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As recently as last July, when RBS was struggling to shore up its balance sheet, executives insisted the bank would not sell its BoC stake.

RBS and UBS declined to comment. A Yanzhou spokesman said the company was focused on the transaction and declined to comment further.

RBS was forced into a government bail-out a year later, and UK taxpayers still hold an 83 per cent stake in the bank.

RBS said on Tuesday it was in "advanced discussions" with bidders for the remaining assets in Asia it had decided to sell.

The board and RBS have chosen not to respond or to discuss my Offer with me.

Unlike other investment banks, which rewarded senior staff with large amounts of restricted stock, RBS continued to pay big cash bonuses.

RBS and others had become "entangled with casino-style investment banking operations" , he said.

Both Barclays and RBS have done this sort of thing before.

John McCormick, RBS Asia-Pacific chairman, said the deal would let it "participate fully in the opening up of China's securities market" .

Santander expressed concern about RBS's capital reserves and pushed Sir Fred to raise cash by selling the bank's insurance operations.

'Negative expectations had gone really far, ' said Alberto Gallo, senior credit strategist at RBS Global Banking & Markets in London.

By taking personal charge of the 111 cost-cutting initiatives promised by RBS, Sir Fred delivered greater savings than it had projected.

The disposals being forced on RBS owe little to competition or viability concerns and quite a bit to the punishment motive.

Profits continued to grow but the rating attached to RBS's shares waned as investors worried about the aggressive approach to acquisitions.

'The gold price is up in any currency, really, ' said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.

'It was an absolute bloodbath, ' said John Richards, head of strategy at RBS Global Banking & Markets.

Natwest made RBS a leading player in the European and US debt markets, which were at the beginning of a long boom.

His comments are a clear sign of RBS's determination to push ahead in China at a time when the bank is selling assets.

"Total inflation has now started its collapse that will be seen over the next year, " said Alan Ruskin, strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.

The UK bank said the sale to ANZ was at a US$50m premium over book value.

This opinion is echoed by Sandy Morris, aerospace and defence analyst at RBS in London.

As recently as July, bank executives ruled out a sale but RBS is under pressure to focus resources on lending to the UK economy.

RBS's top China economist Li Cui writes in a research note published Wednesday that "evidence of China losing out is still absent. "

NORTHERN ROCK was rescued in September 2007, more than a year before the much-bigger Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds TSB and HBOS.

RBS put the Asian assets up for sale in March following a strategic review, after posting the biggest loss in UK corporate history.

"If you were banking on the US driving a vigorous recovery, think again, " said Alan Ruskin, a strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.

The Bank of China stake looked anomalous the minute UK taxpayers assumed control of RBS.

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RBS has every confidence that having been put on a proper footing, the board will now reach appropriate decisions regarding the next steps.

Recently, outraged fans have protested against the RBS, pleading with them not to extend the loan to the American tycoons.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the biggest property lender, is in an especially peculiar position.

This combination of factors means HSBC is left as the only natural buyer for what RBS is selling.

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In April, RBS appointed Martin Broughton chairman of the soccer team as a condition of extending financing to the team by six months.

RBS said on Monday it will be forced to sell more assets than expected but said it was sticking to its turnaround plan.

"Markets have an underlying sense of greater fragility, " said Alan Ruskin, strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The reality, outside of the auto sector at least, is that layoffs have probably been moderating steadily for several months.

Back in February, traders on the floor of Royal Bank of Scotland in Connecticut gasped in shock at their screens.

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RBS put the assets up for sale this year, after reporting the biggest loss in British corporate history.

Appeals to Sir Fred's sense of honour have yielded about as much as an RBS share.

Moreover, RBS's proprietary activity index, a proxy for GDP, is pointing to the lowest rate of growth in over a decade.

RBS said it believed it has 'substantial and credible legal and factual defenses to these claims and will defend them vigorously. '

The mediocre pot will contain the other foreign retail assets, which RBS will attempt to auction.

There were "underlying deficiencies in RBS management, governance and culture which made it prone to make poor decisions" , the report said.

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He also described RBS's probable use of the government's asset-guarantee scheme, which will soon be rolled out to other banks as well.

Problems surrounding banks' exposure to commercial property comes as City analysts warn that RBS is set for a New Year profit warning.

After today RBS could, if they wanted, put Kop Holdings into administration leaving Liverpool in danger of a nine-point penalty.

RBS said yesterday that no bonuses or pay increases would be made to staff associated with the major losses of 2008.

Sir Fred Goodwin, RBS chief executive, suggested that China may eventually become one of its most important private banking markets.

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The Treasury holds a majority stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and a substantial slice of Lloyds Banking Group.

It was only last week that the government became aware that the decision of the previous Board of RBS may have been discretionary.

