Once upon a time Bradford & Bingley was a rather boring building society, which used two men in bowler hats to signify their sensible and trustworthy approach.

曾几何时，Bradford &Bingley 是一个相当没意思的抵押贷款提供商。 它们用两个带着圆顶帽子的男人来标志该公司提供明智和值得信赖的贷款方式。

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Only Royal Bank of Scotland and Bradford & Bingley trade anywhere close to that level;American banks are priced at 15-30% of deposits.

目前，只有RBS和BB的股价接近这个水平，而美国各大银行的股价还保持在存款额的15-30%。 （这句是转折，不是并列递进，所以用“更是达到..”

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The Northern Rock brand was lucky to survive (banks which failed later, such as Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, were absorbed by rivals).

北岩品牌很幸运存活下来（其他倒闭的银行，如Alliance&Leicester和Bradford&Bingley被对手兼并）。

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Alvin is the presenter of BBC's Your Money Your Life which won the Broadcast Programme of the Year in the Bradford and Bingley Personal Finance Media Awards in 1999.

BBC: Your money or your life

Of the biggest lenders, Bradford and Bingley (up 0.87%), Alliance and Leicester (up 1.37%), HBOS (up 1.95%), and Lloyds TSB (up 0.23%) ended higher, while Barclays fell 0.23% and Royal Bank of Scotland declined 2.4%.

BBC: Cautious welcome for bank plans

As was Bradford and Bingley.

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