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RBS, majority state-owned after receiving a British government bailout last year, said the EU deal had been amended so the bank will now cut its loan book through further disposals if it falls short of its 2013 balance sheet target by £30 billion pounds.
Tags: RBS, Belgium, Brussels, Business Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Royal Bank of Scotland
Given that syndicated loans bankers have had little to do in the past year (after all, you'd be mad to lend to dodgy companies in a recession, no? regardless of what the Government says), why not have a party? On Wednesday night, the 43 per cent taxpayer-owned...
Tags: Sir Tom McKillop, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom, London, Tom McKillop, Business Finance, Currys, Pharmaceutical industry in China, AstraZeneca, HSBC, Dixons, DSG International plc, Health Medical Pharma, Lloyds Bank, Harrods, UCB, Royal Bank of Scotland Group
YOU might think bankers worry only about balance sheets, risk assessment and bonuses...Now a banker needs to take a stance on the rights of indigenous Canadians, foreign control of British industry, and the plight of jobless people during a recession.
Tags: political banks, rescued banks, RBS, United Kingdom, London, Lloyds Banking Group, Offshore finance, Finance, Tax haven, Business Finance, Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, International taxation, Offshore bank
RBS chief executive Stephen Hester claimed there would be no more big cuts as he gave evidence to the banking inquiry being held in Holyrood...His comments came at the end of a month in which the largely state-owned RBS said it would be cutting 3,700...
Tags: RBS, executive stephen, chief executive, Stephen Hester, rbs chief, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Business Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred Goodwin, Western Europe, Northern Europe, The Scotsman, Economy of Scotland, Island countries
As foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are pumping money heavilty into the Indian stock markets, the government is keeping a tight vigil. The government is little worried about the fact that a huge chunk of this investment is coming from from alleged...
Tags: Hong Kong, ANZ, RBS, tax havens, India, New Delhi, Tax haven, Investment, Participatory notes, Foreign Institutional Investor, Business Finance, Crore, Royal Bank of Scotland, Muslim Commercial Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Banks of Australia, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Banking Group shareholders will gather in Birmingham on Thursday to decide whether to give it the green light for a further capital raising exercise and approve a £13.5 billion rights issue. Banking shares are among the stock most widely held by small...
Tags: Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, share price, banks share, Barclays Capital, RBS, HSBC, Colin McLean, uk banks, United Kingdom, Birmingham, Barclays, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Bank, HBOS, Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds Bank, Business Finance
Ireland by attempting to dump £7 billion of toxic loans into the Irish “bad bank”. Stephen Hester, the RBS chief executive, is expected to lodge an application to join Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) within the next few weeks through...
Tags: RBS, Ireland Hester, Irish, Nama, Treasury, Stephen Hester, Belgium, Brussels, Ulster Bank, Toxic asset, GMAC, Fred Goodwin, Politics, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, National Asset Management Agency, Royal Bank of Scotland, Business Finance
THE hoo-ha surrounding the appointment of Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, as a non-executive director of mining giant Anglo American last week just goes to show how tetchy the City continues to be about the banks – and particularly...
Tags: Philip Hampton, RBS, UKFI, UK Financial Investments, Anglo American, executive chairman, Gordon Brown, United Kingdom, Sutton Coldfield, Sainsbury's, Hampton Virginia, UK Financial Investments Limited, Coutts, Lazard, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Financial Services Authority, Business Finance
The Royal Bank of Scotland has hit back at claims it is engaged in corporate bullying, by questioning smaller brokers' appetite for underwriting riskier rights issues. The chief executives of Panmure Gordon, Numis and Evolution wrote to City minister...
Tags: RBS, United Kingdom, London, Underwriting, Panmure, Banking in the United Kingdom, Paul Myners Baron Myners, Panmure Gordon, Business Finance, Social Issues
When Lloyds's rearing black horse kicked Halifax's white Xs off a huge brown brick building in the centre of Leeds, marketing manager Rachel McHale thought her job was safe; she could not have been more wrong. Six months after the takeover in January,...
Tags: Christopher Thomond When Lloyds, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, financial services, Tesco Bank, HBOS, Britain, Leeds University, Halifax, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Leicester, Bank of Scotland, ACCORD, Birmingham Midshires, United Kingdom bank rescue package, Business Finance, Lloyds Banking Group