Thank goodness that could never happen here.
Ooops, my mistake
On 14 September 2007, the bank sought and received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, to replace funds it was unable to raise from the money market. This led to panic among individual depositors, who feared that their savings might not be available should Northern Rock go into receivership. The result was a
bank run – the UK's first in 150 years – where depositors lined up outside the bank to withdraw all of their savings as quickly as possible, particularly since everyone else was doing the same.
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On 22 February 2008, the bank was taken into state ownership as a result of two unsuccessful bids to take over the bank, neither being able to fully commit to repayment of taxpayers' money within three years.
....the loan which stood at £26.9 billion at the end of 2007....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock
...The
Treasury would inject £37 billion ($64 billion, €47 billion, equivalent to £617 per citizen of the UK) of new capital into Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc,
Lloyds TSB and
HBOS plc, to avert financial sector collapse....
....More than 100 senior bank executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland were paid more than £1 million in late 2010 and total bonus payouts reached nearly £1 billion – even though the bailed-out bank reported losses of £1.1 billion for 2010. Unions were baffled that any bankers were getting bonuses, considering the bank is owned by the taxpayer. The 2010 figure was an improvement on the loss of £3.6 billion in 2009 and the record-breaking £24bn loss in 2008. The bonuses for staff in 2010 topped £950 million.....
....In March 2009, RBS announced the closure of its
tax avoidance department, which had helped it avoid £500m of tax by channelling billions of pounds through
securitised assets in
tax havens such as the
Cayman Islands. The closure was partly due to a lack of funds to continue the measures, and partly due to the 84% taxpayer stake in the bank.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland_Group#2008.E2.80.932009_financial_crisis