By Brian Swint
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said two British banks got within hours of a liquidity shortfall on Oct. 6, 2008, and the day after as the U.K. financial system came to the brink of collapse.
“Two of our major banks which had had difficulty in obtaining funding could raise money only for one week then only for one day, and then on that Monday and Tuesday it was not possible even for those two banks really to be confident they could get to the end of the day,” the BBC cited King as saying in an interview to be broadcast later today.
King was referring to Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and HBOS Plc, the BBC said. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government pledged to invest about 50 billion ($82 billion) pounds in the banking system on Oct. 8, 2008, to save it from meltdown in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy declared that September.
“It was, it is, probably the worst situation, as I say, we faced in peacetime,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said, according to a press release from the BBC. . .
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