Investment banking helps RBS reduce losses to £3.6bn

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Investment banking helps RBS reduce losses to £3.6bn

Sharply increased profits at Royal Bank of Scotland’s global banking and markets (GBM) division helped the state owned bank to cut its annual loss for 2009 to £3.6bn, slightly ahead of expectations and much lower than the £24.3bn hit it took in 2008.

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