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Banknotes signed by Sir Fred? They’re only fit for his flunkies

Sir Fred's Ł31m plane order ditched by RBS

Top two at RBS are facing new calls to head for the exit

15 months of gloom ahead, says RBS chief

RBS Ł12 billion cash call is stern test for Sir Fred Goodwin

Barrage of criticism by RBS shareholders

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No Minister - why tycoons like Lord Sugar just can't cut it in politics

05.11.09

This week in New York, Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. Here, the man who most Londoners would want to challenge Boris Johnson has put his foot in it... more

Cost-cutting RBS risking a talent drain in move north of the border

04.11.09

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'Lehman Sisters' would crash too, says top adviser

03.11.09

Gordon Brown's independent adviser on the City today rejected Harriet Harman's claim that the financial crisis would not have happened if women had been in charge of banks.... more

Business beware the Sugar rush that wiped out Amstrad

15.06.09

No one doubts Sir Alan Sugar produces good television, but there's never been a government appointment that has prompted such ridicule — and not a little discomfort... more

Banknotes signed by Sir Fred? They’re only fit for his flunkies

29.04.09

Sir Fred Goodwin employed a flunky to ensure cash machines at Royal Bank of Scotland HQ only dispensed banknotes bearing his signature, it has been claimed... more

RBS pensioners get 0.1% rise as Fred scrapes by on Ł1,900 a day

08.04.09

Royal Bank of Scotland has told retired employees they will receive just 0.1 per cent inflation on their annual pension payouts this year... more

Time to stop this public flogging - RBS chief

03.04.09

Sir Philip Hampton, the new chairman of nationalised RBS, has blamed former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin for the bank's disastrous performance and Government bailout... more

We may rage against the bankers but we can’t do without them

27.03.09

Before next week’s G20 summit ministers must leave off their rhetoric and remember the City’s importance to the country as a global financial centre ... more

Sir Fred's Ł31m plane order ditched by RBS

19.03.09

Royal Bank of Scotland has cancelled an order for what would have been former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin's most expensive plaything yet: a $45 million, 19-seater private jet... more

MPs must find new targets for their pot-shots

18.03.09

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US is right to order banks to reveal bonuses

02.03.09

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The bank chiefs still don't get it

27.02.09

Amid the continuing row over the pension package awarded to former RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin, today's gloomy results from Lloyds Banking Group confirm the sector's unprecedented crisis... more

Get real – Gormley’s plinth is the place to be

27.02.09

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has never been satisfactorily topped since it was built in 1841 for an equestrian statue of William IV, never installed... more

Let’s just hope it is the final bill

26.02.09

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Top shareholders can and should do more to stop reckless bosses

13.02.09

Analysis: The blame game over the banking crisis is in overdrive with the former heads of Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS in the dock this week... more

Treasury Select Committee MPs don't have a clue

12.02.09

The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. ... more

'Fat cats' play victim card and get away with it

10.02.09

The defining moment of this supposed public humiliation came early on. It was when the bank chiefs were asked about their remuneration, whether they thought their company's bonus policy had contributed to the subsequent disaster. ... more

There's only one way to make bankers listen to their critics

02.02.09

The reputation of bankers is at an all-time low and still they ignore the lessons of the crisis. We now need extreme measures to restore confidence... more

Fred the Shred is wheeled out for Formula 1

27.01.09

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RBS getting its tax back - with interest

23.01.09

The Ł20 billion bill the taxpayer faces for bailing out RBS is greater than the total in corporate taxes the lender paid under Sir Fred Goodwin's watch... more

Man with the mission to win back the City's trust in RBS

15.10.08

Profile: Stephen Hester has been chosen by the Government to turn round the bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland. In the past, his method was "slash and burn". RBS has been warned... more

Top two at RBS are facing new calls to head for the exit

08.10.08

Credit crunch: Sir Fred Goodwin, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, and his chairman Sir Tom McKillop were once again under pressure to quit after today's Ł500 billion banks bailout... more

RBS bosses survive as it chalks up Ł691m loss

08.08.08

Chairman and chief exec of RBS look to have escaped from the bank's Ł691 million loss with their skins intact... more

RBS set for Ł1.7bn UK record bank loss

04.08.08

Bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin is set to come under renewed pressure from investors this week... more

When a sacking is no answer

23.07.08

Anthony Hilton warns about the dangers of firing the boss... more

15 months of gloom ahead, says RBS chief

11.06.08

Bank is to take a cautious approach to business going into the second half of the year... more

RBS Ł12 billion cash call is stern test for Sir Fred Goodwin

30.05.08

Should private shareholders in RBS part with their hard-earned cash by buying more shares and backing the bank's Ł12bn rights issue? Nick Goodway investigates...... more

Arrogant banks must be brought to account

28.04.08

Driving into work the other morning I thought I was hearing things. Sir Fred Goodwin, said the commentator, should keep his job because the Ł12 billion rights issue is the Royal Bank of Scotland boss keeping his side of the bargain to help out the country. ... more