by Calculated Risk on 12/13/2007 11:33:00 AM

From Financial News: HBOS pain takes UK bank writedowns to £2bn in a week (hat tip Barley)

HBOS has become the fourth UK lender in a week to announce a multi-million pound writedown on the back of the turmoil in global credit markets, taking the total written off by UK banks in the last seven days to almost £2bn (€4bn).

The bank this morning said it wrote down £520m on its investments, three days after Lloyds TSB revealed a £200m hit on its own portfolio and a week after Royal Bank of Scotland reduced the value of its assets by £950m as a result of its exposure to US sub-prime.

Northern Rock continued to add to the woes of the UK banking sector, saying this morning it had written down its collateralised debt obligation portfolio by £281m.

And the beat goes on ...