Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
Crud. I go away for the weekend and come back to my fears being made real. Looks like I'll be shopping around for an alternative this week then.
Funky to be honest you don't really have anything to worry about unless you have more than £85,000 deposited with them, as under new regulations the first £85,000 of savings for each customer is now protected by law.

Even then the CO OP parent group is just huge and is just very unlikely to let the bank fail, see below!!

So should those customers be anxious about Moody's downgrade?
Well there is no reason to believe that their savings are seriously at risk of incurring losses. As Co-op says today, it has plenty of cash or liquidity to hand - I understand it has a cash liquidity buffer of £3bn.

Also, the parent group is huge, with assets of £82bn and cash not far off £7bn. If the worse came to the worst, there is plenty of other stuff that could be sold, to provide additional capital to the bank.