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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester told CBI delegates that the worst was over for the British economy, but the majority of the audience begged to differ</description>
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    <description>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</description>
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    <description>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</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Rebuilding Britain's banks:&lt;/b&gt; On the anniversary of the bailout of Britain's banks, we begin a six-part series on how the industry changed - and reforms that are urgently needed</description>
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    <description>When the details of Stephen Hester's bonus scheme were disclosed a month ago, there were guffaws in the City</description>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland shares tumbled 8% as hopes that the banking crisis is over and the economy might quickly return to health faded</description>
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    <description>RBS chief executive Stephen Hester has warned Chancellor Alistair Darling to get off his back and let him get on with running the bank</description>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester has today tried to deflate the controversy over his pay packet by pledging to retain any share awards for an extra two years</description>
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    <description>You don't have jobs like Stephen Hester without becoming very wealthy. And indeed Hester, 48, is just that, amassing more money than arguably he needs</description>
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    <description>The City expects big things from the new man charged with steering state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland back on the road to recovery</description>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester promised the bank would not be turning its back on his former colleagues in the commercial property world</description>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland declared it cannot see any "green shoots" of recovery as it posted further losses after writedowns of nearly £5 billion</description>
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    <description>Stephen Hester is everything his predecessor Sir Fred Goodwin was not. He is large in stature, he has no discernible accent and he is a banker rather than an accountant.</description>
    <dc:date>2009-02-26T09:11:00Z</dc:date>
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    <description>The taxpayer's stake in Royal Bank of Scotland is set to rise to a maximum 95 per cent under a third bail-out package for the stricken lender unveiled</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Banking: &lt;/strong&gt; Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester says it will take up to five years to turn round the bank</description>
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    <title>Beyond all this red ink may lie a new dawn</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Commentary: &lt;/strong&gt;Is this enough? That is the £24 billion question facing RBS investors as they survey the wreckage of what they can only pray was their only annus horribilis</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Banking: &lt;/strong&gt; Royal Bank of Scotland’s shares jumped amid plans to sell off large chunks of its non-core business and axe up to 20,000 jobs</description>
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    <title>£91 billion question to keep Hester on his toes at RBS</title>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland dramatically scrapped the sale of its insurance division, which includes Direct Line and Churchill and had originally been expected to raise the bank up to £7 billion in badly needed capital</description>
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    <title>NatWest in crisis: shares dive to 10p</title>
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    <description>Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland collapsed after it revealed a £45billion loss - the biggest in British commercial history</description>
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    <title>&lt;b&gt;Commentary: &lt;/b&gt;RBS move marks a deep change</title>
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    <description>The banks are no longer the kingpins they once were</description>
    <dc:date>2008-12-01T11:21:32Z</dc:date>
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    <title>RBS chief: We'll lend more but still make a loss</title>
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    <description>Royal Bank of Scotland underlined the scale of the banking crisis when it warned that it would make a loss this year despite the Government's  £20 billion bail-out</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Banking: &lt;/b&gt;Royal Bank of Scotland warns of worse to come as it reveals the final details of its £20 billion bailout by the Government</description>
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    <description>So what will Stephen Hester will do at RBS? Those seeking clues will naturally take an interest in how the former head of Abbey house-cleaned this rather dusty property company during three years of boom and one year of bust</description>
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    <description>Stephen Hester, the boss of British Land and the soon-to-be chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has called the bottom of the property market, claiming it will be “some time next year”</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Profile: &lt;/strong&gt;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</description>
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