AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Byline: Joe McGrath
Building societies like to promote their mutual status as a benefit, but many have been forced into mergers in recent months. Joe McGrath asks how strong they really are and considers where the next casualty may come from.
Two years ago, while the international banking community witnessed a complete shutdown in the mortgage backed securities market, a number of mutual organisations thought they had spotted an opportunity.
The freeze in global liquidity meant that some of the biggest UK non-mutual lenders were going to have to withdraw from their respective markets, leaving huge swathes of customers without financing options ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Secret societies?