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The Kroes UK’s banks have to bear

04.11.09
The High Street is about to undergo radical change… all thanks to a feisty woman in Brussels ... more

RBS chief hits out at Europe over its long list of sell-offs

03.11.09
Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, attacked the shopping list of sell-offs ordered on it by the European Union, which will force it to sell 318 branches... more

For sale: Three UK banks surplus to requirements

03.11.09
Banking analysis: The Government wants to create three new High Street banks to increase competition in the UK - and today it finally became clear what these banks might look like... more

RBS bars its credit cards to non-bank customers

05.10.09
NatWest-owner Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has slammed its doors closed to credit card customers who do not currently bank with the group ... more

Angry Andy Flower demands a halt to England’s self-destruct sequence

24.09.09
Team director tells his men they must cut out the simple errors to be able to mount a challenge in one-day cricket... more

Luke Wright to miss rest of series

16.09.09
All-rounder Luke Wright has been ruled out for the remaining two matches of England's one-day series against Australia with a toe injury... more

England v Australia - Third ODI - Live!

09.09.09
England named an unchanged team as they attempted to claw their way back into the NatWest Series... more

Regulator puts a block on bond repayments by RBS

04.09.09
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) it should not repay four bonds with a total value of £950 million next month until the European Union completes its probe into state aid for the part-nationalised bank ... more

Andrew Flintoff to undergo surgery on injured knee

23.08.09
Andrew Flintoff will undergo surgery on his injured knee on Tuesday, the England & Wales Cricket Board have confirmed.... more

City Spy: Lehman’s dressing down from Nomura

06.08.09
It's been almost a year since Japan’s Nomura acquired Lehman’s international operations, and apparently the remaining workers from Team Dick Fuld are finding it tough to fit in. An early problem came about when the Japanese broker kicked off a training session for new recruits by separating the men and women ... more

City Spy: For Carter's pal, no wheat - just chaff

23.07.09
What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more

Fixed-rate mortgages costs set for rise

10.06.09
The cost of fixed-rate mortgages looks set to increase in the coming days as lenders pass on a rise in wholesale funding costs to borrowers... more

Hand over the money! Banks are still starving us, say small firms

06.04.09
High street banks have failed to back thousands of London businesses in the recession despite receiving billions of pounds of taxpayer help, an Evening Standard survey has found... more

RBS £1 billion helping hand for small firms

02.04.09
Royal Bank of Scotland has signed a deal to lend £1 billion more to small businesses under the Government’s Working Capital Scheme... more

Minister who said yes to Fred has £4m RBS pension

05.03.09
Embattled City Minister Paul Myners was plunged into a fresh row as it emerged that he had a £4million pension with links to Royal Bank of Scotland... more

US is right to order banks to reveal bonuses

02.03.09
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Shredded reputation of 'King of Scotland'

26.02.09
Former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin has enjoyed - and latterly endured - a variety of nicknames and epithets over the years, charting precisely his rise and fall from grace... more

Slump in number of mortgage products on offer

09.02.09
The number of different mortgage deals available has slumped to only a tenth of its level before the credit crunch first struck, figures show... more

Banks pressed to go easy on arrears

01.12.08
Finance: Pressure mounting on Royal Bank of Scotland's competitors to follow its pledge to give homeowners at least six months' grace on their mortgage payments before it starts repossession action... more

NatWest Three banker returned

25.11.08
Fraud: The first of the so-called NatWest Three bankers jailed in the United States for their role in the Enron fraud has returned to Britain to complete his 37-month sentence... more

Market report: RBS shares get a vote of confidence from Citi

25.11.08
If you want to test your patience, buy shares in Royal Bank of Scotland... more

Risky business from the HBOS dealbreakers

11.11.08
Sir Peter Burt is back, but the soundbites haven't changed... more

Lloyds TSB scoops up a key man

04.11.08
Lloyds TSB pulls off a major coup by poaching the man largely credited with the successful integration of NatWest into Royal Bank of Scotland... more

Yes, this really does mean part-nationalisation

08.10.08
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We’re all blabbing about our money now

08.10.08
The spread of fear in London has not followed the pattern of the classic horror movie. There was no slow build-up of tension, no gradual realisation of the danger ahead. One day the panic was something Robert Peston discussed on the BBC. The next, it was everywhere... more

Commentary: Sale will signal end to the panic and create calm

17.09.08
One fateful Saturday back in the Seventies, National Westminster Bank had to issue a statement saying it was not going bust... more

New skipper Kevin can play lead role for years ahead

27.06.08
As Paul Collingwood's stand-in, Pietersen can show he has got what it takes to be a future captain at Test level... more

England bid to stop the slide

24.06.08
England go into the penultimate NatWest Series match against New Zealand in danger of heading even further down the world one-day rankings... more

Bank on the Counting House

29.04.08
The Counting House proves how much better suited a city cathedral is to drinking and dining than in its previous guise as a bank.... more

RBS costs a fortune, but the culprits still hang on

24.04.08
The reddest face in Edinburgh belongs to Archie Hunter, a 64-year-old former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland - and chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland's audit committee.... more

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