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...The by-election, triggered by the death of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd, has afforded Galloway his fourth stint in parliament and a platform to undermine Labour....
...Even before Ali’s comments were made public, Galloway, who has caused previous upsets running against Labour in Bradford West and the London seat of Bethnal Green and Bow, was already hoping to tap into...
...The by-election campaign blew up into controversy within days of the vote being declared following the death of sitting MP Tony Lloyd....
...The UK’s biggest lenders — Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds — would still need to comply with ringfencing rules because of the size of their investment banking arms....
...Curated by Lloyd Bradley, author of the books Bass Culture and Sounds Like London, the season explores, among other things, potent US-Jamaican musical exchanges....
...Holes in the data Rodney Joffe made a fortune providing tech services to US federal agencies....
...But for many of those British lenders that crumbled in 2007/8 (also including HBOS, Bradford & Bingley, Alliance & Leicester) that mismatch had been taken to extremes....
...Lloyds is targeting a 20 per cent reduction by the end of 2023....
...Peter Keenan, Toreson Lloyd, Rodney Bain What do you sell, and who do you sell it to? APEXX offers payments processing solutions to enterprise businesses with complex payments requirements....
...To Abbey National it added two more former building societies in 2008 — Alliance & Leicester and the remains of Bradford & Bingley....
...The NCA said it believed an individual linked to an address in Bradford, Yorkshire, searched as part of its investigation, launched the attacks against the banks in November 2017....
...The bank is caught between smaller challengers who dismiss it as an old-fashioned incumbent and the “Big Four” — Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC and RBS — that still dwarf it in scale....
...The fine follows an investigation into the preparation and audit of a Lloyd's of London insurance syndicate....
...In 2017 it disposed of the last of its holdings in Lloyds Banking Group at a slight nominal profit. UKAR and Pimco declined to comment....
...The current owners — LDC, the private equity business of Lloyds Banking Group — bought NEC from Birmingham city council for £307m in 2015....
...In 1952, the reception given to Rodney Ackland’s play The Pink Room, about a Soho nightclub as the second world war ended, was so hostile that it effectively stopped his successful writing career dead....
...A consortium of banks made up of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander UK has committed to buying investment grade bonds from the securitisation....
...I contrast the story in this week's column with the durability of Goldman Sachs, whose chief executive Lloyd Blankfein announced his departure last week....
...rescue of Bradford & Bingley....
...First, he cited the bank data migrations he led “successfully”: Alliance & Leicester to Santander, Bradford & Bingley to Santander, HBOS to Lloyds TSB, and TSB out of Lloyds....
...He worked on the winding up of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, as well as the taxpayer-backed bailouts of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group....
...Letter in response to this article: Treasury has sacrificed a virtually risk-free yield / From Lloyd Zokay...
...Blackstone, the US private equity firm, and Prudential, the FTSE 100 insurance group, recently won a battle to acquire a £12bn portfolio of former Bradford & Bingley loans....
...This week the government revealed it was no longer the largest shareholder in Lloyds Banking Group after it reduced its stake in the lender below 6 per cent, falling behind BlackRock, the US asset manager...
...The role brought the opportunity to work closely with government, at the head of one of the only lenders able to buy stricken rivals Alliance & Leicester and part of Bradford & Bingley in 2008....
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