Lloyds TSB

...banking system significantly. The news is a major blow for Gordon Brown, coming only weeks after he was forced to break up RBS and Lloyds to conform with a European Commission ruling. Pascal Lamy, director general of the WTO,...

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...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...

In this article: Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of England, HBOS, Alistair Darling, Northern Rock, Mervyn King, and Gordon Brown

...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, HBOS, UK, Scotland, Scottish Widows, John Swinney, Alistair Darling, and Gordon Brown

...crisis. Ever since Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown stepped in last year to prop up Lloyds, Halifax Bank of Scotland and RBS, European regulators have been carefully studying the impact of the Government's actions on competition. Ministers...

In this article: Gordon Brown, RBS, Lloyds, Alistair Darling, Direct Line, and HBOS

...the banking system. It will also embarrass Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who orchestrated the contentious merger between Lloyds and stricken Halifax Bank of Scotland at the height of the financial panic last Autumn. Brown tore up the...

In this article: Lloyds, Gordon Brown, Brussels, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Intelligent Finance, and HBOS

...the Monopolies Commission. It's the EU Competition Commission which makes the decision so your inference that Lloyds cosied up to Brown to do a back hander and hold off the MMC can't stand up on that basis. Of course there was opposition...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Royal Bank of Scotland, Unite, HSBC, Tax, Michael Geoghegan, and Capitalism

...and casino-style investment operations. Mr Posen's words will further embarrass Gordon Brown, who acted as midwife to the controversial merger between Lloyds and Halifax Bank of Scotland last year. Yesterday competition between lenders was...

In this article: Barclays, Mervyn King, Standard Life, Bank of England, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Gordon Brown

...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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...Blank and Gordon Brown. Two separate action groups of private shareholders are planning legal action against Lloyds, which has been known as Lloyds Banking Group since the takeover deal was completed in January. Yesterday they spoke of...

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