B&B humiliated as suitor TPG jilts it before sale
Bradford & Bingley lurched into a new crisis last night (Thursday) as people close to Texas Pacific Group said it was pulling out of its planned £179m investment in the UK bank, on the grounds that Moody’s was about to downgrade it from A3 to Baa1.
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