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Northern Rock 31/01/2012

18:46 : Banker banned from City for obtaining £1.4m dishonestly to cover debts - Ravi Sinha, who was paid a £886,000 salary at JC Flowers, is fined £2.9m by the FSA over fictitious invoicesA former high-flying City banker who once fronted a bid for Northern Rock has been banned from working in the Square Mile ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 20/01/2012

14:15 : How banks get away with inventing profits | Gordon Kerr - Abetted by a sloppy bailout structure, bankers now produce financial statements that would make Bernie Madoff blushBoth sides of the political divide are in agreement that bailing out the UK's failed banks in 2008 (and Northern Rock ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 09/01/2012

09:52 : Virgin's Richard Branson visits rebranded Northern Rock branch - Northumberland Street branch in Newcastle is the first of the 75 Northern Rock outlets to be rebranded as Virgin MoneySir Richard Branson will visit the first newly branded Virgin Money bank on Monday after the ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 08/01/2012

01:29 : Hardly Virgin territory: Branson enters banking's already crowded market - Virgin Money's relaunch of Northern Rock has got off to a good start - even sponsored team Newcastle beat Manchester United – but can it last?Sir Richard Branson is never known for a missing a publicity stunt ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 06/01/2012

10:06 : Virgin Money introduces charge for current accounts - Virgin Money, the new owner of Northern Rock, is to begin charging all new customers for current accounts, even if the account remains in credit. Virgin Money’s chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia “Most people know there is no such ...

Northern Rock 05/01/2012

20:57 : Credit crunch fears at highest level since Northern Rock collapse - Britain's banks are more worried now about a credit crunch than at any time since the first one brought down Northern Rock in late 2007, a survey by the Bank of England has found.
Source : telegraph-co-uk

Northern Rock 04/01/2012

19:15 : Virgin steps into N.Rock boots to sponsor Newcastle - LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Virgin Money said it had struck a two-year deal to sponsor English Premier League soccer team Newcastle United, just days after buying the banking business of current sponsor Northern Rock.
Source : reuters-com

Northern Rock 01/01/2012

21:22 : Virgin Money confident of watchdog approval over Northern Rock - Virgin Money chief, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, said the company 'holds no fear' over scrutiny by the National Audit OfficeVirgin Money is confident that its £747m takeover of Northern Rock will be deemed good value for taxpayers despite concerns ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
12:03 : UK sells Northern Rock to Virgin despite protest - LONDON (Reuters) - Virgin Money completed its acquisition of bailed out British lender Northern Rock on Sunday, despite calls for the sale to be delayed while the national auditor investigates whether the deal is good value for money.
Source : reuters-com

Northern Rock 18/12/2011

10:51 : UK audit body to probe sale of Northern Rock bank - LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Britain's National Audit Office (NAO) is to probe the sale of nationalised bank Northern Rock to Virgin Money, the opposition Labour Party said, after the terms of the deal meant the taxpayer would effectively ...
Source : reuters-com

Northern Rock 06/12/2011

14:07 : Britain's UKAR bank to close site, 700 jobs at risk - LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - UK Asset Resolution, the body set up by the government to manage the toxic assets resulting from the collapse of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, will close down a north-east ...
Source : reuters-com

Northern Rock 04/12/2011

08:58 : JC Flowers targets mortgage books of UK banks with £1.5bn 'war chest' - JC Flowers, the American private equity firm, has set aside a £1.5bn "war chest" to buy mortgage books from British banks after failing to purchase Northern Rock.
Source : telegraph-co-uk

Northern Rock 03/12/2011

23:32 : JC Flowers targets mortgage books of UK banks with£1.5bn 'war chest' - JC Flowers, the American private equity firm, has set aside a £1.5bn "war chest" to buy mortgage books from British banks after failing to purchase Northern Rock.
Source : telegraph-co-uk

Northern Rock 02/12/2011

15:21 : Northern Rock sale generates bumper executive bonus - It looks as if long-term incentive plan will pay out early thanks to sale of the nationalised bank to Virgin MoneySenior executives of Northern Rock could be in line for bumper payouts of following the sale of the nationalised lender ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 01/12/2011

