UK Asset Resolution (UKAR) is a British financial services holding company with headquarters in the

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village of

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(near

Bradford & Bingley Bradford & Bingley plc was a British bank with headquarters in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley. The bank was formed in December 2000 by demutualisation of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society following a vote of the building society's mem ...

's former headquarters in

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). It was established in October 2010 as a

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to hold the two run-off elements,

(including the Mortgage Express brand) and

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(previously known as Northern Rock Asset Management), of the two nationalised banks in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. UKAR manages an asset book in run-off, with the combined entity having a total mortgage book of £4.7bn (as at 31 March 2020), down by £94.7bn since its establishment in 2010.https://www.ukar.co.uk/~/media/Files/U/Ukar-V3/documents/ukar-factsheet-2020.pdf

History

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On 22 June 2012

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, owners of the Northern Rock bank, acquired the remainder of the NRAM Gosforth site, and the following month UKAR sold £465 million of mortgages from the NRAM portfolio to Virgin. UKAR left their

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(

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) offices in 2013, and moved those remaining staff to Doxford and Bingley. In 2011 UKAR repaid £2.15 billion to taxpayers and in 2012 paid a further £4 billion. In August 2013, the bank said it has now returned £6.6 billion to the government. It owed £48.7 billion when it was created in October 2010. In 2014 £2.7 billion of the mortgage book was agreed to be sold to Commercial First, a consortium led by JP Morgan. In 2015 UKFI announced that it would seek expressions of interest for the divestment of mortgage servicing capabilities of the NRAM business as well as the Granite securitisation vehicle. UKFI appointed

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as advisers for the divestments. On 13 November 2015, UKAR confirmed the sale of NRAM's Granite mortgage portfolio to

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for £13 billion. On 31 March 2017 it was announced by

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that the sale of buy-to-let mortgages from the Bradford & Bingley loan book to

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and funds managed by

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had been agreed for £11.8 billion. On February 26, 2021, UKAR announced the sale of its final assets from Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock at a price of £5 billion to a consortium of

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and

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. This transaction consisted of two steps: UKAR sold the remaining loan portfolio to Citibank and Davidson acquired the government’s equity in Bradford & Bingley and NRAM. This concluded the government’s ownership of both institutions. UKAR will have no staff going forward but remains a government-owned entity, with

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handling any activities that arise.

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