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Rbs budget planner2/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Businesses facing an increased risk of HMRC investigations, expert says.The loss included a £3.8bn of legacy litigation, conduct and regularatory costs and £4.8bn of impairments and other losses. Ross McEwan, who took the reigns in October 2013, said cleaning up a £2.2 trillion balance sheet whilst addressing the many failings of the past had carried a very heavy cost. 2015Īn £8.2bn loss in 2013 made RBS the Top 500’s biggest loss-maker on the 2015 ranking. It sold another 20 per cent raising £20m in September 2013, as the bank was forced to offload Direct Line by the end of 2014 to meet EU competition rules linked to its £45.5bn state-funded bailout. RBS sold off 34.7 per cent of its holding in Direct Line on the insurer’s stock market debut in 2012 and sold a further 17 per cent in March of 2013. Now 81 per cent owned by the taxpayer, the group said that operating profits rose to £3.4bn from £1.8bn, but the bottom line had been hit by a number of fines, compensation for mis-selling financial products and debt impairments. 2014Īfter a number of years of falling down the rankings, RBS entered the 2014 Top500 at 291 after seeing turnover drop to £17.9bn as a result of its massive sell-off programme, a near £14bn fall from its high in 2007. Now 82 per cent owned by the public, RBS by this point was shredding thousands of jobs. Towards the end of 2009, the bank placed £281.9bn of its toxic assets under government protection, with the assets ranging from negative equity properties to hedge fund loans in the Cayman Islands. New chief executive Stephen Hester would face a constant battle to restore the group back to health, with major restructuring including the disposal of its Direct Line insurance subsidiary and cost cuts of £2.5bn. Business growth in Scotland outstrips that of the UKĪfter seven years as Scotland’s number one, 2010 saw RBS rapidly fall down the Top500, coming in at 261 after reporting the biggest British corporate loss in history, with losses of £24.1bn.Following a £12bn rights issue and a further £20bn government bail-out, they ended the year 60 per cent owned by the taxpayer.Ĭhief executive Fred Goodwin and chairman Sir Tom McKillop would leave the company, with Stephen Hester tasked with bringing the bank out of crisis. This, combined with the collapse of wholesale markets, left RBS very vulnerable. 2009ĭespite continuing their dominance at the top of the Insider rankings, and reporting turnover and profit figures of £31.1bn and £9.9bn respectively for 2007, the damage caused by the previous year's global financial crisis was shining through for all to see.Ģ007’s purchase of ABN Amro went ahead despite the global uncertainty, a move that the bank would regret in the years that followed. RBS started 2008 off by topping Scottish Business Insider’s Top 500 listing for the sixth consecutive year.īoasting a turnover of £28bn and pre-tax profits of £9.2bn for the year ending 2006, the bank was fresh off of beating Barclays Bank to the £71.1bn acquisition of ABN Amro the year previous. ![]() ![]() Here, we document some of the financial facts and figures of RBS’s rise, fall and journey back to normality. It’s easy to forget that just over ten years ago, they were arguably the face of Scottish business, dominating Insider’s Top 500 ranking for a long stretch of the 2000s. The announcement that the Royal Bank of Scotland has returned to profit is the latest step in the bank’s road to recovery since the financial crisis.įrom the fall of banking hero Fred Goodwin to various restructurings of internal operations, the Edinburgh-based group’s downfall has been well documented, as it dominated many front page headlines. ![]()
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