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		<title><![CDATA[Rock troubleshooter lands board job at UBS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business News In Brief    BANKING Ann Godbehere, above, the troubleshooter who was brought in as finance director of Northern Rock after the mortgage lender was nationalised, has been appointed to the board of the Swiss bank UBS as it battles to stave off the effects of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Footsie failures]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share prices have collapsed during the credit crunch, but the UK's benchmark indices understate the true havoc that's been wreaked upon the value of our largest companies. Nikhil Kumar reports    The FTSE 100 Index continues to slide, as the UK stock market closes in on its Iraq...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bad debts rise threefold at Northern Rock]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTHERN ROCKs bad debts jumped almost threefold last year as the slowing economy took its toll on the nationalised banks controversial Together loans.   The bank said yesterday that loan-loss impairments jumped to 894m for 2008 from 240m a year earlier. Residential arrears of more than three months increased...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Darling should have known about Goodwin&#39;s pension]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20090227/ai_n31401947]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[POLITICIANS RIVAL bankers for ineptitude. In the matter of Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland who has walked away from the largest corporate loss in British history with a pension for life of 650,000-a-year at the age of 50, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ninety per cent mortgages courtesy of the taxpayer]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outlook    So lets see if Ive got this right. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, wants to abolish 100 per cent mortgages, but hes also proposing to give Northern Rock, which is publicly owned, the wherewithall to re-enter the mortgage market and start lending at up to 90...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brown launches another bank rescue plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northern Rock to boost mortgage lending by Pounds 14bn amid dismay in Whitehall    A fresh rescue package for the beleaguered bank system will be launched today with the promise of a 14bn boost to mortgage lending by state-controlled Northern Rock.   It will be followed by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rock investors to fight on after losing case]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTHERN ROCK shareholders pledged to appeal yesterday after losing their High Court bid to win a more generous compensation settlement following the bank's nationalisation last year.   Investors in Rock had hoped that a judicial review of the way in which the Government handled the lender's nationalisation would pave...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HBOS losses are in danger of swamping Lloyds]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outlook    Eric Daniels and his chairman at Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Victor Blank, must be ruing the day they agreed to acquire the troubled Halifax Bank of Scotland. Not that they would admit to it. Absolutely not. No, HBOS will eventually turn out to be a fantastic...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit crisis diary]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still living in a different world at Lloyds   Eric Daniels, the Lloyds chief executive, could not have been more reassuring at Tuesday's Commons' Treasury Select Committee hearing. Asked whether he'd discovered any nasties in the HBOS accounts since taking the bank over, Daniels, right, told MPs there was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New hope for home loans as Rock revives]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The images of Northern Rock customers queuing round the block in September 2007, desperate to extract their money from the beleaguered bank, will stay with us for some time. The then fifth- largest mortgage lender in the country was saved from collapse by billions of pounds of emergency government funding...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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