Which UK banks behaved best in the crisis?

ColdIron

Quaffa wrote: »

And Barclays are crooks over the LIBOR rate fixing affair.

Barclays were far from alone in this, they are just the first ones to come clean about it, you may want to strike HSBC and RBS from your list by this metric

ColdIron

danielson81 wrote: »

Metrobank?

I quite Metro Bank but they didn't get their license until March 2010 so wouldn't qualify under the terms set by the OP

System

I don't particularly care but I would still call it bailed out.

IIRC those governments got a preferential share setup etc from Barclays and would have taken over that basket case ABN AMRO if it wasn't for Fred the Shred.

grumbler wrote: »

Who cares? And I would call this 'raised money' from volunteer investors rather than 'were bailed out'.

innovate

As the saying goes: past performance is no guarantee to future performance.

"Behaviour" would be very far down my list of criteria when selecting an account. I am not selecting a bank, just an account. I would never entrust all my financial affairs to one single bank, anyway.

rb10

It looks as though the OP is really after a building society.

opinions4u

rb10 wrote: »

It looks as though the OP is really after a building society.

There's a fair few of those tarnished by The Credit Crunch and bad lending. Or bailing out the failures ...

CleanShirt

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rb10

opinions4u wrote: »

There's a fair few of those tarnished by The Credit Crunch and bad lending. Or bailing out the failures ...

The requirement was 'behaved best'.

I would class the building societies making poor lending decisions, or bailing out those that made poor lending decisions, as having better (well, less bad) behaviour than the banks fixing Libor and assisting money-launderers.

macman

Among the Building Societies, I would possibly suggest Nationwide, although both their CS and their online systems do leave much to be desired.

pinkdalek

Bank Of England seemed to do ok..........thankfully they haven't needed to be bailed out!

It depends on your perception of banks. If you are just referring to the high street branches, then as standalone businesses they all traditionally perform well, making profit each year. It was the investment banking that caused the problems.