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Britain's Northern Rock

How the subprime crisis in the U.S. torpedoed a British mortgage lender

BusinessWeek -- Global Outlook imageNorthern Rock bank was rock solid, a careful lender to home buyers. But an innovative financing strategy backfired -- and enmeshed it in the subprime crisis. The Bank of England was slow to act, too

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