The British plan, known as the Asset Protection Scheme, is the latest in a string of similar insurance schemes that governments have put in place to limit banks' future losses on bad assets and kick-start new lending.
In recent months UBS, the Swiss lender, Citigroup and Bank of America in the United States and ING, the Dutch lender, have all taken advantage of government-backed insurance policies.
Though all the schemes have significant differences, they are all designed to allow governments to support their banks without formally taking them into state ownership.
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