Now the Credit Crisis Spreads to Britannia

Summary


Savers and borrowers with Britannia Building Society could see the value of their annual member reward - the mutual's equivalent of a dividend - fall next year as a result of the credit crisis surrounding the mortgage industry.

Britannia, the second biggest mutual lender after Nationwide, is especially vulnerable to the credit crunch because its subsidiary, Platform, depends on capital markets for much of the money it lends.

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Now the Credit Crisis Spreads to Britannia

Platform is as big a business as the society's Britannia-branded operation and in recent years has generated far more profit, much of which gets...

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