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  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    UK financial regulation
    NatWest’s Howard Davies urges BoE to take in ‘national interests’ over bank capital

    Chair of state-backed lender points to US backlash over new global rules

    Sir Howard Davies
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    LexNatWest Group
    NatWest/Nigel Farage: state exit would lower political sensitivity Premium content

    The state shareholding is fraught with conflicts of interest, as the Farage row shows

    NatWest logo
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    NatWest Group
    NatWest fails to stem Farage pressure as shareholders turn against board

    Regulators announce probes with top investor saying chair was ‘clearly not in charge’ after trying to retain CEO Alison Rose

    Howard Davies
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    NatWest Group
    How Nigel Farage forced out NatWest chief

    Alison Rose has become the first high-profile business casualty of UK’s increasingly divisive politics

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    NatWest Group
    NatWest chair Howard Davies to step down next year

    Long-serving leader of bank’s board says he will depart by July 2024

    Pedestrian walks past a branch of Natwest bank
  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    UK Government
    Levelling up needs Conservatives to go back to the future

    The UK government should stop half measures and recreate an Audit Commission that can deliver reliable data on local authorities

    Hoardings outside Wolverhampton train station advertise Invest in Wolverhampton
  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Monday, 26 July, 2021
    ReviewBusiness books
    A cautionary Vegas casino tale of corporate gamblers

    What happens when debt becomes an over-geared disaster — and there are no good guys

    Gamblers sit at terminals surrounded by slot machines
  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    City InsiderMatthew Vincent
    Black is white for Anglo Irish Bank’s long-suffering shareholders

    PwC’s finest scientific minds attempt to prove banks can exist in two states at once

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    City InsiderPatrick Jenkins
    RBS’s Howard Davies eats humble — and pecan — pie

    Morgan Stanley’s Thanksgiving bash sees knights-a-kneeling amid lords-a-lunching

    Howard Davies, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The possibility of a trade war is a worry, Davies said. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
    City InsiderPatrick Jenkins
    A comedy turn at the new RBS HQ

    Chairman Howard Davies gave the press a sharp-witted welcome to 250 Bishopsgate

    Howard Davies, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland NV (RBS), poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. RBS charging negative rates on collateral "puts us in line with a lot of banks in the big trading areas," Davies said in the interview. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    UK banks
    RBS chairman defends losses on government share sale

    UK taxpayers ‘very unlikely’ to recoup investment in bank says Howard Davies

    Pedestrians pass a branch of a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bank branch in central London on July 25, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVASDANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
    Banks
    RBS chair hits back against allegations of misleading UK parliament
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2017
    European companies
    Post-Brexit financial regulation cannot be left to negotiators

    A group of Wise People is needed to find a solution to the City of London’s problem

    A pensioner enjoys the view of the River Thames in the City of London on 28 November 2016. Picture credit: Tolga Akmen
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2017
    Special ReportResponsible Business
    Why doing the right thing pays off in turbulent times

    For its own good, business must ensure Brexit and political chaos do not stop it aiming high

    illustration by Matt Kenyon
  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Wild Honey, Hampstead Theatre, London — ‘Patchy’

    A fine cast can’t quite tame Chekhov’s ungovernable earliest drama

    Geoffrey Streatfeild as Platonov and Sophie Rundle as Sofya in 'Wild Honey'
  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2016
    Heathrow expansion
    A history of UK airport expansion: runways, reports, reversals

    The Heathrow decision follows a long line of inquiries into how to expand capacity

    10th September 1946: A traffic clerk employed by the British Overseas Airways Corporation, (BOAC), leads passengers aboard a York aircraft bound for South Africa at Heathrow Airport. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 9 September, 2016
    Brexit
    The grandee plan

    How City bigwigs formed Brexit lobby

    Sir Howard Davies who is in charge of aviation policy.
  • Friday, 29 July, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Plough and the Stars, National Theatre (Lyttelton), London — review

    Sean O’Casey’s play journeys from easy indulgence to a climax of grief and shame

    Judith Roddy in 'The Plough and the Stars'. Photo: Johan Persson
  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2016
    UK economy
    London airports decision to be made in the autumn

    Commission had recommended new runway at Heathrow last July

    A British Airways aircraft, operated by British Airways Plc, prepares to take-off from the end of the north runway at London Heathrow Airport, in this aerial photograph taken over London, U.K., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Europe's largest hub at London Heathrow, which has been operating close to capacity since the start of the decade, and rival Gatwick have been short-listed for a new runway by the state-appointed Davies Commission, with a final recommendation due in coming weeks. Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2016
    Brexit
    ‘Brexit position not so bad,’ RBS chair Davies tells Osborne
  • Friday, 1 July, 2016
    Heathrow expansion
    Britain needs new Heathrow runway more than ever

    There are already signs of an inward investment slowdown this would offset, writes Howard Davies

    A British Airways aircraft, operated by British Airways Plc, prepares to take-off from the end of the north runway at London Heathrow Airport, in this aerial photograph taken over London, U.K., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Europe's largest hub at London Heathrow, which has been operating close to capacity since the start of the decade, and rival Gatwick have been short-listed for a new runway by the state-appointed Davies Commission, with a final recommendation due in coming weeks. Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2016
    UK banks
    RBS shareholders speak out against bonuses
  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2016
    European banks
    RBS: ‘Heaviest’ restructuring over by end of 2016
  • Monday, 29 February, 2016
    World
    RBS’s top brass scoop up almost £1m in shares
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