Royal Bank of Scotland has taken a £733 million hit on its holding of Greek bonds, pushing the bank back into the red in the first six months of the year... more
The fact that one analyst has described Royal Bank of Scotland's full-year results as "a tad boring" must have come as music to chief executive Stephen Hester's ears... more
Market round-up: Like the naughtiest kid in school telling tales about a classmate to avoid another caning, Royal Bank of Scotland downgrades rival Lloyds Banking Group
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Britain is expected to foot an estimated £7 billion bill for the Irish bail-out, but there are fears the cost would be far greater to the UK if Ireland's embattled economy failed... more
Market round-up: Royal Bank of Scotland is one of London’s biggest losers today as investors fretted over the state-controlled lender’s exposure to Ireland... more
Aberdeen Asset Management gets access to thousands of the world’s richest people who bank with Coutts by buying a chunk of RBS's asset management business... more
Royal Bank of Scotland, which this week was promised another £33.5 billion of taxpayers’ money, says it lost a further £1.5 billion in the past three months ... more
Political fury was mounting today after it was revealed that the taxpayer-owned banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland have pumped almost £2.8 billion into their Irish offshoots over the past 10 months ... more
The Irish government have changed the law to allow the offshoots of UK banks Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS in Ireland into its €400 billion (£315.5 billion) deposit-guarantee scheme... more
Pressure is mounting on the European Union to intervene in the Irish Government's decision to gurantee all savings and deposits held in six Irish banks and building societies... more
British savers are looking to shift their money into Irish banks after the government there gave a 100 per cent guarantee to back all savings in the country's six banks... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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