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International Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition
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International Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

by Thomas Clarke
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
818 pages
28h 27m
English
Routledge
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CASE STUDY 2Royal Bank of Scotland

DOI: 10.4324/9781003181118-12

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was founded by Royal Charter in 1727, and as with many traditional financial institutions took a conservative, prudent path through the centuries. Until the heady days of the early 2000s presented a radically different strategic scenario buttressed by a dramatic change in prudential values. The RBS crisis saga is one of over-reaching ambition and excessive hubris from the CEO and his senior executives in a context where the financial institutions had become highly acquisitive with an appetite for risk that was almost insatiable. In rapid succession RBS took over a range of other financial institutions including Citizens Bank, Royal Insurance, ...

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