Flowers/Northern Rock Show me the money

Chris Flowers needs friends with deep pockets if he is to snap up Northern Rock. More precisely, the private equity financier probably has to raise £15bn-£20bn. Flowers needs the funds primarily to make sure Northern Rock can repay the wholesale money which it borrowed to finance its growth splurge over the next year. Persuading a group of banks to put up that amount of cash for the stricken UK mortgage bank may sound a tall order - especially given that no bank seems particularly keen to buy N...