RBS did not respond to requests for comment.

It pinpointed the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland as having the biggest potential problem, as it helped arrange $2. 3bn of those loans.

RBS could close some of its corporate branches and concentrate on the NatWest retail brand.

When RBS accountants got their hands on ABN Amro's books they were confronted by a string of unpleasant surprises.

By making a hostile bid, the consortium could avoid messy management compromises, allowing RBS quickly to impose its cost disciplines.

RBS is being forced to sell its global merchant services unit by EU regulators as part of the price of taking state aid.

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling said yesterday, RBS acquisition of ABN AMRO Bank is the "catastrophic" for.

As RBS attempted to maintain its growth rate without making acquisitions, investment banking was playing an increasingly important role.

The controversy is not surprising. Britain had two of the world's largest bail-outs, of Lloyds Group and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

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When RBS presented its results, Sir Fred and team would wear white shirts and matching ties with an RBS logo.

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So RBS and LBG want to renegotiate to reduce the cost of the insurance and the volume of assets they place into the scheme.

RBS is 84 percent owned by the British government after a series of bailouts during the financial crisis.

RBS also has high expectations for private banking, citing the history and quality of its Coutts brand.

Royal Bank of Scotland is building a new management team and a new and streamlined board.

By approaching RBS directly, he hopes to seize control of the club by guaranteeing the repayment of the vast majority of the debt.

But by normal standards of dealmaking megalomania (think of Sir Fred Goodwin, once of RBS) Mr Thiam is a model of courtesy and lucidity.

Banker friends (I still have a few) say that RBS was uniquely reckless in its bid for ABN Amro.

RBS's share price did not improve.

At RBS, the vision was a global investment bank within a global retail bank.

Under the terms of the agreement, RBS is free to sell its shares at the end of the year.

RBS says that it has "legal and factual defences" against such claims.

'If China shows a willingness to do something there is an easy solution, ' says Sanjay Mathur, economist for RBS in Singapore.

It also means dodging the inevitable deterioration in Chinese banks' asset quality, earnings and share performance.

and to Santander for emerging from the ABN AMRO transaction, which killed off RBS and Fortis, with a big presence in Brazil at a fair price.

The latest cuts come in RBS's manufacturing division, which includes technology, call centres and group property.

The FT said the five percent stake held by RBS had trebled in value to 2. 4 billion pounds ($4. 80 billion) since it was acquired in 2005.

Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist at RBS, found grounds for optimism in the survey results on new orders and finished goods inventories.

On Wednesday, activists smashed the villa and Mercedes of a former head of RBS.

Europe has let lots of blood, too: the bosses behind fiascos at UBS, Fortis and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have gone to the guillotine.

Foreign banks with a large exposure to Ireland, notably Royal Bank of Scotland, also fell.

Ideally, RBS would like LaSalle for itself, as well as ABN AMRO's global wholesale and markets business.

Jacques Cailloux, chief European economist of RBS, stresses the errors in a recent paper.

Jacques Cailloux, chief European economist of RBS, stresses the errors in a recent paper.

A spokesman for ANZ said Sunday that 'negotiations are progressing with RBS regarding selected Asian businesses.

Ministers and RBS executives were hammering out details of the plan, which will be formally announced on Thursday.

RBS operates 18 branches in China, but the bank has not disclosed how many of these it is to relinquish as part of the sale.

RBS is a giant lender, with 62% of its income generated in the U. K.

The move will see RBS take control of ABN Amro's wholesale banking division as well as its operations in Asia.

The deal would stretch RBS's capital ratios, but its profitability meant these could be quickly rebuilt.

Even so, it is not clear whether RBS and LBG are really strong enough to loosen their ties to the government.

A sell-off of assets owned by Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland may eventually restore some competition to the banking market.

"Under Goodwin's tutelage, RBS also became Europe's biggest backer of leveraged buyouts, " reporter Simon Clark notes.

The government rescued RBS only because the public needs the bank to supply credit and to provide a payments system.

In November 2007, RBS and its partners, Fortis and Banco Santander, completed their acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro.

But below boardroom level, RBS and other groups are preparing to pay bonuses to investment bankers who continue to generate profits.

RBS was building up its investment banking business while Santander had stuck to retail banking, expanding in Latin America and the US.

Britain is expected to release details of an asset protection scheme alongside the release of RBS's 2008 results.

Results for Greenwich, its US bond house, and other capital markets businesses were bundled in with those of RBS's UK corporate lending arm.

Riot officers entered the RBS building just after 2pm to support the building security and eject the demonstrators.

Among those believed to be assessing whether to divest stakes is RBS, the UK bank which owns 5 per cent of Bank of China.

