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Running a bank’s tough. That’s no reason to start handing capital back

3 March 2018

9:00 AM

3 March 2018

9:00 AM

A mixed bag of annual results from the big banks. RBS, still 73 per cent owned by the taxpayer, recorded a small profit for the first time since 2008 but took flak for a newly released report on the outrageous behaviour of its Global Restructuring Group, the team that mistreated struggling business customers in the post-crash phase.

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