Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
News Alert 18 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 18, 11:30pm Women battle for boardrooms Growth in the number of women on FTSE 100 boards has stalled over the past year, in spite of concern that male domination of the corporate world may have contributed to the global financial crisis. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d6d2266a-d47a-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
News Alert 18 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 18, 5:15pm International finance: Banks knocking on the door Compared with rival financial hubs in the Gulf, the Qatar Financial Centre's headquarters in Doha seems fairly somnolent, despite the country's lively economy. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/eb98fc26-d30e-11de-af63-00144feabdc0.html ©...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
News Alert 18 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 18, 1:05pm Hands warns governments on banks Guy Hands, head of private equity house Terra Firma, warned on Wednesday that unless governments pushed banks to restructure $7,000bn of leveraged loans that are due to mature by 2014, the US and Europe could face the "Japanese problem"...
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Belgian insurance company Fortis Holding is following the sale of a number of insurance businesses now on the market but may not have enough capital to pay the prices being asked, Fortis Chief Executive Bart De Smet said Tuesday on a conference call with analysts. Banks such as Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and ING [...]
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
News Alert 17 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 17, 8:20pm Scottish economy set to struggle The Scottish economy is expected to emerge from recession in the fourth quarter of this year - but less strongly than the rest of the UK and with the potential for a "double dip" back into recession next year. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8e65978e-d3b4-11de-8caf-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
News Alert 17 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 17, 7:00pm Barclays retail chief warns new entrants The new head of global retail banking at Barclays has joined the backlash of traditional bankers against the entry into banking of supermarkets and other consumer companies. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/285b2244-d3a8-11de-8caf-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
News Alert 16 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 16, 4:35am Leasing: Wheels come off an engine of growth When Steven Udvar-Hazy implored Airbus to tweak the design of its A350 aircraft, the aerospace giant heeded his advice. And after Mr Hazy publicly scolded Boeing last year for one of a number of costly delays to its 787 Dreamliner programme,...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
News Alert 16 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 16, 1:55am Canadian protest over RBS oil sands role Royal Bank of Scotland and the government, which holds 70 per cent of the bank's shares, will be targeted by protests this week from Canadian aboriginal groups aiming to stop RBS lending to companies that invest in oil sands extraction in...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
News Alert 15 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 15, 9:00am Pension deficits understated by €300bn Europe's 430 largest listed companies are underestimating their collective pension deficits by €300bn (£267bn, $446bn), according to analysis by AlphaValue, an equity research house. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c59e1cc8-d083-11de-af9c-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
News Alert 12 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 12, 8:40pm Tories must find a way to save Turner for the nation Hector Sants fears there could be a regulatory "turf war" if responsibility for enforcement activity is split. There's a simple way for him to limit the damage: grab a large chunk of the turf. That is one (uncharitable)...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The plan by Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc to ban employee bonuses after receiving state bailouts may undermine the companies' performance, said the lord mayor of London's financial district.
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
News Alert 11 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 11, 11:35pm RBS chief Hamptonunder fire over Anglo board role Shareholders are protesting that Sir Philip Hampton has taken a non-executive board position at Anglo American in addition to his full-time role as chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, majority-owned by UK taxpayers. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cbb9b4e6-cf16-11de-8a4b-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
News Alert 11 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 11, 6:10pm US indicts hackers accused of $9m ATM theft US and Estonian officials claim they have identified the ringleaders of one of the most advanced criminal hacking rings operating today, apprehending an Estonian accused of helping orchestrate a $9m theft from a Royal Bank of Scotland...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
News Alert 10 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 10, 11:25pm HSBC fears Lloyds and RBS sales exclusion HSBC's chief executive on Tuesday expressed regret that the bank was likely to be frozen out of the bidding process for assets being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1b031ee4-ce30-11de-a1ea-00144feabdc0.html...
Arts Alerts (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
News Alert 10 November 2009 Company: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS:LSE) Frequency: Immediately November 10, 9:45pm UK banks split into two tiers HSBC and Barclays provided stark evidence that the UK's banks have polarised between successful commercial operators and struggling part-nationalised ones, as the country's two biggest banks reported robust third-quarter results. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ca8882a4-cdc8-11de-95e7-00144feabdc0.html...
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