Northern Rock

Low-risk bonds come to the rescue for fed-up savers

Interest rates have already fallen to their lowest level in half a century and Bank of England governor Mervyn King has made it clear that he is prepared to cut further as recession bites. That may be good news for (some)...

Hiraizumi: More than meets the eye

Hiraizumi, which literally translates as “Peace Spring”, doesn’t seem at first glance to have much to offer but there is more to this Japanese town than meets the eye. Having come into power in a time of violence, Kiyohira...

A1GP plans stall yet again

THE A1 Grand Prix - the open-wheel event touted as the saviour following the demise of the Gold Coast Indy - has suffered its first puncture, and engine failure could be next. Reports from London suggest the owners of A1GP have...

State-sponsored gloom

It's the task of target companies in an agreed bid to weight shareholders' "choice" in favour of their recommendation. But if Lord Stevenson had marched down Edinburgh's Princes Street wearing an End of the World is Nigh...

Card issuers defy Brown's restraint plea

Gordon Brown has demanded that credit and store cards slash interest rates, calling this week for a "new responsible approach" to lending. He wants to "bring the credit-card industry in to talk" while his officials dubbed its...

Bankers face brunt in a week of job culls

Nick Goodway, Evening Standard Two giant banks - Citigroup and Royal Bank of Scotland - are poised to axe 13,000 jobs as the credit crisis deepens. The Wall Street and Canary Wharf-based bank has lost more than $20bn in the...

Hedge fund RAB Capital thrown into turmoil by £2billion loss

A hedge fund that bet against the collapse of Northern Rock was thrown into fresh turmoil after losing £2billion in the financial crisis. In a bleak trading update, RAB Capital revealed that the money it invests for clients has...

Government to keep an arm’s length from banks

THE Government will manage the taxpayer’s multi-billion-pound stakes in some of the UK’s biggest banks on an “arm’s length” basis rather than through direct boardroom control, it was revealed yesterday.

Hedge firm RAB reduces funds by a third

RAB, the second-biggest investor in Northern Rock before the bank was nationalised, has taken radical action to try to survive the financial meltdown by slashing the number of funds it runs and locking investors into others.As...

HBOS chief 'using scare tactics to push takeover deal'

Published Date: 15 November 2008 THE chairman of HBOS has sent a circular to shareholders claiming that if the proposed takeover bid by Lloyds TSB is rejected, then the troubled bank might have to be nationalised. Lord...