Reference:British banks are still in bad books

By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London

May 25--Anyone who thought the banking crisis was abating will have been abruptly disillusioned by a string of revelations this week. Credit ratings agency Moody's yesterday indicated it may downgrade 14 UK lenders, including state-controlled Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander's UK operations, the Bank of Ireland and the Nationwide building society.

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