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RBS and Lloyds £30 Billion Handout and Bonus Caps
A touch over 12 months on from their original bail-out, RBS (LON:RBS) and Lloyds (LON:LLOY) said today that they will not pay cash bonuses to any staff earning over £39,000.
RBS and Lloyds Banking Group: Alistair Darling’s reform
Chancellor Alistair Darling will bow to pressure from Brussels and agree to break up banks that are supported by the taxpayer. The future of high street banking will change for ever.
Alistair Darling: We may just print more money
The Chancellor, Alistair Darling today confessed today in an interview with the Financial that the UK recession is much deeper than they had expected.
Darling, repeated himself several times describing the outlook as “difficult”, he also added that he may have to tear up his previous forecast on the economy. He also talked of how difficult
Alistair Darling ponders on how to get the bank's lending
The UK Government has said they are contemplating further plans to encourage UK banks to increase lending to businesses and households.
Alistair Darling, Chancellor said that injecting more taxpayers money into banks was not the “first port of call”. The Chancellor also added that they will be holding
Alistair Darling tells Sky News he is sure to keep his job
After Alistair Darling was quoted in a newspaper on Saturday saying that the economic times faced by Britain and the world “are arguably the worst they’ve been in 60 years” he is said now to have
Alistair Darling states that the suspension of Stamp Duty is purely speculation
Are they or aren’t they? it’s what is on all potential homebuyers minds, but the Treasury has ended speculation as to if the proposal has actually been put forward from the government in
Stamp duty could be temporary scraped to improve housing market
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program stated that he will be increasing measures to combat the
U.K. mortgage-financing to be reviewed
In London this week the U.K said a review of Britain’s mortgage-financing market, although it’s believed that the government won’t respond to industry demands immediately in the call to improve the current market conditions.
Due to the downturn in the housing market, the U.K. Chancellor of