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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Iain Banks, Gordon Roddick and convenor of the Church of Scotland are among signatories to a letter calling for action over the bank's financing for the Cadbury bid and tar sands projects Iain Banks, the best-selling novelist, and a group of MPs, church leaders, academics and environmentalists have this weekend written to Alistair Darling to protest at the involvement of Royal Bank of Scotland in...
Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | yesterday
A collection of articles ... From The Times: Dubai debt fears threaten credit crunch 2 — and RBS is exposed From Bloomberg: India Studying Effect of Dubai’s Debt Delay Plan on Its Economy India, the world’s top recipient of migrant remittances, is examining the effect Dubai’s attempt to delay debt repayments may have on Asia’s third-largest economy, central bank Governor...
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fears are growing over Britain's exposure to the financial turmoil in the stricken Arab state of Dubai. UK banks account for half the £60billion of global loans to the debt-laden emirate, new statistics show. State-controlled giant Royal Bank of Scotland has helped lead the charge, provoking fears that taxpayers could be stung if the loans go unpaid. The Treasury has already injected £45.5billion...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Royal Bank of Scotland signs the final agreement to formally enter the government's scheme next month, paving the way for £240bn of toxic assets to be insured
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
They moved to Britain half a century ago, found work, had families and built new lives. And now they're moving back… Eustace Maxim thought I might be the cable technician. An appointment had been made for no definite time, so there was nothing to do but wait. But from the vantage point of his veranda in Jimmit, with its panoramic view of the Caribbean Sea, there are worse places you can watch...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
News Alert 27 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 27, 11:35pm Ex-Lloyds chairman eyes banking ventures Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman of Lloyds Bank, is considering backing a number of new banking ventures, as entrepreneurs queue up to try their hand at challenging the dominance of the Big Four banks. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/45bff094-db96-11de-9424-00144feabdc0.html...
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Or why a relatively tiny place like Dubai could be big trouble for the American banking system. And while UK banks, such as Standard Chartered, HSBC (HBC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Barclays (BCS) are much more exposed to Dubai World, with a total of more than $30 billion in default risk according to J.P. [...]
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
News Alert 27 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 27, 7:55pm Lloyds rights issue: should investors buy? Investors in Lloyds Banking Group are being urged by some stockbrokers to take a "wait and see" approach to its £13.5bn rights issue, after shares in UK banks were hit this week by fears of exposure to Dubai's debt problems....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Large losses feared at HSBC and RBS as City watchdog seeks urgent assurances City regulators are urgently seeking assurances that Britain's major banks are protected from the deepening debt crisis in Dubai amid fears that a possible default by the region's major property developer will cause another major jolt to the already fragile financial system. The Financial Services Authority is understood...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Royal Bank of Scotland Group underwrote more loans than any institution to Dubai World, while HSBC Holdings has the most at risk in the United Arab Emirates.
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
British banks such as Lloyds TSB, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland are lending or providing investment banking services to cluster bomb producers, according to a report released last month by IKV Pax Christi and Netwerk Vlaanderen , viewable at Stop Explosive Investments . Cluster bombs release hundreds of smaller submunitions, which do not always denotate on impact and can remain in the ground...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
News Alert 27 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 27, 4:50pm Resilient FTSE recovers poise after sell off London equities made a resilient stand on Friday, recovering strongly after Wall Street indices failed to slide as much as expected during morning trade in New York. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/103806e8-db21-11de-9023-00144feabdc0.html ©...
Peston's Picks (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As Stephanie Flanders has pointed out , there is no serious direct threat to the health of the global financial system from the inability of Dubai World to keep up the payments on $22bn of debt. Even if all these loans had to be written off - and it's entirely possible that write-offs will be zero - those losses can be absorbed by banks and other lenders. In the UK, for example, the Financial Services...
Malaysia-Finance Blogspot (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Well, just as swiftly foreign money came into emerging markets, just as swiftly will they leave, and not even on something direct. An indirect scare out of Dubai seems to be enough reason to take the chips from the table. On Wednesday, Dubai World, the government investment company behind some of the emirate's most ambitious projects, said it was seeking to delay repayment on a tranche of its debt....
Flip Chart Fairy Tales (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
This morning’s financial news is dominated by fears that the state-owned Dubai World is about to default on its debt repayments. And guess which bank has the largest exposure to Dubai World? Of course, that’ll be good old Royal Bank of Scotland, underwritten by the British taxpayer. Don’t worry, though, because RBS has only lent £2.2 million to Dubai. That’s [...]
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carrolltrust | 24/09/2009
Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief
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