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Yes, I've seen that. I would be cautious holding that stock AS, once customers leave a bank, they do not return, such is Brit mentality, there are plenty of others to stick cash into. I am just very concerned that it might start small and effect other banks.
BOE made it clear that they will not "save" a bank that failed to show caution when giving out credit, I think they referred to it as binge credit attitude. But things might change, it's so hard to see where this might lead to, I know one thing buy lo & sell hi has been driving the world since the stone ages and things are priced hi now ImO, they have to go down to entice interest, maybe this is THE call for stock and housing markets to start a bearish phase.
In the UK it takes 12 moths now to clear bankruptcy and according to Citizens bureau reports there are untold amounts of people considering and already declaring bankruptcy. One worker from the CB has told me that there are teenagers coming in with £10-15k debts that they can't clear, when I was a teenager it was near impossible to get credit that easy, and it wasn't THAT long ago. Things have gotten out of hand.