Fred Goodwin

Scots to wield sword at ABN

news.com.au     Sep 4, 2008   4 related          

Scott Murdoch | September 05, 2008 THE Royal Bank of Scotland will implement a management purge at ABN AMRO after securing a deal to buy the remaining equity stake in the domestic operations of the investment bank for...                    

City exodus is yet another taxing issue for Darling

timesonline.co.uk     Aug 30, 2008          

You might have thought the tax problems that threatened to trigger a corporate exodus from the UK earlier this year were over. In May, as The Sunday Times revealed, some of Britain’s top businessmen paid a visit to No...                    

This Royal Bank of Scotland play may yet end in bloody tragedy

telegraph.co.uk     Aug 31, 2008          

By Mark Keinman Have your say Read comments Alongside Drury Lane and Shaftesbury Avenue, 280 Bishopsgate does not sit naturally as a hotbed of the London theatrical establishment. Such is the siege mentality which has...                    

Ruth Sunderland: We're still in early days of housing grief

guardian.co.uk     Aug 31, 2008          

How much worse will the housing market get? Sorry to disappoint, but previous housing downturns have lasted a long time from peak to trough. Not so fast Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland are quite pleased that the...                    

Taylor Wimpey's house of horrors

thisismoney.co.uk     Aug 28, 2008   22 related          

The US, UK and Spain are three of the most troublesome property markets around. Like most of the housebuilders, Taylor Wimpey was still happily snapping up land and doing deals a year after America's property market went...                    

Credit Agricole, Goldman, Henderson, Lehman, Natixis, RBS

hereisthecity.com     Aug 28, 2008          

The New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs still has the 'Teflon' factor. Despite the news Wednesday that the New York state Attorney General's Office was looking into the firm's underwriting of auction-rate securities...                    

RBS shores up its boardroom

guardian.co.uk     Aug 28, 2008   13 related          

RBS sign. The deputy chairman of Northern Rock, Stephen Hester, 47, who is also the chief executive of property group British Land, will join the RBS board after he steps down from the state-owned lender on October 1....                    

David Prosser's Outlook: The real victims of the housing market crisis need all the help they can...

independent.co.uk     Aug 28, 2008   12 related          

His colleagues in the housebuilding industry won't thank him for his honesty, but Taylor Wimpey's chief executive, Pete Redfern, hit the nail on the head yesterday in admitting there is little the Government can do to...                    

Succession is the key to success for RBS's superboard

ft.com     Aug 27, 2008          

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the first meeting of Royal Bank of Scotland’s new improved superboard! What with new directors vying to show they’re ready to challenge Sir Fred Goodwin and existing directors out to prove...                    

Hester in running to succeed Goodwin at RBS

ft.com     Aug 27, 2008          

By Jane Croft and Kate Burgess in London Stephen Hester, chief executive of British Land, emerged as a candidate to succeed Sir Fred Goodwin at the helm of Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday. Mr Hester, 47, was one of...                    

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