Outgoing Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group, Eric Daniels, has today said he is opposed to the proposal of splitting up Britain’s banks, arguing that it will not enhance competition within the sector. Meanwhile, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Stephen Hester, agreed and said breaking up banks won’t improve the outcome for [...]
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), which is Japan’s largest bank by assets, is to buy project-finance assets from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in a deal valued at £3.8 billion. The deal comes as RBS, which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, continues to dispose of legacy assets. Meanwhile, the deal will see MUFG strengthen [...]
It has been revealed today that customers of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest will be able to access their bank accounts through Britain’s 12,000 post offices. The announcement comes after Postal Affairs Minister, Edward Davey, recently said he was concerned that some banks do not allow customers at post offices to conduct transactions, [...]
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, has today announced it has plummeted back into the red with a £1.4 billion ($2.3 billion) pre-tax loss during the third quarter. This compares with a loss of £1.8 billion in the same period a year earlier but also compares unfavourably with [...]
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, is set to reignite its dispute over bonuses after hiring John McIntyre. Mr McIntyre, the former Lehman Brothers banker, is a renowned figure in the City after successfully suing his former employer, Dresdner Kleinwort, for a £2 million bonus. He will join [...]
Spanish banking giant, Santander, has today reported a fall in third quarter profits, due to changes on bad loan provisions. The bank, which is the euro zone’s largest, said third quarter profits fell 13% to €2.1 billion (£1.8 billion) as provisions for bad loans hampered results. Before the changes to one-off provisions, which were put [...]
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 83% owned by the taxpayer, is understood to be looking at selling a £1 billion Spanish property loan portfolio, as it looks to offload unwanted assets. The speculation comes as the bank has been selling assets under the orders of the European Commission, as a punishment of [...]
The bosses of Britain’s top six banks have revealed a £1.5 billion fund, designed to kick-start lending to small businesses. It was announced in August that the chief executives of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Chartered and the heads of the UK operations of HSBC and Santander, would address the shortage [...]
It has been reported that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is axing approximately 500 administrative jobs at its investment banking division. The bank, which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, has axed around 26,000 jobs since the onset of the financial crisis. In a statement today, the bank said: “We continue to make efficiencies [...]
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is faced with 100 activists at its headquarters, who are protesting against the bank’s role in financing oil industry developments which they believe could be harmful to the environment. The Camp for Climate Action (CCA) have set up marquees, eco-toilets and kitchens at the RBS’ Gogarburn site. Environmentalists have [...]
As part of its restructuring plan, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is preparing to sell its payment processing company, WorldPay, just days after it announced the sale of its Williams & Glyn’s branch network. Private equity firms, Advent International and Bain Capital, have been in talks to buy WorldPay since last month, according to [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 83% owned by the taxpayer, today announced a profit for the six months ended June, boosted by falling charges for bad debt. The bank posted a net profit of £9 million ($14.3 million) compared with a £1.04 billion net loss in the same period a year earlier. Meanwhile, [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has confirmed it will sell the 318 Williams & Glyn’s network of branches to Spanish banking giant, Santander for £1.65 billion. The majority of the branches are in the North West and will be turned into Santander banks, with the process expected to be completed by December 2011. Commenting on [...]
It has been reported that Spanish banking giant, Santander, is set to acquire the 318 Williams & Glyn’s network of branches from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). According to the Financial Times and Times newspapers, RBS, which is 83% owned by the Government, is expected to confirm the deal later today. However, the deal [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined US banking giant Goldman Sachs $550 million (£356 million). The fine, which represents the largest against a financial company in the SEC’s history, comes as Goldman agreed to settle civil fraud charges over how it marketed a sub-prime mortgage product. The UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), [...]
Spanish banking giant Santander has agreed to purchase Swedish bank SEB’s German business for €555 million (£466.5 million). SEB, which is Sweden’s third-largest bank in terms of market capitalisation, acquired its German retail banking business ten years ago and had planned to sell it in 2008. However, the sale was delayed due the global financial [...]
