RBS reveals Brexit plan as Pearson sheds Penguin Books
RBS and Pearson ended a busy week of reporting with big announcements, confirming an Amsterdam hard Brexit contingency plan and divestment of a 22% stake in a key business, respectively.
RBS and Pearson ended a busy week of reporting with big announcements, confirming an Amsterdam hard Brexit contingency plan and divestment of a 22% stake in a key business, respectively.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to pay the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) $5.5bn (£4.2bn) to drop its outstanding litigation against the bank.
Lloyds may have paid back its debt to the UK government but its future is still chained to the Brexit outcome.
Barclays’ shares were down substantially this morning despite the fact its profits doubled in the first quarter, but the market was more receptive of RBS’s return to profits.
Wealth managers will be keeping a keen eye on the banking sector this week as four of the sector’s biggest players report first-quarter results.
The FTSE 100 fell 0.7% to 7,221 as RBS rounded off a busy week of UK bank results with a staggering £7bn loss, while Standard Life failed to wow with weaker gross inflows.
The US Department of Justice is suing the British bank and two of its executives for deliberately selling “defective and misrepresented” mortgage loans during the peak of the housing bubble.
Just when you thought it was safe to dip your toes back into the murky waters of banking stocks, so comes another stress test.
Shares in RBS had fallen 5% top 187.2p by mid-morning on Wednesday after the bank emerged as the biggest failure in the Bank of England’s latest stress test scenario.
Royal Bank of Scotland has continued to flounder in what it described as the “current low interest rate and low growth environment,” returning £469m in attributable losses, compared with a £940m profit the year prior.
Shares in RBS were down 2.36% to 177.6p this morning in light of reports of leaked documents revealing its restructuring division tried to turn a profit from failing businesses.
Royal Bank of Scotland shares slipped 4.6% after the bank reported a worse than expected loss.