Darling attacks slack lending culture
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Chancellor criticises Britain's banks for recklessly lending money to consumers.
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New reforms aim to avert another Rock-style crisis as consumers and firms face worsening of credit supply
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Chancellor Alistair Darling says policy makers must act quickly to tackle "enormous" problems in world financial markets.
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Top bankers warn that many lenders are letting their standards slip and making imprudent loans.
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A downward spiral of falling house prices and reduced lending threatens the economy, an economist warns.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling says the UK's system of banking regulation needs to be changed after the run on the Northern Rock.
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A House committee chairman said that he would seek legislation to curb lending abuses if the central bank did not act quickly to do so.
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Family finances are being hit as bills and taxes rise faster than incomes, a centre-right think tank warns.
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Banks are being accused of pressuring customers into taking out costly loans to try to clear their debts.
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Business & money: Credit crunch and housing woes blamed for gloom as businesses begin lobbying for interest rate cut
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Despite a bad quarter, the bank is shrewdly planning for the future.
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Mortgage lender calls on Bank of England to provide emergency funding, in new sign that the credit crunch is squeezing UK banking.
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Britain's finance minister Alistair Darling hit out at "fat cat" bonuses in an interview published Saturday, questioning whether such big pay outs are justified at a time of economic uncertainty.
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Darling to tough out opposition from shareholders, unions, banks and EU
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New Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling rejected the concept of economic nationalism as &quot;nonsense&quot; in an interview published Wednesday.
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The prime minister is accused of "dithering" and failing to deal quickly enough with the Northern Rock crisis.
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MARK Latham attacked yesterday&#39;s Coalition policy launch as a &quot;willy-nilly&quot; spending spree aimed at buying votes, which would drive up interest rates.