Northern Rock

[mockney piers]

LOL, no Keef, not even once. You are an eternal darkness god!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

really Keef?

I'm not quite sure if you have gone up or down in my book.... I think up, but that is dedication to the cause young man!

[downsouth]

What is Eternal Darkness - I'm begining to feel like a luddite.

[Keef]

The best game released on the Gamecube!

Sean, it had to be done, there were 3 different Gods to fight, and you got a great ending after the third... Okay, I'm sad :-S

[SeanMacGabhann]

Not at all Keef - I've done the same on a couple of others...

[macroban]

Will anyone be closing their Bradford & Bingley account tomorrow morning?

[Guest]

Why? I saw they've issued a profit warning and the CEO has resigned, but didn't sound quite on the Northern Rock scale. Is there more to it than that?

[????]

Er... B&B are not in remotely the same shite that NR were - they don't have the same business model

[macroban]

Alliance & Leicester next?

[david_carnell]

Well their shares are down nearly 10% this morning and have halved over three months. So, not good then. But to go belly-up?

Bradford and Bingley look equally worrying. Down 25% this morning and worth less than a quarter what they were 3 months ago.

[Keef]

Oh dear, joint accound with A&L... Good thing we have no money to save! :-S

[Guest]

Put everything in N Rock - still giving 100% guarantees on savings accounts.

[indiepanda]

Well, if your bank or building society goes belly up now, and was regulated by the Financial Services Authority (which they would generally be in this country, but worth checking), provided you have less than ?35k in a deposit account, you will get all your money back via the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

If you are lucky to have more savings than that, it might not hurt to split them between different banks so that all accounts have less than the maximum in.

More info at : http://www.fscs.org.uk/consumer/ - including how to tell whether your bank is regulated by the FSA / covered by the FSCS.

[Guest]

N Rock (probabably the taxpayer really) guarantees 100% of balances up to ?2 million.