UK banks'  Â£3bn overdraft 'sting'
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UK banks charged their customers Â£3bn for unauthorised overdrafts during the past year, Which magazine says.
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Barclays Plc , Britain's  third-biggest bank, raised its 2007 write-down on the value of  risky assets to 1.6 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) but reported  profits broadly in line with analysts' expectations.
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Top UK banks are set to report combined profits of about Â£38bn for the past year despite worries about exposure to bad debts.
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.
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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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Fraud is costing the UK at least Â£20bn a year, or Â£330 for each person in the UK, a police study warns.
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Britain's building societies attracted a third month of record deposits in November, indicating savers continue to pull cash from ailing bank Northern Rock .
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The Bank of England acts to ease the credit crunch hitting financial markets, allowing banks to deposit more funds with it.
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Business & money: City gripped by speculation that a major high street bank has been forced to borrow Â£1.6bn from the Bank of England to see it through a cash-flow problem.
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Barclays Plc , Britain's third-biggest bank, raised its 2007 write-down on the value of risky assets to 1.6 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) but reported profits broadly in line with analysts' expectations.
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The Bank of England provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Northern Rock was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
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Britain's building societies attracted a  third month of record deposits in November, indicating savers  continue to pull cash from ailing bank Northern Rock .
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Business & money: Bank admits it was warned on more than one occasion amid fierce criticism from shareholders
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The Bank of England said that injecting cash into the financial system amounted to a bailout of investors who made bad decisions.
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The Bank of England is set to offer lenders an extra Â£10bn in funds to limit the impact of a credit crunch.
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Are bank overdraft charges designed to drive you into debt?
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Britain's fifth largest mortgage lender recieved emergency funding from the Bank of England in an attempt to head of a liquidity crisis.