City Republic: Barclays bites back at the critics
26 Jan 2009 | by Stephen Foster
On Monday Royal Bank of Scotland, that ornament of the Edinburgh establishment, announced it had lost 8bn in 2008 and was writing down a further 20bn on its acquisition of ABN Amro. RBS' rival suitor for ABN Amro had been Barclays, a bank with similar ambitions of world domination. Which had led ...



