On Thursday 6th October 2011 Sir Mervyn King the Bank of England's governor expressed fears that Britain is in the grip of the world's worst ever 1930s-style shortage of money financial crisis, after the Bank of...
The Job cuts are to come from the sale of its insurance arm and 318 bank branches – a condition of EU's £54bn taxpayer support. In the November of 2008 the Government became the majority owner of RBS with a reported £37 billion taxpayer bail-out package for a near 70%...
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Three old banking names will arrive back on the British high street, the UK Govenment is expected to anounce this week.They are to split up the Lloyds, RBS and the Northern Rock banking groups and form three new banks. Both banks are basically owned by the taxpayer,...
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Unhappy shareholders from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are set to sue the former directors after they feel they were mislead about how the bank was preforming and because of that...
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Unlike their American neighbours, Canada's banking system has held up superbly during the global banking crisis. In fact, they even made a profit during the last quarter when most would agree market conditions were at their worst. This has unsurprisingly led to many world...
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RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) is cutting 9,000 jobs, on top of the layoffs previously announced. The cuts will affect IT, Group Manufacturing, and document processing, with half of the layoffs affecting UK...
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An attack on a branch of RBS in London is one of many things that you could see today watching the news on television. As 4000 protesters walked about the streets of London, images and videos on websites and TV...
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Today is indeed a grim day for British banking, it is being reported that Royal Bank of Scotland; which was part nationalized by UK tax payers monies has reported an annual loss of US $ 34 billion. This is the...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are to axe 2,300 office jobs, but said there will be no branch job loses. Former RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin said that he "could not be more sorry" for what had happened to...
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Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell is attempting to make Scottish banknotes legal in England and Wales. Right now people can refuse to accept them. Scottish banknotes are strange, they do not have legal status...
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Scottish bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has broke the record books in the UK. RBS shares have plunged 67% and have anounced jobs cuts. " Royal Bank of Scotland shares have plunged 67% after the bank...
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" Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to cut about 3,000 jobs in the next few weeks, the BBC has learned. The positions will go in its global banking and markets workforce, spanning more than 50 countries, but is...
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Buoyed by the British government, Royal Bank of Scotland has been stuck trying to sell of its insurance holdings. It may have found a buyer in CVC Capital Partners. As CVC is not the only bidder, the deal has not...
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It has been revealed that ailing British banking giant,the RBS group, that includes Royal Bank of Scotland and National Westminster Bank plc (Natwest) is to be taken over by the British...
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THE government is set to make an announcement before the markets open this morning of a £49bn rescue package, which will in effect mean that the government becomes the majority shareholder in the HBOS group,...
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