The sale has been complicated and delayed by RBS's decision to retain wholesale banking operations in key regional markets across Asia.

RBS has signed exclusive tie-ups with BoC in three areas: credit cards, wealth management and corporate markets.

If the scheme fails, however, the government will have no choice but to accept the unacceptable and nationalise RBS.

As this excellent Bloomberg postmortem notes, by June 2008, RBS had become Europe's largest lender.

For now, its ventures with Bank of China in credit cards, wealth management, insurance and global banking remain intact.

What is worse, ABN Amro, now a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, then insured much of the issued securities.

Moreover it has a much-enhanced physical presence as a result of the ABN Amro takeover, which gave it 18 additional branches in China.

Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland and Australia's Macquarie Group have also recently made redundancies.

When RBS and Santander forged an alliance in 1988, both were small, ambitious lenders on the fringes of the European market.

RBS is also seeking to avoid losing highly skilled and experienced employees who can see opportunities elsewhere.

Last week, the Edinburgh mansion and BMW car of Sir Fred Goodwin, former RBS chief executive, were attacked.

The taxpayer is already the majority owner of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group in Britain.

The talks could regain momentum if RBS showed flexibility on the sale price, people familiar with the situation said.

This also has the effect of boosting RBS's capital ratios, which measure capital as a proportion of total risk-weighted assets.

Both declined to comment on Tuesday, although an official statement by RBS was expected last night.

That kind of expansion at Lloyds and RBS has compounded those groups' balance sheet woes.

In recent years, the only larger issues have all come from banking groups such as Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Fortis.

"This isn't a negotiation, it's a drive-by shooting, " complained Fred Goodwin, the RBS chief executive.

RBS's regional retail banking platform vastly expanded after the 2007 acquisition of the Asian operations of ABN Amro.

RBS will take over ABN's wholesale business as well as its Asian operations.

RBS is in the process of selling its Chinese retail and commercial banking business to HSBC.

She previously worked for RBS Coutts' private bank joint-venture with Bank of China in Beijing and Shanghai.

When the surcharges are recalculated, banks that have shrunk dramatically, such as Citigroup and RBS, could shift to a lower tier.

The British government owns 58 per cent of Royal Bank of Scotland.

"If the unrest continues we could see people re-evaluate existing commitments, " said James Fleming, of RBS Coutts.

The government is attempting to maintain the impression that RBS is operating as an independent company.

It may also surprise observers who point out that the takeover of ABN Amro, the Dutch lender, has given RBS a wholly owned network in China.

"When people surrounded RBS, I could understand police tactics, " said Jack Bright, 19.

RBS is trying hard to meet its agreed lending target, says a spokesman.

RBS will be hoping regulators are getting into the spirit of the season.

By some measures, Lloyds is in fact now in worse shape than Royal Bank of Scotland.

While RBS has told the BBC it is not negotiating directly with Huang, it is understood he is mounting a credible bid.

Two of the biggest shipping banks (RBS and HBOS) are in state-backed rehab.

He then cancelled his remaining meetings and rushed back to RBS's offices.

HSBC and Barclays, British banks that showed better risk management than RBS, also saw a decent profit.

Meanwhile RBS's remuneration report was rejected by 90% of shareholders at the annual meeting.

RBS sold a chunk of its Asian assets in August to ANZ, the Australian bank, for $550m.

Investors complained, forcing RBS to halve its investment.

"We are nervous about inflation, " said David Ader, bond strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.

Britain has now swapped its preference shares in Royal Bank of Scotland into pure equity, taking its stake to 70%.

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RBS will hold a one-third stake in the venture, the maximum a foreign firm can own under local rules.

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On November 3rd Britain's two monsters, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), got the treatment.

"Aluminium is set to play catch up and redress the imbalance, " says Nick Moore, head of commodity strategy at RBS.

But Sir Fred Goodwin, RBS chief executive, yesterday told the Financial Times he hoped to lift Asian revenues to 5 per cent.

However, many strategic investors, including UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland, sold their stakes this year as soon as lock-ins expired.

Edinburgh-based RBS joined the asset insurance program last month.

Next month, Hanspeter Brunner, formerly of RBS, will take over as BSI's chief executive in Asia, also based in Singapore.

About a third of RBS's value sits in its investment bank.

RBS has had comparatively little presence in the region to date. Revenues there account for just 1 per cent of group income.

Though government's voting stake will be capped at 75 per cent, RBS will effectively be state-owned, if not fully state-controlled.

However, RBS decision-making over a possible exit is more complex.

The overall fee paid by RBS for this insurance is about 4 per cent of the amount insured.

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In the UK, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland are likely to face demands to shrink.

RBS, one of Britain's biggest banks, was bailed out and shamed.

