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Metro Bank is thriving since I saved it from the doghouse
13 Dec 2025 13:09 GMT
… Royal Bank of Scotland (now NatWest), Northern Rock and a bank in … loans being rated as less risky than they really were.
• Metro Bank … his aspirations for Metro Bank: lending to small businesses … moved to the nationalised Northern Rock, another crisis victim, …
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It would be financial suicide to levy a £30 billion windfall tax on banks
13 Nov 2025 18:27 GMT
… notice that some our leading banks and building societies were trashed … Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Northern Rock Building Society, Bradford … , Barclays to 88p and Lloyds Banking to 25p by February 2009.
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Will you still be saddled with a mortgage in your seventies?
12 Sep 2025 23:29 GMT
… interest-only mortgage from Northern Rock before the lender collapsed during … knocked back by the banks and it was looking … an equity release loan through the lender Pure Retirement to … becoming easier.
Mortgage lenders are happier to lend to older borrowers …
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If you wanted to stop a banking crisis, would you ask Lord King?
11 Sep 2025 01:51 GMT
… Bank of England governor who presided over the 2007 run on Northern Rock … funds and pensions, shadow banking has grown rapidly since … tougher regulation of banks that pushed lending into other … private markets and shadow banking.
King appears to disagree …
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UK government's £37 billion bailout of Northern Rock in 2007 pays off
02 Apr 2025 22:08 GMT
… soon follow.
Northern Rock was Britain’s first bank run in over …
UK lenders plan to close record 762 branches as banks pivot … set up to manage the bank’s loans. The assets that remain … he bailed out Northern Rock, he insisted, other banks could behave even …
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Opinion: Bank fears Farage turmoil in No 10
28 Jul 2025 16:15 GMT
… (LDIs) but neither the Bank nor the Pensions Regulator addressed … down. Bailey was in the Bank';s engine room in … up to the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 and the crisis … credible. Bailey and the independent Bank never indulge in party politics. …
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Bank of England fearful if Reform's Nigel Farage ever becomes Prime Minister, says ALEX BRUMMER
27 Jul 2025 21:38 GMT
… (LDIs) but neither the Bank nor the Pensions Regulator addressed … down.
Bailey was in the Bank';s engine room in … up to the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 and the crisis … credible.
Bailey and the independent Bank never indulge in party politics. …
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I’m a mortgage broker – here’s why I wouldn’t advise borrowing 6 times your income
24 Jul 2025 19:00 GMT
… , before Covid-19, when mortgage rates were much lower. They … house; you’re facing bankruptcy. At traditional three to … Northern Rock was lending six times income combined with 125 per cent loan- … however, is that the banks holding these mortgages could face …
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Is Labour sowing the seeds for mortgage meltdown? Risky new rules that could give borrowers huge loans
15 Jul 2025 21:49 GMT
… worried?
A larger loan will increase monthly mortgage payments and this could … .
At the same time, banks such as Northern Rock had been ‘securitising’ these … than the equivalent mortgage.
Lender Skipton’s ‘track record’ mortgage allows renters with …
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Rachel Reeves vows to slash red tape 'choking innovation' - and is warned deregulation could lead to a replay of 2008 bank crisis
15 Jul 2025 22:54 GMT
… to make it easier for banks and building societies to … banking brought in after the great financial crisis that saw Northern Rock … to make it easier for banks and building societies to … All around the world the banks behaved irresponsibly, but regulation …