Britain gets report on options for Northern Rock
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Britain has received a report from U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs on options for the troubled Northern Rock bank and is talking to potential buyers about them, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
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Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland  is considering a major acquisition in the United States early next year, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper on Wednesday, but the bank dismissed the report.
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Bonds worth Â£24bn and guaranteed by the government to rescue Northern Rock will have maturities of between two and three years, according to information sent to potential bidders for the stricken lender
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Billionaire Richard Branson, banker Luqman Arnold and an in-house management team are set to pitch formal offers for Britain's Northern Rock Plc  on Monday, the government's deadline for bids.
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The British government deepened its involvement in Northern Rock on Tuesday, offering to guarantee more of the stricken mortgage bank's liabilities as it battles to find a private-sector buyer.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is to make a statement to parliament Monday regarding the future of troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock.
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Royal Bank of Scotland , Barclays   and Citigroup  have offered to securitise half of  the Bank of England's emergency loan to Northern Rock ,  The Sunday Telegraph reported, without citing sources.
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LONDON/NEWCASTLE  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his handling of the nationalization of Northern Rock on Monday, but will now have to grapple with the fallout of possible job cuts and shrinking the bank.
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A deadline on private bids for Northern Rock, the British bank almost ruined by the squeeze on global credit, was to expire on Monday amid speculation that three proposals will be made to the board.
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Northern Rock's debt will appear on government accounts, the Office for National Statistics decides.
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Britain said on Sunday it will  nationalize ailing mortgage lender Northern Rock  for a  temporary period as it was not in the taxpayer's best interests  to sell it to the private sector now.
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The British government said on Tuesday  it was extending guarantee arrangements for Northern Rock   to cover some unsubordinated wholesale obligations of  the stricken bank, whether existing now or in the future.
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The British government said on Tuesday it was extending guarantee arrangements for Northern Rock  to cover some unsubordinated wholesale obligations of the stricken bank, whether existing now or in the future.
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The rescue of British bank Northern Rock  could get bogged down in a legal battle as shareholders criticized the government's handling of the five-month crisis just as a decision nears.
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Government financing triggers move but Treasury says Northern Rock has not been nationalised
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The Bank of England has offered an emergency loan to Northern Rock after the mortgage lender became the biggest British casualty so far of the credit squeeze sparked by the crisis in U.S. subprime mortgage markets.
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Concerns about a slump in UK house prices may damage chances of selling Northern Rock, a report says.