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• Protection for the future.

  - 2008-04-24

  Byline: Hal Austin Phase one is nearing an end The credit crunch, which has plagued the mortgage and banking sectors since 9 august last year, seems to be on the brink of crossing the Rubicon. By the time you...

  Tags: Bank of England, Banking, FINANCE, investment, Mortgages, Royal Bank of Scotland

• Royal Bank of Scotland in talks with Chinese trust: report

  - 2007-12-18

  BEIJING AFP — British banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland is in talks to buy 19.9 percent of Suzhou Trust in China, its latest attempt to ramp up its position in the Chinese market, state media said Wednesday. "The two parties have got initial results in negotiations over key...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland

• ABN deal to have low impact on local jobs.

  - 2007-06-03

  Byline: Vanessa Burrow Jun 03, 2007 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The takeover of Dutch bank, ABN Amro, is not expected to result in major job losses in Australia. ABN Amro employs an estimated 110,000 staff worldwide, some 750 of whom are...

  Tags: ABN AMRO, Banking, job, Royal Bank of Scotland

• Royal Bank of Scotland consortium to decide on ABN Amro takeover

  - 2007-05-25

  LONDON AFP — A European banking consortium, led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, said on Friday that it would reveal next Tuesday whether it would launch a formal takeover bid for Dutch giant ABN Amro. Only on Wednesday, the company had said it expected to make a statement...

  Tags: ABN AMRO, Agence France-Presse, bank, Banking, consortium, Royal Bank of Scotland

• ABN Amro takeover battle resumes in London next week

  - 2007-05-25

  LONDON AFP — The bidding war for Dutch banking group ABN Amro, which has pitted Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland against rival Barclays, looms large over the London stock market next week. The FTSE 100 finished at 6,570.50 points on Friday, down 70.4 points or 1.06 percent from a...

  Tags: ABN AMRO, bank, Banking, FINANCE, Investment, London, Royal Bank of Scotland, Vodafone Group Plc.

• RBS: TARGET IN SIGHT As the Royal Bank of Scotland homes in on

  - 2007-05-06

  PETER de Vries punched the air in triumph and then threw his arms round Jurjen Lemstra. The spectacle-wearing, shorthaired, smart- suited Dutchman had been sitting anxiously in the Amsterdam District Court waiting for the verdict. And when it came, the "absolutely delighted" representative of the VEB shareholders group hugged the...

  Tags: ABN AMRO, bank, Bank of America Corp., Banking, Barclays Plc., consortium, FINANCE, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, shareholder

• ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (RBS).

  - 2007-03-09

  With Royal Bank of Scotland's RBS retail banking operation having managed a mere 2 per cent profit hike in 2006 to GBP2.3bn (rising to 5 per cent growth when wealth management profits are included), it's just as well that the group is rather more ...

  Tags: banking, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland

• RBoS buys 46 Marriott hotels for 951 million pounds

  - 2006-04-21

  LONDON AFP — British banking group Royal Bank of Scotland has bought 46 Marriott hotels from leisure group Whitbread for 951.4 million pounds (1.374 billion euros, 1.172 billion dollars). The hotels were owned by Whitbread as part of a 50/50 joint venture with US-based group Marriott, but the agreement...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Banking, FINANCE, Marriott, Royal Bank of Scotland

• ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (RBS).

  - 2005-07-15

  It seemed to be something of a tale of two halves for Royal Bank of Scotland when the bank issued a trading update last month. The bank had good news to report from the corporate banking and financial markets side of the operation, where organic grow ...

  Tags: bank, banking, Royal Bank of Scotland

• Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton column.

  - 2004-08-19

  By Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 19--ABBEY DEAL TO STIR THE BID POT: A few weeks ago I said in this column that the best solution for Abbey National and British banking would be for it to...

  Tags: Banking, Government, Regulations, Royal Bank of Scotland