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hive
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In London, Mervyn King's hard-hitting speech to business leaders in Edinburgh cast a shadow over the banking sector after the Bank of England Governor called for banks' retail functions to be hived off from their more speculative ventures.
Around three-quarters of the impairment charge related to assets which will be hived off into a taxpayer-backed insurance scheme, taking the public stake to more than 60%.
The paper added that Northern Rock's most toxic or high-risk loans would be hived off into a so-called "bad bank" that the government would keep.
 
 
 
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