Lloyds Banking Group, which is 41% owned by the taxpayer, has announced it has agreed to sell its private equity unit to buyout firm Coller Capital in a deal worth £332 million. The deal will see 40 private equity investments transferred to a newly-established partnership – 70% and 30% owned by Coller and Lloyds respectively. [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is taking the necessary steps so the Government can start selling its 83% stake in the bank. According to reports, chief executive Stephen Hester was quoted as saying: The sale “won’t be conducted in one go….but I would be disappointed if there would not be the first steps towards privatisation [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, has announced it has completed the sale of its metals, oil and European energy business, Sempra Commodities, to US investment bank, JP Morgan, in a $1.6 billion (£1.1 billion) deal. Sempra, which is based in San Diego reported 2009 revenues to be in [...]
Spanish bank giant Santander has today confirmed it has submitted an offer to buy Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Williams & Glyn’s network of branches. The deal will give Santander approximately 1,645 branches, or 12% of the market, and cement its status as the second largest mortgage loan provider. The Spanish bank already has a [...]
Phone fraudsters stealing bank card pins
Fraudsters using a phone scam to trick bank card holders into revealing their pin numbers stole £750,000 in the first four months of this year. This is the same amount stolen through this scam in the whole of last year. The fraudster telephones a bank customer, often someone elderly or vulnerable, telling them that their [...]
FSA rules out ban on interest-only mortgages
Speculation that the Financial Services Authority would ban interest-only mortgages as part of its Mortgage Market Review has proved to be unfounded. However, lenders will be required to monitor the performance of the investment product taken out by the customer to repay the mortgage at the end of its term. Investments are performing poorly because [...]
Bank of England may end free in-credit banking
A director of the Bank of England has warned that official intervention could be considered to end the ‘dangerous myth of free in-credit banking’. Andrew Bailey has already spoken out against free banking in relation to the mis-selling of financial products. In a speech made available to media, he reiterated his concern, saying that it [...]
Bank of England votes against more economic stimulus
The Bank of England voted against a further round of quantitative easing, at its latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. Just one member, David Miles, voted for further asset purchase to encourage growth in the UK economy, while the other eight members voted to keep the Bank’s quantitative easing programme steady at £325bn. The minutes [...]
Catalogue debt growing says helpline
Calls from people concerned about their debts with mail order catalogues accounted for more than 12 per cent of all calls received by National Debtline last year, compared with just 8 per cent in 2007. More people were concerned about catalogue debt than about payday loans, mortgage or rent, according to the Money Advice Trust [...]
Homeserve faces mis-selling investigation
HomeServe, which provides emergency insurance cover and domestic repairs to households in the UK, is to be investigated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Issues over the possible mis-selling of household emergency policies were uncovered last October during an internal review at the Walsall-based company. Homeserve’s call centre staff were found to be selling ‘Complete [...]
OFT warns Wonga over debt collection methods
Payday loan company Wonga used aggressive and misleading methods to collect debts from customers, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has found. Wonga sent letter and emails to certain customers suggesting they had committed fraud and threatening to report them to the police if they did not act in the way Wonga suggested. The company [...]
NS&I re-launches investment account
National Savings & Investments (NS&I) has re-launched its Investment Account at a higher interest rate than it previously offered. The account now offers 0.75 per cent before tax, compared with between 0.2 and 0.3 per cent previously, depending on the account balance. Deposits and withdrawals on the account can no longer be made at Post [...]
Rightmove reports property downsizing trend
Two in five property owners planning to sell in the next year are planning to ‘trade down’, compared with one in four who plan to ‘trade up’. A survey by property website Rightmove found that moving to a smaller home is the main reason for moving in nine out of the ten regions in the [...]
More people failing to save for retirement
The proportion of people with no pension savings has grown from 20 per cent to 22 per cent over the past year, according to Scottish Widows’ latest survey. The pension provider surveyed 5,200 adults in the UK, aged 30 or over, and earning at least £10,000 a year, for its annual review of pensions. Ian [...]
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