Northern Rock

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  Billionaire Ross Looks at Spanish Banks

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 23, 2012

  Billionaire Wilbur Ross is considering adding assets from troubled large Spanish banks to his firm’s other bank holdings, and has said that he is in talks “every week” with bank representatives.

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  EC President Unveils Banking Union Plan

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 12, 2012

  The plan laid out by President Jose Manuel Barroso would not only allow the ECB to supervise all eurozone banks, but would also give it jurisdiction over a broader, and at first voluntary, EU banking base.

• RBS Talks Sale With Abu Dhabi Royals

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 27, 2012

  The Abu Dhabi ruling family is in talks to purchase a stake in the government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland, according to sources close to both sides of the potential deal.

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  Who Will Regulate the Regulators?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  January 31, 2012

  Why did U.S. regulators fail to react to the alarming increases in leverage at financial institutions, or the shift of trillions of dollars of assets from banks’ balance sheets that were packaged into complex securities? Three former regulators propose a solution to what ails our regulatory system.

• Northern Wreck

  By Staff Writer  |  September 25, 2007

  The ongoing fallout from the subprime mortgage calamity in the United States may strike the United Kingdom quite hard, some observers believe. The Bank of England's recent surprise agreement to provide emergency bailout funding for troubled U.K. mortgage lender Northern Rock may only be a harbinger of things to come.