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Top rates to entice savers can be warning sign

By Brooke Masters and Sharlene Goff

Published: December 5 2008 23:46 | Last updated: December 5 2008 23:46

When London Scottish Bank collapsed into administration on Monday, most attention focused on the bank’s struggling subprime lending business – but it also marked the end of yet another institution that had become known for knock-out savings rates.

The failure came only weeks after the demise of two divisions of failed Icelandic bank Landsbanki – Icesave and Heritable Bank – which had attracted hundreds of thousands of savers earlier this year with league-leading rates.

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