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[...] Plans to split Royal Bank of Scotland into a so-called good bank and bad bank have backing of former Bank of England [...]

[...] Royal Bank of Scotland has recruited former FSA regulator Jon Pain in a new role to oversee conduct. The [...]

[...] Royal Bank of Scotland has now received three bids for the 315 branches it is being forced to sell under [...]

[...] The chancellor's vacillation over the sell-off and/or break-up of Royal Bank of Scotland is very destabilising, and the mark of a complete lack of strategy What a mess. A [...]

[...] Will Mark Carney match his undoubted finance skills with a magician’s ability to turn rabbits into doves, [...]

[...] Bank of England policymakers swung behind Mark Carney, the new governor, and voted unanimously against extending quantitative easing at this month's [...]

[...] when Paul Tucker resigned after losing out on the top job to Canada's former central banker, Mark Carney. More Details:http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/19/bank-of-england-deputy- [...]

[...] Sir Jon Cunliffe has been appointed Bank of England deputy governor as part of Mark Carney's new recruitment drive. Photograph: Jose Giribas/Bloomberg News The Bank of England has [...]

[...] The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to keep interest rates on hold at 0.5%. It has kept the key borrowing rate at that level since March 2009. The MPC [...]

[...] and the European Central Bank tried to declare their independence from the US central bank. Interest rates might be heading up in the US, they told the financial markets, but that does not have to [...]

Bank of England will make sure that monetary conditions are kept ultra-loose until there is irrefutable evidence that there will be no growth relapse. [...]

[...] governor Mark Carney is expected to say that City expectations of an early rise in interest rates are ‘unwarranted’. Photograph: Simon Dawson/AP The Bank of England governor, [...]

[...] calculations. The figures, compiled by Bloomberg, show that Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and HSBC will have cut their global headcount by 24% to a nine-year low of [...]

[...] the party's coalition partners on notice that attempts to sell Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group through a traditional privatisation could run into resistance. More Details:http://www. [...]

[...] António Horta-Osório will be hoping to reveal results that show Lloyds Banking Group getting back to normal after the 2008 bailout. Micha Theiner/City AM/Rex Features A flurry [...]

[...] All five major UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS and Standard Chartered) recorded a profit in the first half of the year, for the [...]

[...] of asset pools currently under consideration as part of the review that was commissioned by George Osborne, the Chancellor, in June, and which is due to report its findings later this month. The fact [...]

[...] George Osborne, the Chancellor, is considering selling part of the Government’s stake in Lloyds [...]

[...] Competition regulators are expected to deliver a massive boost to George Osborne on Wednesday when they rule that branch disposals by Britain's two big state-backed banks are [...]

[...] inShar  Link to video: George Osborne hails profit on Lloyds shares sale   António Horta-Osório, the boss of [...]

[...] Stephen Hester said the privatisation of RBS could take a number of years. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/ [...]

[...] for the Guardian All chief executives had to come to terms with professional mortality, Stephen Hester said last year. "Chief executive jobs bring with them job insecurity … I've always [...]

[...] 't look small to most: it is £1m a year. But that is 16.7% less than his predecessor, Stephen Hester (who will be staying in the post as RBS chief executive until October 1). As ever with [...]

[...] of a complete lack of strategy What a mess. A week ago this paper told how the resignation of Stephen Hester as chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland was the result of a decision to accelerate the [...]

[...] (Reuters) - The Bank of England may provide more stimulus for Britain's economy if financial markets get ahead of themselves and threaten to choke off its recovery, its governor said on [...]

[...] new governor Mark Carney which has seen the economy show fresh signs of life. Having warned financial markets in July against premature bets on an interest rate hike and set out in August its new plan [...]

[...] from the US central bank. Interest rates might be heading up in the US, they told the financial markets, but that does not have to mean that rates are going up in Europe too. The date was fitting. [...]

[...] days. Mark Carney is still finding his feet as the new governor of the Bank of England. Financial markets get things wrong with stunning regularity. All this is true, yet the fact remains that the [...]

[...] LONDON/FRANKFURT, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank (LSE: 0H7D.L - news) will warn next week of a slowdown in fixed income revenue and add to [...]

[...] Reuters/Reuters - Anshu Jain, Co-chief Executive of Deutsche Bank speaks during a shareholders meeting in Frankfurt, May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski [...]

[...] FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG (Xetra: 514000 - news) pledged to cut risky assets from its balance sheet in response to [...]

[...] fraud. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to announce a plan under which 16 financial institutions will redress consumers who they had referred to the insurance company CPP, which has [...]

[...] Lending Scheme (FLS) was launched in the summer of 2012 net lending by banks and other financial institutions taking part in the scheme had fallen slightly. More Details:http://www.theguardian.com/ [...]

[...] fail", and action must be taken to ensure no more taxpayer money is used to rescue financial institutions, Bob Diamond, the former chief executive of Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) , has said. Mr [...]