British bank Northern Rock faces key shareholder vote
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Northern Rock, the British bank nearly sank by the global credit crunch, faced a shareholder vote Tuesday over plans to limit management's ability to sell the group without consulting investors.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Group, private equity firm Olivant and an in-house team are all expected to lodge rescue bids for stricken mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Monday.
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The British government was to introduce emergency legislation Monday to temporarily nationalize Northern Rock PLC amid strident criticism of the move from opposition lawmakers and shareholders in the stricken mortgage lender.
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U.S. financial services firm GMAC is  preparing to spearhead a bid for British mortgage lender  Northern Rock , according to Britain's Sunday Times  newspaper.
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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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Northern Rock's  180,000 investors next week face a choice between keeping a say in the future of the troubled British bank or hampering the chance of a rescue at a critical time.
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The bill to nationalise Northern Rock is to be debated in the Commons, with the Tories set to vote against it.
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Troubled bank Northern Rock will be taken into public ownership, the BBC's business editor reports.
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The British government's pledge to guarantee all deposits held by Northern Rock in an effort to shore up confidence in the country's fifth-biggest mortgage lender will be put to the test on Tuesday when branches reopen.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a political and public backlash on Monday after his decision to take ailing bank Northern Rock Plc  into public ownership, the first UK nationalization since the 1970s.
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Business & money: Government to get tough with bidders for Northern Rock during crisis meetings
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Northern Rock will hold an emergency meeting for shareholders on its sale process on 15 January.
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The board of embattled Northern Rock PLC faced shareholders Tuesday amid growing speculation that Britain's biggest casualty of the global credit crisis will be nationalized.
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The future of ailing British bank Northern Rock -- including possible nationalisation -- is to be decided in the next six weeks, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said in an interview on Saturday.
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The Bank of England may provide liquidity to Northern Rock, the biggest British casualty so far of a credit squeeze.
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Embattled British bank Northern Rock  is preparing for a sell-off that could see its 100 billion pound ($200.6 billion) mortgage portfolio divided between the country's other major banks, the Sunday Telegraph said.
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The British government faced questions Monday over its economic competence after nationalising Northern Rock, the beleaguered mortgage lender that fell victim to the global credit crunch six months ago.