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We’d all like to see Fred on the hook but RBS investors will be wiser to settle

27 May 2017

9:00 AM

27 May 2017

9:00 AM

‘Fred Goodwin off the hook again,’ declared the Scottish Daily Record. That neatly summed up one strand of sentiment behind the RBS Shareholder Action Group’s battle for compensation for losses incurred in the bank’s £12 billion rights issue in 2008 — preceding its £45 billion taxpayer bailout, in which any remaining shareholder value was largely wiped out.

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