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Award scheme for student societies »

A new scheme has been launched to reward students with entrepreneurial talent. The Enterprising Students Societies Accreditation (ESSA) sees RBS and Find Invest Grow (FIG) stump up £95,000 of prize funds to reward students who run the most ...

Wed 16 Nov 2011 by Tom McCallum | Read more »

People and Planet protest against RBS' "dirty" investments  »

People and Planet protest against RBS' "dirty" investments

Students across Scotland protested against the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) funding of the extraction of tar sands in Canada. The students, part of the People and Planet human rights campaign, are accusing the bank of funding the devastation of liv...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Juliet Grant | Read more »

Edinburgh financial reputation still intact »

Edinburgh financial reputation still intact

The movement of senior financial sector jobs out of Edinburgh may not be as damaging to the local economy as previously suggested, an Edinburgh academic has told The Journal. Responding to claims that the financial “centre of gravity” has ...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Landmark case against Treasury chucked out »

RBS Headquarters

Campaigners have reacted angrily after a court case which saw the Treasury accused of breaking its own rules on the spending of public money when buying the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was thrown out of court yesterday. The case, which sought a judic...

Wed 21 Oct 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

People & Planet suit against Treasury gets its day in court »

RBS Headquarters

A campaign which began as a student movement at the University of Edinburgh has won the right to pursue HM Treasury through the courts, in an effort to prove that the government have breached guidelines on the spending of public money. In the first ca...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Pension groups enlist former PM's wife in case against RBS »

Charie Blair

Two council pension funds suing RBS for compensation can now include Cherie Booth QC, wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, amongst their legal team. The Merseyside and North Yorkshire funds have hired legal firm Coughlin Stoia to pursue a class a...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by David Stevenson | Read more »

Goodwin to face investigation ordered by RBS »

Royal Bank of Scotland’s chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, with the support of Chancellor Alistair Darling, has ordered an investigation into Sir Fred Goodwin’s 10-year stint in charge of the Bank. In a new attempt to claw back some of the ban...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

RBS's Fred Goodwin: the world's worst banker? »

Sir Fred Goodwin

The summer of 2004 was a good one for Fred Goodwin. Four years into his time at the helm of Royal Bank of Scotland, it's fair to say he'd made his mark: top of the Scottish Power 100, incumbent European Banker of the Year, and to cap it all, a knightho...

Mon 26 Jan 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

RBS criticised over mysterious 'Silent Nine' »

MSPs from across the political spectrum have been adding their voices to shareholders of the Royal Bank of Scotland this week in calling for the removal of the troubled bank's board of independent non-executive directors – the so called "silent n...

Sun 25 Jan 2009 by Ross Melton | Read more »

RBS to write off £1bn loan to Russian oligarch »

The waning confidence in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has dropped further in the past few days, as it emerged that it is on the point of cancelling a substantial sum loaned to a Russian oligarch. Of the £2.5 billion loaned to Leonid Blavatni...

Sun 25 Jan 2009 by Abi Buglass | Read more »

Brown credit crunch success reaps rewards in Glenrothes poll »

Gordon Brown

The bailout of Scottish banks has been seized on by Unionist parties who have been weighing in against first minister, Alex Salmond's plans for Scottish independence this week.In the cauldron of the Glenrothes by-election, Labour, the Conservatives and...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Kevin Guyan | Read more »

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