Virgin Money has pledged to maintain its operational headquarters in Newcastle, where Northern Rock is based.
Last week, the EU approved the plans for Northern Rock to be split in two.
However, this figure had dropped significantly since the Northern Rock crisis and subsequent advertising campaigns.
The sale of Northern Rock plc is expected to be completed on 1 January 2012.
Northern Rock said that its profits for 2007 would be hit, but that it remained solvent.
He told Mr Leslie no suitable final bids had been made for Northern Rock by mutuals.
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He also demanded to know why ministers did "not try harder" to re-mutualise Northern Rock.
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Northern Rock was something which plainly was not anticipated any more than the HMRC debacle.
Northern Rock's strategy was at all time transparent to the market and to the regulator.
That was the case with Northern Rock, a British bank that grew explosively before failing in 2007.
Sir John came under pressure from some City bankers and opposition politicians during the Northern Rock fiasco.
The government stepped in to announce a 100% government guarantee for all savers' money in the Northern Rock.
Northern Rock will raise the cost of its entire range of residential fixed and tracker rate deals tonight.
To add to this in the UK. Northern Rock, the entire problem was reliance upon wholesale market funding.
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The rescue of Northern Rock and the subsequent banking crisis brought the safety of savings into sharp focus.
It is possible to argue that taxpayers have got a reasonable deal on the sale of Northern Rock.
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He declined to say what position the Northern Rock might have been in had it not approached the authorities.
The government said it had no plans to sell Northern Rock (Asset Management).
Labour had, at last, to admit things looked gloomy and that Northern Rock's nationalisation would not be a one-off.
Northern Rock is to be sold rather than remutualised or floated on the stock market, the Chancellor has confirmed.
Northern Rock was forced to seek an emergency loan from the Bank of England on 13 September last year.
Fueled by the media, throngs of anxious customers formed lines outside Northern Rock branches hoping to redeem their accounts.
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They are from the NatWest, the Nationwide, Santander, the Halifax and Northern Rock.
The collapse of Northern Rock and other small lenders has allowed the surviving mortgage-lenders to push up their margins.
The most notorious were those offered by the now nationalised Northern Rock bank.
Northern Rock's customers rushed to withdraw their savings after the Bank of England offered the mortgage lender emergency funding.
The reason the capital has been eroded is that Northern Rock is lossmaking.
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But remember the state still owns tens of billion of pounds of old Northern Rock mortgages, the so-called bad bank.
"After what's happened with Northern Rock, consumer confidence is at an all-time low, " said Martin Lewis, from consumer website Moneysavingexpert.com.
Most of the bailed-out firms, including HBOS, Lloyds (which then bought HBOS) and Northern Rock, did not own investment banks.
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