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UKFI (UK Financial Investments)

April 2017

  • Lloyds is joining other banks shutting branches, such as RBS and HSBC

    Lloyds to shrink hundreds of UK branches to two staff

    New ‘micro branches’ will not have counters, with customers using self-service machines and video links

September 2015

  • Investment banks have charged UKFI just a £1 fee for work on the government’s sell-off of shares in RBS and Lloyds.

    What's the catch? MPs warn UKFI over banks' £1 privatisation fees

  • A general view of the Royal Bank of Scotland logo outside its headquarters in the City of London

    Government delays revealing identities of RBS share buyers

April 2014

  • Martin Rowson

    Martin Rowson on the RBS bonus plan – cartoon

    Martin Rowson
  • Ross McEwan, CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland

    RBS bonus plan blocked by government

January 2014

  • Danny Alexander

    Danny Alexander scornful of RBS plans to pay bumper bonuses to senior staff

  • branch of HSBC Bank in St Helier, Jersey

    HSBC plans to give staff shares to avoid Brussels' new cap on bankers' bonuses

November 2013

  • Royal Bank of Scotland admitted earlier this month it was holding more capital.

    Royal Bank of Scotland faces further fines over sub-prime mortgage crisis

    UK Financial Investments outgoing chairman says RBS has been forced to hold more capital because of potential penalties

September 2013

  • George Osborne gave the order for the sale of 15% of the taxpayer's stake

    Lloyds boss told Osborne to press on with the sale – and he did

    With the bailed-out bank back in profit, the chancellor can even claim a £60m profit on the sale of 15% of the taxpayer's stake
  • Lloyds boss in line for bigger bonus as government makes £60m on share sale

    António Horta-Osório could be in line for more than £2.2m as chancellor claims part selloff is sign of improving economy
  • ukfi ceo appointed rbs lloyds banking group

    Son of former Bank of England governor appointed CEO of UKFI

    James Leigh-Pemberton, current UK head of Credit Suisse, will head UK Financial Investments

July 2013

  • RBS capital shortfall

    UKFI highlights improved prospects for Lloyds selloff

    UK Financial Investments says main variables are earning prospects in future and total price received for share sales

June 2013

  • George Osborne addresses the audience at Mansion H ouse

    Government takes another step towards selling stake in Lloyds and RBS

    UKFI asks bankers to tender for contracts on potential sale of taxpayer's £65bn share of bailed-out banks

April 2013

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    No wonder Jim O'Neil left UKFI: holding's not as much fun as selling

    Nils Pratley
  • RBS sign reflected in puddle

    Lloyds and RBS sell-off in question as Jim O'Neil quits as head of UKFI

November 2012

  • Northern Rock

    Taxpayers' £66bn in RBS and Lloyds at risk, say MPs

    Funds used to buy shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group may never be recovered

October 2012

  • RBS chief Stephen Hester

    RBS mulls sale of US bank Citizens

    Royal Bank of Scotland is also considering cutting size of investment bank, says UKFI chief executive Jim O'Neil

March 2012

  • A Royal Bank of Scotland branch in London

    Lib Dems and Labour oppose sale of state-owned RBS

    Discussions with sovereign wealth funds have taken place as part of attempts to sell off the 83% taxpayer stake in RBS
  • Men at RBS ATMs

    Business blog
    UKFI: RBS and Lloyds might have to be sold at a loss

    Treasury select committee extracted the assertion by the members of UK Financial Investments that shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds might need to be sold off at a loss
  • Northern Rock

    UK's bad bank turns good profits, but repossessions rise 10%

    UK Asset Resolution (UKAR), which is winding down the mortgage books of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, said profits more than doubled to £1.1bn
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