RBS headache unrelenting in six year hangover

Royal Bank of Scotland reported a pre-tax loss of £8.2bn for the full-year 2013 on Thursday, its sixth consecutive year of losses since it was rescued in 2008 and a result that chief executive Ross McEwan called “sobering”. The already slimmed down investment bank’s profits were down by more than half, but bankers there are no closer to knowing how many more jobs will go as RBS reduces its seven operating divisions down to three.