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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The Bank of England has stepped in to provide emergency financial support to Britain&#39;s fifth-largest mortgage lender Northern Rock, the latest institution to fall victim to market turmoil, officials confirmed Friday.
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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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Britain set a two-week deadline for a private-sector rescue of Northern Rock  on Monday as it confirmed plans to convert its billions of pounds of loans to the stricken bank into bonds in a bid to smooth a deal.
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Britain decided to nationalize Northern Rock  on Sunday, abandoning a five-month attempt to snare a private sector buyer for the ailing bank and piling more pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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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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Business & money: Government tells two groups bidding for Northern Rock to improve their offers or see bank nationalised
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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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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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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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Goldman Sachs is close to completing a 15 billion pound ($29.5 billion) financing package to be used by suitors for UK lender Northern Rock , the Sunday Times reported, adding details may be unveiled this week.
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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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British finance minister Alistair Darling announced on Sunday the temporary nationalisation of troubled bank Northern Rock, which was hit by the global credit crunch in August.
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Government financing triggers move but Treasury says Northern Rock has not been nationalised
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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.
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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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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.