EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26: (FILE PHOTO) HBOS signs outside the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, where shareholders will gather to discuss plans for a 4 billion GBP cash injection on June 26, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lloyds Banking Group announced on February 27, 2009 that it has failed to land debt deal amid �10.8bn HBOS losses. Getty Images logo Getty Images 9 months ago

EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26: (FILE PHOTO) HBOS signs outside the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, where shareholders will gather to discuss plans for a 4 billion GBP cash injection on June 26, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lloyds Banking Group announced on February 27, 2009 that it has failed to land debt deal amid �10.8bn HBOS losses.

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  1. The Bank of England is seen in central London, Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. Britain's treasury minister on Wednesday defended the secrecy surrounding the Bank of England's decision to loan 61.6 billion british pounds ($101.8 billion US) to save two banks from collapse last year. The central bank revealed this week it had loaned the Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and HBOS PLC more than it had initially disclosed. The secret loans to prop up the banks came in October and November 2008, when the financial system froze in panic in the wake of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
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