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Top lenders: a league table
Position in March 2002	Position in March 2001	Lender*	Commitment (£m) at March 2002	Commitment (£m) at March 2001
1	1	Nationwide Building Society	3610	3363
2	-	Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking	3495	**
3	3	Royal Bank of Scotland Group	2970	2545
4	4	Abbey National	2969	2381
5	6	Bradford & Bingley	1515	1291
6	5	Barclays	1495	1349
7	7	Britannia Building Society	1121	1089
8	8	Dexia Public Finance Bank	906	865
9	9	BNP Paribas	514	566
10	13	Newcastle Building Society	343	173
11	11	Lloyds TSB	323	202
12	19	Prudential	229	107
13	16	Cheshire Building Society	156	122
14	12	Allied Irish Bank	154	193
15	14	Northern Rock	147	151
16	-	European Investment Bank	142	-
17	15	Yorkshire Bank	131	130
Total			20,220	17,802
* Table includes only lenders that had committed more than £100m each at March 2002; other lenders were also active
** Halifax and Bank of Scotland merged in 2001

Capital markets – the lead banks
Bank*	Proceeds of capital market issues (£m)
	as of March 2002	as of March 2001
RBC Capital Markets	1527	1261
HSBC	758	758
Royal Bank of Scotland Group	594	518
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein	424	424
BNP Paribas	197	197
Morgan Stanley	160	127
Barclays Capital	118	118
Other	132	132
Total	3910	3535