Bankers or diplomats: how can RBS avoid an ambassadorial role?

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Bankers or diplomats: how can RBS avoid an ambassadorial role?

Bankers across Europe, and particularly in the UK, have a new dilemma to ponder. Government intervention in the global financial crisis might have been necessary — but just how much will banks have to radically change their business as a result? One big question this week is how much a UK government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland will have to re-evaluate its lending policy.

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