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In the period September 2007 to December 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, the UK government intervened financially to support the UK banking sector, and four UK banks in particular. At its peak, the cash cost of these interventions was £137 billion, paid to the banks in the form of loans and new capital.
A second bank rescue package totalling at least £50 billion was announced by the British government on 12 January 2009, as a response to the then-ongoing Financial crisis of 2007–2008. The package was designed to increase the amount of money that banks could lend to businesses and private individuals.
The Bank of England acts as the UK's central bank, influencing interest rates paid by private banks, to achieve targets in inflation, growth and employment. The Bank of England was originally established as a corporation with private shareholders under the Bank of England Act 1694, [1] to raise money for war with Louis XIV, King of France.
Fitch Rating said the UK's five biggest banks would likely set aside billions of pound more to cover losses as the year progresses. Fitch: COVID-19 pandemic could cost UK banks £25bn Skip to main ...
The purpose of calculating economic profits (and thus, opportunity costs) is to aid in better business decision-making through the inclusion of opportunity costs. In this way, a business can evaluate whether its decision and the allocation of its resources is cost-effective or not and whether resources should be reallocated.
In October 2008, the Labour Government of the UK introduced a bank rescue package as a response to the 2007–2008 financial crisis.The Northern Rock bank had already been nationalised following its collapse in 2007, the government subsequently part-nationalised Bradford & Bingley, Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Over the past 40 years (to 2014) the banking system in the UK experienced a 'dramatic shift' with total assets increasing from 100% of GDP to 450%, and it is 'plausible that the UK banking system will continue to grow rapidly', owing to its probable 'comparative advantage' in international banking services, with the pre-eminence of London as a ...