22:11 : Branson wants to offer small loans to British poor - NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Richard Branson wants to use his recent purchase of British bank Northern Rock to offer small loans to the poor and urged Wall Street bankers to use their bonuses to help repair the ...
Source : reuters-com
20:58 : Credit crunch pinpointed to 9 August 2007 – the day the world changed - The beginnings of the global debt crisis were first signalled by former Northern Rock chief executive Adam ApplegarthThe former boss of Northern Rock, Adam Applegarth, pinpointed the start of the first Credit ...
Source : guardian-co-uk

Northern Rock 20/11/2011

22:50 : George Osborne reveals Northern Rock sale forced on him by secret Labour ... - George Osborne has defended the timing of the Government's sale of Northern Rock, claiming his hand was forced by a secret agreement Labour made with Brussels when the lender was nationalised in 2008.
Source : telegraph-co-uk
21:22 : George Osborne defends sale of Northern Rock - George Osborne says Northern Rock sale forced by EU deadline agreed by former Labour chancellor, Alistair DarlingGeorge Osborne has rejected criticism of his sale of Northern Rock, claiming he was tied to a deadline ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
00:22 : Margareta Pagano: As Branson rocks the high street – bankers beware! - When I caught up with Sir Richard Branson on Thursday – the day Virgin Money scooped up Northern Rock – he had just stepped off a plane on the East Coast, having flown from Los Angeles where he had been partying ...

Northern Rock 19/11/2011

23:59 : Victor in battle for Northern Rock faces an uphill struggle to increase ... - Fifty-year-old Gadhia - backed by Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and American billionaire Wilbur Ross - has set out to shake up the British banking market and challenge the big five UK banks.
23:59 : LISA BUCKINGHAM: Richard Branson has pizzazz to be a banking hit - Sir Richard Branson frequently punches above his weight so it is conceivable that Virgin's ownership of Northern Rock will stir up a bit of competition in the banking sector.
23:03 : Virgin Money sees no loss to taxpayer from N Rock deal - The Government will not make a loss on Northern Rock, despite the gap between Virgin Money's £747m takeover and the £1.4bn the taxpayer has invested in the bank, Virgin Money chief Jayne-Anne Gadhia has insisted.
Source : telegraph-co-uk
06:07 : Saturday Papers: Northern Rock cash used to fund deal - A third of the £747 million cash price that Virgin Money is paying to buy Northern Rock will be funded from the state-owned bank’s current capital base, Financial Times has discovered.
Source : citywire-co-uk

Northern Rock 18/11/2011

23:23 : Northern Rock's demise is a fitting symbol for the north-east - Once a sign of a wealth unfamiliar in the region, Northern Rock's demise is now a symbol of its collapse. Andrew Hankinson has got the T-shirtAs I write this, I'm wearing a T-shirt with "Rock steady" written on it. My mum gave it to me in September 2007 ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
22:16 : Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way' - Virgin entrepreneur and new owner of Northern Rock says he wants businesses to transform themselves along ethical linesCapitalism has "lost its way" and financial profit should no longer be the main driving force behind big business, ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
22:16 : Letters: At a loss over Northern Rock sale - • This week we hear that chancellor Osborne has agreed to sell to his Tory friend Northern Rock at a £400m discount to what was invested in 2008 (Taxpayers to lose out by at least £400m as Virgin buys bank, 18 November). Wow! What ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
15:31 : Northern Rock sale won’t affect compensation - Savers with money in both Northern Rock and Virgin Money will not be disadvantaged by Virgin’s takeover of the Newcastle-based bank if either of the banks collapses. Both Virgin Money and Northern Rock will keep ...
11:56 : Governments have their good and bad days – just like us | Michael White - Mistakes don't make ministers bad people, or incompetent, but it is better that we try to learn from themGovernments, like the rest of us, have good days and bad days. On balance, yesterday was a bad day as Treasury ministers sanctioned the hasty sell-off ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
01:34 : Sale of Northern Rock leaves the public dangling on the hook | Analysis - Critics will say there is probably no better example of the privatisation of profits and socialisation of losses than thisRon Sandler, the executive chairman of Northern Rock, said on Thursday: "The return of Northern ...
00:31 : City tells Virgin to expect tough fight from big banks - Virgin Money faces an uphill struggle to make a meaningful impact on British banking, despite buying Northern Rock for a knockdown £747m and earmarking a possible flotation for as soon as 2014, City analysts warned yesterday.
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