25 FEBRUARY 1989, page 23

Betting At Natwest

YOU would have thought, said the general manager of the National Westminster Bank, that when we announce a profit of more than £1,400 million and break every record, people......

In Niceface We Trust

BORROWERS fall back on their third and last line of defence, which is trust. They have borrowed (they say) from national institutions, famous names, with their reputations on......

City And Suburban

If mortgages didn't exist, nobody would be allowed to invent them CHRISTOPHER FILDES Y ou signed what? An agreement to borrow money for 20 years? How much money? Dear me, that......

Stop Press

WHEN Robert Maxwell is looking for his next takeover — something to keep him going until teatime — I propose the Oxford University Press. This aged institution is evidently......