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Stephen Hester , chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland , is in pickle. On the one hand, he must find ways for the U.K. bank - soon to be 84%-government owned - to make money for minority shareholders and employees. On the other, he must satisfy the... by blogs.wsj.com/source | related posts

Iain Banks, the acclaimed Scottish sf and thriller writer, has joined with an illustrious list of prominent Scots in calling on the British government to reform the Royal Bank of Scotland. RBS received a titanic tax-funded bailout (much of which was diverted into... by boingboing.net | related posts

The chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland has said that a slow recovery from recession would be far better for the UK in the long term than a rapid bounce. In an interview with me for the last in the present series of Leading Questions , broadcast on the News Channel this... by bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston | related posts

GOOD point from Alan Ruskin of Royal Bank of Scotland who highlights that this is a very unusual recovery. Look at the US purchasing managers' data. Since 1997, the score on the manufacturing survey has averaged 5 points below the services report. This time round, as today's... by economist.com/blogs/buttonwood | related posts

much cash as possible while driving the businesses into bankruptcy, often picking up the distressed assets themselves at firesale prices. Small business owners lose everything. You couldn't make this up. The FSA stinks to high heaven for its failure to nail the perpetrators. Apparently the Reading branch of the... by ukcommentators.blogspot.com | related posts

Royal Bank of Scotland loses $5.5 billion in 2009 LONDON ? Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, government-owned after being bailed out, reported a loss of 3.6 billion pounds for 2009 but beat expectations and said the peak of bad loans from the economic... by blog.taragana.com | related posts

Royal Bank of Scotland in 2009 loss of 3.6B pounds LONDON ? Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported Thursday a loss of 3.6 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) for 2009, ahead of market forecasts, as income rose by 34 percent. The... by blog.taragana.com | related posts

RBS registers better-than-expected loss in 2009 LONDON ? Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported Thursday a loss of 3.6 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) for 2009, ahead of market forecasts, as income rose by 34 percent. The loss compared to a 24.3 billion... by blog.taragana.com | related posts

LONDON, Feb 25 – Royal Bank of Scotland shrank its 2009 operating loss to 6.2 billion pounds, still one of the largest European banking losses for the year, despite a jump in bad debts which the bank says may now have peaked. That compares to a loss... by themalaysianinsider.com | related posts