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Britain cites role in RBS failure

Loose controls, along with poor management, hurt bank, officials say

By Julia Werdigier
New York Times / December 13, 2011
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Britain’s financial regulator said yesterday that it was partly to blame for the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland, and it proposed new preventive measures, including holding bank executives more accountable for bad decisions. The proposals are part of a report by the Financial Services Authority into the failure of RBS, the large British lender that was bailed out by the government in 2008 and remains under government control.

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