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...to examine the fairness of charges. He said government-supported banks - Northern Rock, HBOS and RBS - had recently been asked to review their overdraft charges so that they were fairer to customers. Sarah McCarthy Fry, Exchequer...

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...end. It must be devastating for staff morale. "We knew that Scottish jobs would go when Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown changed competition laws to force through Lloyds' takeover of HBOS. "But now, almost 12 months on, it's time for...

In this article: Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrat, John Swinney, Alistair Darling, and Scotland

...Minister Gordon Brown Mr Darling is now facing pressure to explain why Lloyds TSB shareholders were not told of the four-month loan - the first instalment of which was paid two months before Lloyds took over HBOS. In unrequested evidence...

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...less than 20 miles from Dunfermline HQ in Edinburgh. "It is a supreme irony that whilst Gordon Brown has taken action to stop RBS, HBOS and the other nationalised banks from taking this kind of heavy-handed action, he has done nothing to...

In this article: KPMG, Dunfermline, Gordon Brown, Beneficiary, Office of Fair Trading, Revenue, Dunfermline Building Society, and Scotland

...a massive fall in the value of the shares I held in Lloyds. It was the same Gordon Brown who had railroaded the rather weak chairman of Lloyds to take over an ailing HBOS. He did this by offering Lloyds a short cut past competition...

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...to the country by pushing through the merger. He said: "It is now plain to see that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling sold the country a con with his cut and shut merger of HBOS and Lloyds. Their recent comments on jobs show the emptiness...

In this article: Lloyds, UK, Scotland, Scottish Widows, John Swinney, Alistair Darling, and Gordon Brown

...Northern Rock won't create a new competitor. What's more, the banking sector is still, in some ways, less competitive than before Brown blessed Lloyds' disastrous acquisition of HBOS. That deal didn't just contaminate Lloyds with...

In this article: Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Gordon Brown, Northern Rock, UK, Acquirer, Small business, Cheltenham & Gloucester, and Bradford & Bingley

There were denials that the firm was in crisis, which is always a terrible sign. In September 2008, the Big Four bank Lloyds bought HBOS after its boss, Victor Blank - this is the part you couldn't make up - bumped into Gordon Brown at...

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...at all. The resignation of Sir James Crosbya one of the prime ministers key advisors - followed revelations that when he was chief executive of bank HBOS he sacked a whistleblower who warned that banks were heading for disaster. Sir James...

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