Boring Mortgage Finance but interesting news.

[Uncle Spielberg]

Incidentally ... is this decision by the Bank of China to play around in the UK mortgage market anything to do with the fact that the Royal Bank of Scotland is its second largest shareholder?

Is this simply a way for the largely publicly owned and heavily regulated RBS to get involved in lending activities that are less regulated by the UK Treasury?

You old cynic Ed but a decent theory none the less.