Sep 21, 2011
Mirror: China backs Branson's bid for Northern Rock
RICHARD Branson’s bid to buy ailing Northern Rock moved a step closer with China now poised to back the move read more »
Sep 16, 2011
Failure to remutualise does not prevent risk of future collapse
Co-operative Party Policy Officer Pete Jefferys writes on LeftFootForward that the only way to safeguard against future collapse is to remutualise the Rock. read more »
Feb 08, 2011
Bernard Ginns: Customers would benefit from running their own bank
Published on Tue Feb 08 10:10:00 GMT 2011 WHILE the brightest and best minds in politics and finance are applying themselves to the difficult question of reforming a financial system dominated by banks that are too big to fail, who is tackling the problem of banks that are too big to succeed? read more »
Feb 03, 2011
Chuka Umunna MP: Remutualise Northern Rock
Comment is Free, The Guardian Thursday 3 February 2011 11.00 GMT Returning Northern Rock to its roots would inject a valuable dose of participatory democracy into the financial industry read more »
Feb 01, 2011
Re-mutualising Northern Rock “would be a good move”
Claire French, February 1st 2011 at 5:03 pm Leaders of the two biggest mutuals today told the Commons Treasury select committee that the re-mutualisation of Northern Rock could be a “good move”. read more »
Feb 01, 2011
Yorkshire Building Society in bid for Northern Rock
by William Green, The Journal Feb 1 2011 ONE of the country's leading building societies could try to take over Northern Rock if ministers opt to remutualise the bank. read more »
Jan 28, 2011
Hopes rise for Northern Rock future
by William Green, The Journal Jan 28 2011 IT is a "realistic possibility" that Northern Rock could become a building society again, the agency deciding the bank's future confirmed yesterday. read more »
Jan 28, 2011
Northern Rock should be a mutual, say MPs
By Harry Wilson 6:15AM GMT 28 Jan 2011 A cross-party group of senior MPs has called on the Government to remutualise Northern Rock instead of selling the nationalised lender to another bank. read more »
Sep 17, 2010
More building societies, fewer banks says Oxford report
Britain should have more building societies and fewer banks if it wants to avoid future financial crises, according to a report from Oxford University. read more »
Aug 05, 2010
Jim Pickard: The case against turning Northern Rock into a mutual
Jim Pickard sets out arguments against re-mutualisation, with counter-arguments by Michael Stephenson read more »