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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
It was hardly the greatest of days for shareholder democracy yesterday. As chairman Rod Kent spoke proudly of the 937,000 individuals who could boast a slice of the troubled Bradford & Bingley, only 56 had braved the rain to nod through a £400m rights issue designed to secure the bank's very future.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
At an EGM that saw just over 100 people dotted around a hall that can hold 12,000, chief executive Rod Kent admitted that a lot of work needed to be done to get the 157-year-old institution back into calm financial waters. By Martin Wainwright
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Pressure mounts on Bradford & Bingley chairman Rod Kent as regulator warms to consolidation of beleaguered lenders
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Rod Kent is proving more Clark Kent than Superman when it comes to protecting the interests of his shareholders at Bradford & Bingley (B&B). Having stumbled and tripped over the simple job of granting due diligence to Clive Cowdery's Resolution vehicle, the B&B chairman is now faced with shareholders accounting for 40pc of his company's institutional holdings supporting Cowdery's efforts to examine...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Poor old Rod Kent. He could scarcely have imagined the mess he was walking into when he left Close Brothers to become chairman of Bradford & Bingley. Nobody would say he's handled it brilliantly, but, given the hand he was dealt, could anyone have done better?
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Leading shareholders in Bradford & Bingley (B&B) are considering calling on Rod Kent, the chairman, and other senior executives to resign in the wake of the embattled mortgage lender's botched £400 million rights issue plan and a shock profits warning.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Most Sunday mornings, Rod Kent, chairman of Bradford & Bingley, can be found selling his home-made yoghurt at the farmers' market in Winchester, near his home. Kent, tall and debonair, looks every inch the gentleman farmer too. But this Sunday he won't be at his stall; he'll be trying to catch up on the sleep he has lost after what he describes as "10 days of hell".
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This is Money Blog (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Bradford & Bingley chairman Rod Kent says: "We have got to up the management game here." While Kent's candour is to be admired — it is all too rare in banking — it does beg the question: who was the...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Rod Kent, the Bradford & Bingley chairman now with executive responsibilities, was locked in meetings at the bank's London offices in Lambs Conduit Street sorting out the turmoil at the UK's biggest buy-to-let lender
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
A weary Rod Kent, chairman of Bradford & Bingley, conceded that there had been "management failure" at the buy-to-let mortgage lender as he sought yesterday to outline a future for the business.
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
The new boss of Bradford & Bingley has told Sky News he believes the UK is "at the beginnings of a recession".
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Bradford & Bingley are bankrupt. They are insolvent. They have issued fraudulent financial information. The CEO has jumped ship. This parrot is no more. This parrot is dead, deceased. All this is obvious as events have unfolded over the last 36 hours. Chairman Rod Kent, who steered them onto the rocks, takes over the tiller. On the threat of pulling out of underwriting the Rights Issue as the
