Siobhan Kennedy
RBS share sale good for Osborne – but don’t the public get a say?
You could argue that it’s us the taxpayer – the people who bailed out RBS in the first place – that should have been given first dibs to buy the shares.
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RBS costly apology to small business customers
RBS has made a public apology and offered up to 400 million pounds in compensation over the way it treated many of its small business customers.
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RBS fined over IT fiasco
RBS is fined £56m for an IT problem that left one in ten locked out of their accounts. The regulators who imposed the fine say it’s big enough to make the bank “sit up and take notice”.
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Siobhan Kennedy
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FactCheck: has the RBS sell-off lost the government £1bn overnight?
The government has sold a 5.2 per cent stake in RBS for 330p a share – £2.1bn. But was it a billion pound loss or an astute financial decision in an uncertain market?
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RBS shares raise £2.1bn at £1bn loss for the taxpayer
Chancellor George Osborne says the sale of 5.4 per cent of RBS will pay down the national debt, but the reduced price raises questions about the timing and speed of the sale.
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RBS customers hit by payments IT glitch
About 600,000 expected payments to RBS customers were not made because of computer problems at the banking group.
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Siobhan Kennedy
RBS sell-off, time to move on?
So George Osborne could sit there and continue to take the flak every time something goes wrong…
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Red kites: from the brink of extinction to life in the burbs
After persecuting them nearly to extinction, mankind is helping red kites make an incredible comeback, with thousands of suburban bird lovers now feeding the majestic raptors in their back gardens.
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Siobhan Kennedy
More RBS losses – so why such a huge package for the CEO?
RBS today announced a £3.5bn loss for 2014 – the bank’s seventh straight year of losses. So is it right that CEO Ross McEwan should take home an overall package of about £2.6m?
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RBS reports £3.5bn loss as chief executive gives up £1m
Royal Bank of Scotland reports a £3.5bn loss for 2014 – down from £9bn a year earlier – and announces the appointment of Sir Howard Davies as its new chairman.
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Terror problems in France ‘started in suburbs’
French journalist Nora Hamadi tells Channel 4 News that racism and tensions in the suburbs are to blame for terrorism in France following the latest Charlie Hebdo siege.
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MP: RBS treated squeezed small businesses unfairly
Andrew Tyrie MP says it is unacceptable that RBS bosses gave evidence to the Treasury committee that needed correction, but is reasonably sure it was not lied to.
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RBS admits squeezing small businesses for profit
RBS is accused of deliberately driving small businesses to the wall for their assets – and now it has emerged that the bank’s bosses have apologised for giving inaccurate evidence to parliament.
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Taxpayer-backed RBS fined over mortgage advice
Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest are fined £14.5m after the City regulator finds “serious failings” in its advice to mortgage customers.
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RBS 200 per cent banker bonuses vetoed by government
Plans by part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland to pay bonuses double the size of salaries are scuppered by the government.
