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Santander in mortgage push with overdraft fillip

19.11.09
Spanish banking giant Santander today launched an aggressive strategy to grow its share of the UK mortgage market by offering home borrowers a current account with no overdraft fees ... more

Bank to launch 'fee-free' account

19.11.09
Spanish banking giant Santander is set to launch an assault on the current account market with the introduction of a fee-free account available to mortgage customers... more

Darling may delay his tough laws on banks

07.07.09
Hopes are growing in the City that tomorrow’s White Paper on financial regulation will back away from creating onerous legislation for banks until after the General Election, which is expected next year ... more

Three big banking names to be wiped off the high street

27.05.09
Three of Britain’s best known banking names — Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester — are to be scrapped... more

Savers’ guarantee may rise to £500,000

31.03.09
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Nationwide in warning over compensation pot

20.03.09
Building society Nationwide has warned its contribution to a compensation pot for savers in failed banks could hit £250 million... more

Skipton profit dragged down by £141.5m

25.02.09
Banking: Two of Britain's biggest building societies have reported sharp falls in their profits as their bad debts soared and they picked up their part of the tab for the failure of Bradford & Bingley... more

Idea that's not so awful now

18.11.08
A couple of weeks ago two senior figures in the private-equity industry - two of the most red-blooded capitalists I know - asked what I thought of a state-owned bank. ... more

Piece by piece is best for now

02.10.08
One of the more bizarre suggestions I have heard this week was that we are not in a systemic crisis. It used to be only at weekends that banks collapsed, were nationalised or forced into mergers but now it is almost a daily occurrence... more

It’s a bit late for broker to stop coverage of B&B

30.09.08
Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands... more

A Falklands factor for Brown?

30.09.08
The Tories have been careful so far in Birmingham to maintain strict control over delegates in the conference hall - which is easy - and in the bars and fringe meetings running late into the night, which can be a much harder proposition... more

Sterling gets a pounding from dollar

29.09.08
The pound crashed more against the dollar than at any time since 1993 today as investors ditched sterling... more

Everyone is guilty: end the conspiracy of greed

29.09.08
Two banks nationalised, one bust, others taken over, ­thousands of jobs likely to be lost, the FTSE 100 through the floor, the effects likely to spill over into the rest of the economy — and still I'm not sure if we really get it... more

Osborne and the Tory challenge

29.09.08
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Banks on rescue standby as B&B takes new tumble

23.09.08
Banking: The chances that Bradford & Bingley will be the next bank to seek a rescue seemed to grow after the shares took yet another hit, falling to an all-time low... more

Three more strugglers take 90% booby prizes

15.08.08
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Investors smiling on hopes of £12bn deals bonanza

14.07.08
Shareholders were licking their lips over a raft of possible takeover action as actual and rumoured deals totalling almost £12 billion hit dealers' screens... more

High Street banks face huge losses as they bail out Bradford & Bingley

09.07.08
Britain's biggest High Street banks and pension funds are set to lose tens of millions of pounds from bailing out the stricken buy-to-let mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley... more

Heavyweight in A&L chair

09.07.08
Mortgage lender attempts to distance itself from the woes of other former building societies... more

Lifeline for banks is hopelessly tangled up

07.07.08
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Moody's downgrades B&B ratings

04.07.08
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the long-term bank deposit rating and the senior debt rating of Bradford & Bingley plc (Bradford & Bingley) to Baa1 from A3... more

A principle we must save at B&B

24.06.08
While most attention in the City is focused on HBOS and whether its £4 billion rights issue will be left with the underwriters, it is in fact the much smaller Bradford & Bingley issue that should be the main centre of concern... more

Always a sinking feeling over societies that floated

03.06.08
Simon English says we should cherish the Nationwide, hate all banks, and beware the nappy/beer formula... more

Economy worries hit the pound again

03.06.08
The pound has fallen against the dollar again amid rising concern about the state of the UK economy.... more

Major banks in new crisis

02.06.08
Britain's banks faced another black Monday as a £4 billion shares sell-off was prompted by a major lender warning of plunging profits... more

Hard to see why B&B's fund chase is so costly

15.05.08
Anthony Hilton wonders why the fees are so high when it comes to modern day rights issues... more

Sorry Rod, you steered B&B into this disaster

15.05.08
Rod Kent, chairman of Bradford & Bingley, has blighted his distinguished career... more

B&B, Johnston chase £512m to fend off effects of crunch

14.05.08
Two of Britain's largest companies launched emergency rights issues to bolster their balance sheets as the economic slowdown and continuing credit crunch forced them to seek extra cash... more

Banks take a battering on B&B cash-call fears

14.04.08
More than £2.5 billion was slashed from the value of Britain's High Street banks today... more

B&B rides out cash-call fears

14.04.08
Bradford & Bingley rode out an early slide in its share price after it was forced to deny planning an emergency rights issue... more

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