It seems only a few weeks ago there was a major month long banking
computer systems failure at the RBS banking group in the UK.
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240160860/RBS-computer-problem-costs-125m
Today there is news of another failure ;
Headline - "Lloyds TSB and Halifax customers unable to access cash"
From
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/05/lloyds-halifax-customers-unable-withdraw-money-systems-error
Coincidentally, yesterday the BBC correpsondent Robert Peston wrote ;
From
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-19842201
...£143bn of high quality mortgages on the books of Lloyds - and it
calculates that Lloyds holds just £314m of capital against..
... Lloyds seems to have lent 455 times the value of the capital...
...o put this in another way, just 0.2% of these mortgages would have
to go bad for this capital to be wiped out...
... Basel ll.... to the biggest banks to use their own internal risk
models to determine the riskiness of categories of loans...
We seem have gone on from self certified loan applicants to self
certified lenders.
Carl Goldsworthy
Never keep up with the Joneses, drag them down to your level.