Customers primarily choose Northern Rock for low cost residential mortgages. The company is one of UK’s top 5 mortgage providers distributing through their branches and an extensive network of intermediaries. Once a Northern Rock customer, the individual has a choice of other inexpensive loan and savings products.
The handling of the liquidity crisis at Northern Rock by the UK authorities has become a major embarrassment for the government and Gordon Brown in particular. The new Prime Minister has always stressed his achievements as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the period 1997 to 2007, while he was waiting...
According to news reports, the Treasury has told the consortium led by Richard Branson’s Virgin group that they are favourites to take over Northern Rock.
There have been many calls for Northern Rock to offer some kind of rescue package to borrowers who took out the company’s Together loan, a 100% plus mortgage. John McFall, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee is the latest in a long line of supporters for the rescue plan.
The UK government's mishandling of the liquidity problem at Northern Rock exacerbated matters. The episode demonstrates the failure of the tripartite regime and bodes ill for the future of the bank under nationalisation.





