Royal Bank of Scotland
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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