Britons withdraw billions in bank run
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Shares in one of Britain's largest lenders tumbled another 30 percent Monday as customers, driven by fears of insolvency, made run on the bank and withdrew billions.
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A substantial amount of money is stolen from a Northern Bank branch in the centre of Belfast.
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Chancellor steps in to halt run on accounts after crisis-hit mortgage lender's shares dive.
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Credit markets took another hit as the Bank of England bailed out Britain's biggest casualty so far in the global credit crunch while policymakers differed over the best way to restore liquidity to money markets.
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A gang has escaped with up to Â£30million after clearing the vaults of a Belfast bank. It&#39;s believed to be the second biggest robbery ever in the UK, and the fourth biggest in the world.
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The Bank of England is ordering a freeze on any assets belonging to a terrorist group that claimed responsibility for kidnapping and beheading two Americans and a Briton in Iraq, Treasury chief Gordon Brown said Thursday.
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Business & money: Biggest share falls since height of credit crunch after US bank's $18bn write-off and Rock uncertainty grows
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By James Daley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. Three former NatWest bankers who are fighting extradition to the US over their alleged involvement in a Â£4m fraud linked to the collapse of Enron
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Northern Rock faced another day of customers withdrawing their savings and share price drops on Monday after an emergency bail-out from the Bank of England last week.
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On Thursday 13th September, after the market had closed, the Bank of England announced to have provided emergency cash to Northern Rock, the fifth largest mortgage lender in the country. The Bank of England played down the intervention, saying that it is not a "bail-out" but rather a loan meant to ease the bank's difficulties in financing its short-term operations in the face of the recent market turmoil. The bank's assets are reportedly solid and there is no risk for shareholders.  In spite of this reassurance, the stock price of this former market darling tumbled 30% on Friday. People were seen queing outside branches while the website went down as the bank clients rushed to withdraw their money using the online banking facility.  It's the first time in my life I've seen that Great Depression staple, the bank run.
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The European Central Bank and Bank of England flooded money markets with funds on Tuesday.
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The Bank of England (BoE) froze interest rates at 4.75 percent for the fifth successive month following recent signs that the British economy is losing momentum.
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An estimated 30 million pounds has been stolen from a bank in Northern Ireland, a source has said. If confirmed, the raid would be one of the biggest ever bank robberies in Britain.
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Fears grew on Saturday that panic among savers at British bank Northern Rock  will see a run of withdrawals after reports that 1 billion pounds had already been taken out.
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The UK government on Friday directed financial institutions to freeze the funds of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA) with immediate effect.
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[World News]: London, Dec 22 : Kidnappers stole up to 30 million pounds in Britain&#39;s biggest ever bank robbery in Belfast, it was announced Tuesday.
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The Bank of England on Friday provided emergency financial support to the first major British bank to be severely hit by the credit crunch sparked by the US home loan crisis.