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Book reviews: Tartan Pimps/Broonland
(22 Mar 2010 00:52)
... he was predicting the great financial crash while the chief executives of RBS and HBOS were sleepwalking to disaster. This is a racy read and the ideas shoot out ...
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Payback time
(22 Mar 2010 00:54)
... debts, there is still a long way to go. The bank, which took over HBOS at the height of the financial crisis, will take years to cleanse its loan ...
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As Grant Bovey commiserates his NINTH firm going bust, what about the real victims?
(21 Mar 2010 00:59)
... October 2008 - but by then it was too late to salvage the company. HBOS initially loaned 13million to Imagine Homes, then backed that up with a further 37.5 ...
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Aegon UK's winning team: Adrian Grace, chief operating officer (life & pensions), Aegon UK
(21 Mar 2010 08:44)
... is varied. It’s multiple industries: software with Sage, insurance with Barclays, commercial banking with HBOS. I’ve worked in financial services, credit cards, auto-financing, lending with GE Capital, and now ...
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Watchdog likely to snub Holyrood bank inquiry request
(21 Mar 2010 09:22)
... requested by [Business Secretary] Lord Mandelson, on the competition situation following the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB. “As such, before the divestments required of Royal Bank of Scotland ...
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HBOS
(19 Mar 2010 12:21)
Trade times are ET. News times are ET. Bid/ask/vol sizes in thousands. Nasdaq Indicators -- Market: Nasdaq -- Bid Tick: Down -- UPC Restricted: ...
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Lloyds cheers City with vow to return to black this year
(20 Mar 2010 00:22)
... on a combined basis in 2010". The "combined basis" means taken together with the HBOS business that includes Bank of Scotland, which it acquired early last year. On the ...
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Shares in Lloyds gain 8% on forecast of profit this year
(20 Mar 2010 04:50)
... Lloyds, which was formed by Lloyds TSB’s rescue takeover of Bank of Scotland parent HBOS and is now 41%-owned by the UK taxpayer, highlighted lower-than-expected bad debt provisions. Joe ...
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Optimism as Lloyd's posts lower than expected losses
(20 Mar 2010 06:44)
... in bad debts during 2009 - mainly due to the toxic debts in the HBOS loan book - which led to a £6.3bn loss last year. But the group ...
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Letters, Thursday, March 18, 2010
(20 Mar 2010 14:30)
... nationalisation of Northern Rock, to date a disastrous merger between Lloyds Banking Group and HBOS that has resulted in thousands of nationwide redundancies, with many more to come. But, ...
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Lloyds signals return to profit in 2010
(19 Mar 2010 09:19)
... in bad debts during 2009 - mainly due to the toxic debts in the HBOS l ADVERTISEMENT oan book - which led to a 6.3 billion loss last year. ...
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Lloyds to return to profit this year
(19 Mar 2010 17:32)
... for disposals. The bank, created by the government-engineered takeover last year of ailing lender HBOS by high street rival Lloyds TSB, has been hit by spiralling bad debts -- ...
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Following high street banks' advice can damage your wealth
(20 Mar 2010 00:12)
... reaped in returns, according to Morris. Of the five banks featured in the research, HBOS fared best over five years, with just 10.4 per cent of the 14.5bn under ...
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Lloyds flags profit return
(20 Mar 2010 05:42)
... the first 10 weeks of 2010 and has clamped down on costs after the HBOS merger. In February's annual results, it increased annual cost saving targets to GBP2 billion ...
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MSPs demand probe into Scottish banking sector
(18 Mar 2010 15:19)
... Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) both needed "massive UK government intervention" to survive, and HBOS also merged with Lloyds TSB. The Scottish Parliament Information Centre estimated RBS and the ...
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