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pcernie
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busine ... 5667?f=rss

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Emergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS peaked at £61.6 billion at the height of the financial crisis, the Bank of England has revealed.


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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King revealed that the banks had to put up more than £100 billion in collateral in return for the loans.


Bloody hell...

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and not all of the remaining debt has been revealed by the banks, as of yet …

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Both banks had paid back the cash by January, it said.


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The money was repaid in full by January this year, he added.


Quality reporting from Sky. I can just see over one billion fifties in circulation. :roll:

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