Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009

Didn't someone say there is no sub-prime lending in the UK?

BBC: Problems mount at sub-prime firm

UK sub-prime lender Cattles says there has been a failure of internal accounting controls at the firm and it is suspending three senior managers. The firm currently has a market value of £15m, but borrowing of 2.4 billion.

Posted by peter_2008 @ 03:37 PM (776 views) Add Comment

5 Comments

1. growler said...

They will be out of business within days.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 04:07PM Report Comment
 

2. paul said...

"The company also said that its finance director, James Corr, could not fulfil his duties because of ill health."

That's the grown-up's equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 04:54PM Report Comment
 

3. little professor said...

Fraud Fraud Fraud....

"failure of internal accounting controls" = the balance sheet doesn't add up. Predictably noone discovered it until it was too late. They are a dead firm.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 05:33PM Report Comment
 

4. timmy t said...

This can't be right - I distinctly remember Gordon Brown stating that we don't have sub-prime in this country. BBC got it wrong again...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 05:57PM Report Comment
 

5. crunchy said...

4. timmy t said...This can't be right - I distinctly remember Gordon Brown stating that we don't have sub-prime in this country. BBC got it wrong again..

How to become a millionaire- bet the opposite way to Brown and shills opinions.

Thursday, March 5, 2009 10:15AM Report Comment
 

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