Northern Wreck - A Monument To The Failure of The FSA

Northern Rock (the 100% state owned bank) announced a 24% increase in half year losses to £724M today.

Seemingly the number of bad loans tripled in six months. Maybe enticing people into borrowing 125% of a property's value wasn't such a good idea?

It reported that 3.92% of its mortgages are in arrears. The national average of mortgages in arrears is 2.39%.

Quite where the FSA was, and what it was doing, whilst the then board of Northern Rock were destroying value is anyone's guess.

Northern Rock remains a monument to the failure of the FSA and the tripartite regulatory system created by Brown.

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