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Royal Bank of Scotland 19/12/2011

21:29 : RBS nears $2.2 billion property loan disposal: source - (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and private equity giant Blackstone Group LP are set to finalise a deal in which the bank will relinquish control of 1.4 billion pounds of distressed property ...
Source : reuters-com
19:13 : RBS told to slash remains of investment bank - LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland may halve the size of its already shrunken investment bank after its majority shareholder, the government, took a more assertive stance and told it to focus on its core rump of UK ...
Source : reuters-com
19:08 : RBS investment banking scaled down - Chancellor George Osborne revealed plans to further scale down the investment banking arm at RBS and shift the taxpayer-backed bank's focus to the UK.
01:11 : M&A activity set to rise as UK firms look overseas - M&A activity will rise in 2012 as UK businesses get an appetite for overseas acquisitions. The number of firms looking to buy or merge with an overseas competitor has more than doubled since the start of the year according to research from Royal Bank ...

Royal Bank of Scotland 18/12/2011

10:51 : RBS declines comment on report of Hoare Govett sale - LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland declined to comment on an article in The Sunday Times that it was planning to sell its Hoare Govett stockbroking arm.
Source : reuters-com

Royal Bank of Scotland 16/12/2011

18:24 : IFR-RBS report reveals huge La Salle hole - LONDON, Dec 16 (IFR) - The Financial Services Authority's report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that when UK taxpayers stepped in to rescue the bank in October 2008 it was still expecting as much ...
Source : reuters-com

Royal Bank of Scotland 15/12/2011

13:01 : RBS to close 4 M&A deals in MENA in 2012 - (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland hopes to close four acquisiton deals in the Middle East and North Africa next year worth more than $2 billion (1 billion pounds) despite a tough funding environment and a widenening gap ...
Source : reuters-com

Royal Bank of Scotland 14/12/2011

23:20 : BIS checks criminal allegations against Sir Fred Goodwin - The Department of Business (BIS) has instructed lawyers to establish if Sir Fred Goodwin has a criminal case to answer following The Daily Telegraph's revelations that former RBS directors may have broken accountancy laws.
Source : telegraph-co-uk
16:29 : Bob Diamond at the Treasury select committee – live - The chief executive of Barclays is grilled by MPs about the independent commission on banking's planned reforms4.22pm: Jesse Norman is asking Sands about the failure of RBS. Sands says RBS ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
12:54 : Salesman allowed dying man to sign away £500,000 on a pension that would ... - Eighty-year-old Norman Hensher, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer five months earlier, lost £500,000 after a salesman from State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland sold him a pension from Britain's largest insurer Aviva.
10:58 : Fred Goodwin could face charges under Companies Act - Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin could still be brought to trial, despite a regulator’s report stating there was not ‘sufficient evidence’ to punish directors for the collapse of RBS.  
Source : citywire-co-uk
09:21 : The Business podcast: Rogue banks and rogue traders - The spetacular failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008 has been well documented. When the government stepped in with only a couple of hours to spare, the full extent of the bank's indebtedness was only just beginning ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
08:57 : RBS: Goodwin could face charges under Companies Act - Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin could be brought to trial over the collapse of the bank, despite a regulator’s report stating there was not ‘sufficient evidence’ to punish the directors for the failure.
Source : citywire-co-uk
08:05 : The FSA's reasons for not pursuing Fred Goodwin make interesting reading - Chairman Lord Turner wants the rules changed – but the ongoing HBOS investigation is using the same burdens of proofAn entire chapter in the report written by the Financial Service Authority into what went wrong at Royal Bank of Scotland|Royal ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
05:47 : Welcome to the U.S. Income-Gap Capital - Growing up in poverty on the streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Carlos Gonzalez sold heroin and crack cocaine and eventually landed in jail. Now he cleans the kitchens of Greenwich private schools and of financial companies UBS AG and Royal ...
Source : businessweek-com
01:23 : FSA report sets precedent for new revelations - Publication of the report into the collapse of RBS by the FSA, which tried to fob off the public with a terse press release, is a major victory for the Committee, chaired by Andrew Tyrie.

Royal Bank of Scotland 13/12/2011

23:38 : Watchdog's verdict could put Sir Fred Goodwin in the dock - Sir Fred Goodwin could finally face criminal charges after the regulator's report into the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has suggested that the bank's directors broke Britain's accountancy laws.
Source : telegraph-co-uk
13:57 : RBS report shows why we should break up this cosy boardroom - Too often board members treat their responsibilities like a part-time hobby, says guest blogger Rob Taylor, and have neither the will nor capability to challenge each otherThe Financial Service Authority's report on the failure of the Royal Bank of ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
10:05 : FSA releases report on RBS failure - The Financial Services Authority has released its report into the near collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008. The report finds that a combination of poor management decisions, inadequate monitoring by the FSA and ...
05:08 : Sutherland may face sanction for RBS debacle - RBS directors including Irish business giant Peter Sutherland could face sanction for their role in the bank's collapse if the UK's Business Secretary Vince Cable is given leave to take action on yesterday's ...
Source : independent-ie
00:18 : City watchdog had worries about Fred Goodwin in 2003 - The Financial Services Authority was sounding alarm bells about Sir Fred Goodwin's management of Royal Bank of Scotland as far back as 2003, it emerged yesterday.
00:18 : Labour was behind failure to regulate RBS, FSA report says - Political pressure from senior Labour politicians – including the now Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls – was partly responsible for the failure to regulate the Royal Bank of Scotland in the years leading up to the banking crash, ...

Royal Bank of Scotland 12/12/2011

22:45 : Labour's lax regulation of the City contributed to RBS collapse – watchdog - FSA says Labour leadership had encouraged it to take a 'light touch' on banks and must take share of blame for financial crisisLabour's lax regulation of the City contributed to the collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland and ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
21:37 : The FSA's report on RBS doesn't do enough to counter crony capitalism ... - The RBS report pulled its punches. There's much more to be done to stop business neglecting public interestAs the report by the FSA shows, the purchase of the Dutch bank ABN Amro by the Royal ...
18:57 : UPDATE 1-UK regulator probes Deloitte auditing of RBS - LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A British regulator has opened a probe into Deloitte's auditing of Royal Bank of Scotland, the British lender that taxpayers spent 45 billion pounds ($70 billion) rescuing in 2008.
Source : reuters-com
18:57 : UK's FSA says no longer a light touch 'outlier' - LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The failure of Royal Bank of Scotland helped to shift Britain from an "outlier" light-touch regime of financial supervision into the mainstream, the Financial Services Authority said on Monday.
Source : reuters-com
16:41 : What was RBS board thinking when it backed ABN Amro takeover? It wasn't - The FSA report into Royal Bank of Scotland reveals some jaw-dropping details – and the use of flawed logic by some of Britain's best-paid, most experienced executivesOne of the big unanswered questions around the failure ...
Source : guardian-co-uk
16:39 : RPT-Independent experts say RBS report fair, balanced - LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The UK financial regulator's report into the causes and consequences of the near collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland is "fair and balanced", corporate governance experts tasked with reviewing the ...
Source : reuters-com
13:52 : Three credit trades for a tough 2012 - In an environment offering little payback for risk, strategists at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Securities are backing three key credit trades to carry them through a tough 2012.
Source : citywire-co-uk
13:08 : FTSE 100 slips as Europe sentiment ebbs - LONDON Dec 12 (Reuters) - Banks were under pressure as Britain's top shares drifted lower by midday on Monday in low volumes, with RBS weaker as investors digested a report into its near-collapse in 2008, and on disappointment ...
Source : reuters-com
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