14 September 2007 Northern Rock seeks a loan from the Bank of England
17 February 2008 Northern Rock nationalised
14 March 2008 Bear Sterns bought by JP Morgan
7 September 2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailed out by US government
15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy
17 September 2008 HBoS rescued by Lloyds TSB
7-8 October 2008 Iceland’s three biggest commercial banks collapse
13 October 2008 UK government bails out RBS, Lloyds TSB and HBoS
27 June 2012 Barclays fined £59.5m for fixing Libor
29 June 2012 FCA orders RBS, Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays to compensate customers for failures in the sale of interest rate hedging products
11 December 2012 HSBC agrees to pay $1.9bn to US regulators over money-laundering failures
