Chancellor George Osborne receivex a rare dose of good news as the company which runs the so-called "bad bank" parts of Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock says it paid back £1 billion of taxpayers' money in the last six months... more
When the Government announced this year that it was looking to appoint advisers to help it decide what to do with Northern Rock, it was suggested here that the bulge-bracket investment banks should be excluded from the mandate... more
So George Osborne has fired the starting gun on the auction for Northern Rock - a one-time building society that became a bank, went into the FTSE 100, then went bust and had to be nationalised in February 2008... more
Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society, rules out bidding for the 600-plus branches Lloyds has put up for sale or the good bank part of Northern Rock... more
Yorkshire Building Society, the country's second largest, calls for Northern Rock to be remutualised throwing its hat in to the ring as a potential bidder for the bailed-out bank... more
Northern Rock, the nationalised bank which is being prepared for a return to private ownership, lost £232 million last year but is still paying £13.1 million in bonuses for hitting recovery targets... more
Northern Rock, the British bank nationalised during the credit crisis, is preparing to launch a series of mortgages that offer up to 90% of a property's value... more
Northern Rock may well be sold back to the private sector later this year, either by returning to the stock market or more likely by being sold to another banking organisation... more
Northern Rock reappoints Ron Sandler to its top job as chief executive Gary Hoffman moves on to take the same role at NBNK, the new bank set up by Lord Levene... more
A Northern Rock finance chief under investigation in a Financial Services Authority inquiry into mortgage figure manipulation leaves the nationalised bank... more
Former Northern Rock shareholders reacted with fury to news that they will get no compensation from the Government after it nationalised the bank two years ago... more
Northern Rock, the bank which triggered the financial crisis in Britain, could be sold before the general election in the biggest shake-up of the banking system for years... more
Government hopes of selling Northern Rock before the general election looked doomed amid signs potential bidders will wait until after polling day ... more
Raised eyebrows in the Treasury at the interview with Baroness Scotland, the attorney-general, in the Financial Times. She is keen to get across just how determined she is to crack down on financial crime ... ... more
When Northern Rock crashed, some commentators tried to say: "I told you so." They claimed they predicted the Newcastle-based bank would hit trouble and might ultimately fail... more
Government-owned lender Northern Rock - which was taken into public ownership in February 2008 - reports a half-year loss of £724.2 million just a day after HSBC and Barclays announce £3bn profits... more
Former shareholders in Northern Rock failed in their second legal attempt to force the Government to pay them hundreds of millions of pounds compensation after the bank was nationalised two years ago ... more
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