UK

Northern Rock was nationalized by the UK government in February 2008 after the first bank run in Bri...

Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, collapsed in February 1995 after trader Nick Leeso...

Lehman Brothers International Europe, the European arm of Lehman Brothers, entered administration on...

Connaught Income Fund Series 1 collapsed in 2012, losing 118 million of investor money. The fund was...

London and County Securities Bank collapsed in December 1973 during the UK secondary banking crisis....

WorldSpreads, a spread betting company, collapsed in March 2012. The company had 29.7 million in cli...

Carillion plc entered liquidation on January 15, 2018. Carillion was the second largest construction...

Thomas Cook, the oldest travel brand in the world, collapsed on September 23, 2019. Founded in 1841,...

Monarch Airlines collapsed on October 2, 2017. Monarch was the fifth largest airline in the UK with ...

British Home Stores, founded in 1928, collapsed in April 2016. Billionaire Sir Philip Green had sold...

Comet, the second largest electronics retailer in the UK, collapsed in November 2012. OpCapita, a pr...

NMC Health collapsed in April 2020 after short seller Muddy Waters Capital questioned its financials...

Royal Bank of Scotland was effectively nationalized in October 2008. The UK government took an 84 pe...

HBOS, formed from the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, was rescued through acquisition by Llo...

Flybe, the largest regional airline in Europe, collapsed on March 5, 2020. The airline operated 38 p...

Cazoo, the UK online used car retailer, collapsed in 2023 after burning through 2 billion. Founder A...

Arrival, the UK electric van startup, collapsed in 2024. The company had been valued at 13 billion v...