loans Limited, to buy the Jersey mortgage business of Standard Chartered Grindlays Bank Ltd. By September 2008, this subsidiary had mortgages on its books of over £700 million.