Yet his aggressive pursuit of growth meant that, when the crunch came, RBS had further to fall.

RBS believes it is on a sure footing: it has learnt a lot and seen inside the corridors of power.

And RBS will all but eliminate corporate hospitality.

UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which manages the government's shareholdings in RBS and Lloyds, will take over both bits after the split.

Sir Fred made his name at Royal Bank after its hostile takeover of NatWest, another British bank in 2000.

Meanwhile, RBS is building its B2B brand with institutional clients on Wall Street.

The core businesses of RBS are really good businesses. . . and they will provide the wherewithal to pay back the taxpayers.

"This is potentially a very big deal, " said Alan Ruskin, strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.

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At the same time, RBS is wise to find ways to offer rewards for footloose stars: its recovery will require all the talent at its disposal.

By limiting its risk (for a fee of £ 6. 5 billion to the Treasury), RBS will boost its core capital ratio from 7% to 9%.

RBS's slogan is "Make it happen. "

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Groups such as RBS opted instead to boost business through joint venture agreements spanning credit cards and wealth management.

Warburg Pincus and RBS declined to comment.

Whether that continues once China has gleaned all it can from RBS remains to be seen.

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BoC has 118m retail clients and RBS plans to target the 50, 000 it has identified as high net worth individuals.

They argued the shareholding in China's second-largest bank was part of RBS's long-term approach to building a presence in the region.

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RBS has lent roughly $1 billion to Dubai World, another person said.

According to RBS, the average manufacturing wage of Chinese workers has increased tenfold in the past two decades.

This made it easier to agree the deal but also meant that RBS was left with ABN Amro's troubled investment banking division.

At the end of last year, RBS had the largest assets of any British bank, at 166 per cent of GDP.

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The risk is that RBS has jeopardised more than the time value of money.

Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK lender, has raised about $2. 4bn by offloading its stake in Bank of China.

Taking Citigroup, RBS, Commerzbank and HSBC together, bad-bank assets have fallen from $1. 6 trillion in early 2009 to almost $1 trillion.

RBS joins a growing list of foreign banks forming securities JVs in China, including Credit Suisse.

RBS has since halved its Greek exposure, so that could be 100 basis points less by now.

RBS is forecasting that platinum could reach $1, 500 by the first quarter of 2010 and expects palladium to average $350 next year.

It is also about double the discount given by Royal Bank of Scotland when it sold its $2. 3bn stake in Bank of China in January.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) spent more than $100m to comply with Basel 2.

As part of a big push in commodities, it spent $1. 7 billion on RBS Sempra.

The assets are expected to fetch about $1bn-$1. 5bn for the stricken UK lender.

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RBS will stay in the government's insurance scheme, but fewer assets will be covered and it will bear a bigger share of the first loss.

For RBS the benefits of not placing more shares with the government are marginal: it is already 70% state-owned.

Mr Pell signalled RBS could keep the BoC stake for many years.

RBS hired investment bank Barclays Capital to search for someone to buy the team.

In addition, the government is considering easing the terms under which it took stakes in RBS, HBOS and Lloyds.

RBS is useless for alias.

'You look at monetary and fiscal policy and it's very hard to find a powerful lever that somebody can pull, ' said Mr. Richards of RBS.

In the end, 94. 5 per cent of RBS shareholders voted in favour of the deal.

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In order to benefit from this insurance, however, RBS must give up a lot.

In return, RBS is expected to issue billions of pounds in equity to the government and make commitments to increase lending.

RBS economist Lueth said his calculations imply that oil and food prices will be 25% higher on average in 2011 than in 2010.

Buyers know that RBS is a distressed seller and they might seek to cherry-pick favoured countries.

Barclays late last year nabbed a senior bunch of former RBS bankers, including RBS Asia mergers-and-acquisitions head Jason Rynbeck.

According to Royal Bank of Scotland, around 60 per cent of fixed asset investment in China is financed by self-raised funds.

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RBS became the leading foreign shareholder in the Chinese lender after acquiring a 4. 3 per cent stake in 2005.

RBS analyst David Ng said the government's temporary plan will 'send a message against hot money flooding Hong Kong in the immediate term. '

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RBS recently lowered its 2010 growth forecast for Thailand to 5. 8% from 6. 8%.

The key, says Ben Simpfendorfer at RBS in Hong Kong, is the crisis in Europe, China's biggest export market.

At around $60bn, it was also nearly half last year's quarterly average of $100bn, according to Royal Bank of Scotland.

At RBS, the drive has been to improve relationships between the lawyers and the business.

In contrast, RBS has 300 people at its trading operation in Hong Kong.

Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire who invested in BoC alongside RBS, also sold out yesterday.

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