Friday, February 26, 2010
This sucker’s going down
Lloyds in £42bn bill from toxic HBOS
The combined £42bn of charges dwarfs the £8bn purchase price for HBOS, damaging Lloyds’ long-held reputation for prudence following one of the most toxic bank takeovers in history. Tim Tookey, Lloyds’ finance director, played down market concerns over the bank’s reÂfinancing needs when £157bn of government and central bank funding falls due over the next two years.
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taffee says:
and not one prosecution for fraud…..certain people were clearly lending to their mates
David47 says:
The Chief Executive of Lloyds who bought all this and inflicted so much financial pain on his shareholders is still in a job! Our so-called elite think they can do what they like…