Friday, Aug 14, 2009

Industry insider says these are 'Extraordinary' provisions.

Times Online: B&B suffers £160m loss as mortgage fraud rises

Bradford & Bingley has had to raise its provision for fraud and professional negligence to £271 million.
Bradford & Bingley, the nationalised mortgage lender, has laid bare the dire state of its loan book and said that a rising wave of fraud dragged it to a £160 million loss for the first half of the year.

Posted by hotfoot @ 07:40 PM (336 views) Add Comment

2 Comments

1. paul said...

Are self cert mortgages classed as fraud yet?

Friday, August 14, 2009 10:04PM Report Comment
 

2. Smiling said...

nah Paul, not yet. If you want to know the latest, I'll let you in on a secret, they are all paying libor+2%, which is 2.77%, to save you looking it up.

Friday, August 14, 2009 11:54PM Report Comment
 

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