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Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised - "the Treasury will almost instantaneously sell to a bank or a number of banks".

According to the BBC, this means that every building society floated on the stock market in the past two decades will have collapsed or been sold to a conventional bank. Something about that fact seems a little bit depressing.



Date: 2008-09-28 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pope-ant.livejournal.com
AFAIK, The 2 small building societies merged with (were taken over by) the Nationwide - which is still mutual (a building society not a bank).

Date: 2008-09-29 08:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mimmimmim.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was confused by that. I thought they were a bank now.

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