Rogue Institution: Ian Fraser on writing about RBS, the bank that broke Britain
Why I wrote Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain, how I wrote it, and what lessons I hope […]
Royal Bank of Scotland
RBS fails to get two key elements in £33 million swaps case struck out
A High Court ruling over evidence relating to its rigging of Libor and the destruction of businesses via its global restructuring
Open Letter to Nicola Sturgeon—are bankers ‘above the law’?
It’s increasingly apparent that supposedly “independent” prosecutorial agencies — the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, and the Crown
Lloyds Bank scraps plan to sue RBS as part of RBSSAG joint action
Lloyds Banking Group pulls out of legal action against RBS following alleged “pressure” from Treasury Lloyds Banking Group has pulled
Businesses trashed by RBS ‘vampire unit’ refuse to co-operate with FCA appointed sleuths
Businesspeople who claim to have been ruined by RBS’s Global Restructuring Group are refusing to co-operate with a firm hired
The strange case of RBS and the vampire bankers
RBS’s most recent annual report and accounts are emblazoned with the words ‘Earning our customers’ trust’. The pamphlet contains about
RBS lawyers fail to distance themselves from Fred Goodwin as trial approaches
The Royal Bank of Scotland has lost a fight to have its former chief executive, Fred Goodwin, excluded from the
Hard hats for bankers
At a dinner to mark the departure of chief executive Stephen Hester in September 2013, the Royal Bank of Scotland’s
A true rebranding… or lipstick on a pig?
RBS’s decision to scrap the three-letter acronym it has used for eleven years and assert its heritage by readopting the
RBS job advert casts doubt on the assertions of Sach
The Royal Bank of Scotland seems confused over whether its infamous Global Restructuring Group is run as a “profit centre”.
Swaps film: how banks ran rings around SMEs
This short film uses extracts from a telephone call between a bank salesman and one of its business customers to illustrate how a bank, thought
On the trail of Fred the Shred
Ian Fraser’s new book, Shredded: Inside RBS: the Bank that Broke Britain, has been acclaimed as the definitive account of
Lloyds sues RBS for £420m over ‘misleading’ rights issue
In an unprecedented clash between two of the UK’s biggest banks, Lloyds Banking Group is suing government owned Royal Bank
Deadline looms for investors wishing to join action against RBS Group
Investors wishing to join the class action lawsuits against the Royal Bank of Scotland over its “misleading” April-June 2008 rights
Key funder of RBS claimant group has stock market listing suspended
Investors who are suing the Royal Bank of Scotland over its “misleading” £12.3 billion rights issue have suffered a setback
Chuka Umunna: PWC’s useful idiot?
I’ve long wondered how committed the Labour shadow business secretary and MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna really is to UK
Ulster Bank whistleblower: ‘It was simply outrageous what went on’
A former insider at Royal Bank of Scotland’s Irish subsidiary, Ulster Bank, has shed further light on the alleged systematic
The “financial terrorism” of Royal Bank of Scotland
Another of the banking scandals I’ve been covering for more than three years is gaining a wider audience, following the
£1 trillion timebombs that RBS must defuse
It won’t be broken up… but the future is far from plain sailing. By Ian Fraser Ross McEwan had
Review of the Year in Finance
The Libor scandal It was described as the banking industry’s ‘tobacco moment’. In June last year, Barclays was fined £290
The banality of vulture financing: The placid face of RBS’s distressed debt recycling factory
GRG: Derek Sach inadvertently gave away some of RBS’s trade secrets in this interview with Debtwire’s Mario Oliviero. Sach