Forced buyer

5 Aug 2008 By Jeffrey Goldfarb

They started out on the hook for £27bn of loans to rescue the mortgage lender. Now the government wants to swap £3bn of debt for Rock equity. The bank is late to the balance sheet restoration party. Luckily its shareholders are a rather captive and passive bunch.

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