Campaigns to retain Edinburgh-based HBOS as an independent company continued until its takeover by Lloyds TSB was completed in January.
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Regulators ‘knew about HBOS’
Financial regulators sought a buyer for Halifax Bank of Scotland as early as summer 2008 and considered full nationalisation, a government report will reveal today.
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