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Following a decision by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to initiate the special resolution regime (SRR), and a subsequent application to court by the Bank of England, Southsea Mortgage and Investment Company Limited (Southsea) has been placed into the Bank Insolvency Procedure and BDO LLP (BDO) has been appointed bank liquidator.
Published on
16 June 2011
As of today, Southsea has therefore ceased trading.
The failure of Southsea, a small bank with just over 250 depositors, follows a deterioration in its financial position as a result of management decisions and the firm’s specific business model. At failure, the firm had retail deposits of £7.4 million.