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CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling was in Luxembourg for a meeting of European finance ministers when he was called out of the room: the chairman of RBS was on the phone and needed to speak to him. Urgently. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AFTER spending the best part of a decade on state-sponsored life-support, Royal Bank of Scotland is starting to show some signs of life. A loss-making basket case for much of the past nine years, the bank looks set to return to making consistent profits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROYAL Bank of Scotland 'fat cats' who were criticised for their role in one of the most shocking episodes in RBS history are now being paid lucrative bonuses to investigate what went wrong. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE very idea of a wellestablished bank actively training staff members to forge customer signatures ought to be preposterous. Even by the standards of RBS - which 'went rogue' under Fred Goodwin and wrought destruction on small firms it should have been helping - surely such blatant and systematic fraud ought to have been a step too far? Yet today's claims by whistleblowers seem to show just how poisoned the once-great bank had become after its former regime bred a culture of impunity that infected most aspects of its business. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TO many of Royal Bank of Scotland's customers and staff, and to taxpayers who saved it from oblivion nine years ago, it seems like another slap in the face. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PROPERTY developer says he has been to hell and back at the hands of Royal Bank of Scotland's Global Restructuring Group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TO the Royal Bank of Scotland's employees, and indeed to many other inhabitants of these islands, it seems the ultimate betrayal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AUTHOR OF BEST-SELLING BOOK SHREDDED: INSIDE RBS, THE BANK THAT BROKE BRITAIN RBS' decision to scrap the three-letter acronym it has used for 11 years and seek to return to its roots by readopting the Royal Bank of Scotland title will get the nation thinking. Is this institution, once cherished by so many Scots, really making a return to its roots? Or is this just another cynical marketing ploy? Does the £1 billion rebrand mean the bank has - finally - learnt some lessons from its collapse six years ago? Or is this just the equivalent of lipstick on a pig? Founded in 1727, the Royal Bank of Scotland was a creature of the Scottish establishment. It invented the overdraft (or 'cash credit' as it was known), enabling 18th Century Scottish merchants to punch above their weight, and underpinned Scotland's economic renaissance and industrial revolution. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Bank of Scotland and the older Bank of Scotland were seen as positive forces for good - described by free-market economist Adam Smith as 'a great benefit to trade'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SCOTLAND'S banks are sitting on hundreds of millions of pounds worth of hidden toxic debt from property loans that are in default. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]