Project Dash for Cash - RBS.

tapzilla2k

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The taxpayer put RBS back on it's feet after the crash, therefore the taxpayer will have to accept liability for any work carried out by the bankers thereafter.

So the taxpayer will yet again have to clean up the mess caused by the quality of work and again rely on the integrity of decent and sincere RBS bankers.


(Cynical and contemptuous smiley)
 
RBS has lost about £50 bn since it was bailed out and has just agreed to pay an enormous fine in the US. So where is the money coming from to pay for all that? Does RBS have large asset reserves to draw on or ...?
 
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RBS has lost about £50 bn since it was bailed out and has just agreed to pay an enormous fine in the US. So where is the money coming from to pay for all that? Does RBS have large asset reserves to draw on or ...?

Profits/Disposals.

If you strip out the writedowns/fines etc etc, parts of RBS are making profit, year on year. Then they have to set aside chunks of cash/profit each year, to pay for future fines.

One more big fine to go I think. Probably several billion $$$ from the yankies again.

No doubt they'll be another scandal sooner or later though.
 
It's clearly not a great idea to get on the wrong side of the US authorities.

Indeed. Seems a bit rich considering a lot of the worlds ills (financial crisis) originate stateside.

Many US banks are all hunky dory again (share prices massively recovered), yet a lot of UK/Euro ones are still in the gutter. Still reeling from large fines imposed by US authorities.

That and the fact that banks are still being hung drawn and quartered over here (eg PPI).
 

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