That said, there is one wannabe bidder for Verde with advanced status: Co-operative Banking Group, owner of the Co-operative Bank, Smile and Britannia.
But NBNK, as the new kid on the block, does not have advanced status and might not get it for years: it would have standard status.
But banking sources tell me it is highly improbable that - in these risk-averse times - the FSA will give a guarantee that NBNK would receive advanced status on any set timetable.
Now it is of course possible that NBNK will be able to provide some kind of comfort to Lloyds' directors that it is likely to receive advanced status relatively quickly - and in those circumstances it would repay the surplus capital back to Lloyds.
The reason is that as a new kid on the block, NBNK would be given what's known as "standard status" by the Financial Services Authority, whereas the Co-operative - with its longer history and considerable size in financial services - already has so-called "advanced status".
While the business schools at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and Duke offer full alumni status to advanced management program participants, schools such as Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School grant only partial alumni status.
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Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.
There were no new reports of planned coal-fired generators, and just one of 14 in the pipeline advanced from pre-construction to under-construction status, the agency found in its 2011 annual survey.
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And rather than making it harder to garner support for a Pluto mission, as some researchers fear, the questioning of Pluto's status seems, if anything, to have advanced their cause.
Her advanced state of mousiness is unmistakable, as is her domestic life and social status.
Ford has announced plans to locate its advanced car-styling centre in Britain to take advantage of London's status as a leading centre of design.
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