Northern Rock gets bank bail out
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The Bank of England agrees to give emergency financial support to mortgage lenders Northern Rock.
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Panicky customers of Northern Rock have withdrawn Â£2 billion ($4 billion), since the bank acknowledged Friday that it could no longer raise money because of the credit squeeze.
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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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The British government tried to stem the tide of cash pouring out of Northern Rock  on Monday, promising depositors they wouldn't lose a penny as the bank's share price plunged further and thousands queued to withdraw their savings.
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Britain's finance minister Alistair Darling has asked Goldman Sachs to put together a financing package in a last-ditch bid to rescue the ailing bank Northern Rock.
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Stricken bank Northern Rock said Friday it had sold part of its mortgage book to US investment bank JP Morgan for 2.25 billion pounds (4.39 billion euros, 2.97 billion dollars) in cash.
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The Bank of England has agreed to provide emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock after it fell victim to the liquidity squeeze in the banking sector, media reports said on Thursday.
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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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Embattled British bank Northern Rock  is preparing for a sell-off that could see its 100 billion pound ($200 billion) mortgage portfolio divided between the country's other major banks, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said.
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Mortgage lender Northern Rock calls on Bank of England to provide emergency funding.
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Britain set a two-week deadline for a private-sector rescue of Northern Rock that would allow the stricken bank's 25 billion pound emergency funding to be converted to government-guaranteed bonds to help smooth a deal.
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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 a credit squeeze.
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Emergency legislation is to be introduced to temporarily nationalise the stricken Northern Rock bank.
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The British government is to support a plan to turn the Bank of England's loans to troubled bank Northern Rock into bonds for sale, the BBC reported Saturday.
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Hundreds of panicky depositors converged on branches of embattled bank Northern Rock to grab their savings, as shares in the lender plunged by nearly a third for the second straight trading day on Monday.
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The board of Northern Rock  is considering mounting a rescue plan to save the ailing British bank from nationalisation or takeover, the Sunday Times reported.
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Northern Rock sells Â£2.2bn of its mortgage assets to US bank JPMorgan, saying it will repay the Bank of England.