If Credit Suisse can lend A&L £4bn, why was Rock left to starve?

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If Credit Suisse can lend A&L £4bn, why was Rock left to starve?

Credit Suisse has lent Alliance & Leicester £4bn in a secured warehouse line, silencing chatter about A&L having funding difficulties. If only a bank or banks had done the same for Northern Rock in the summer.

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