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HOW BAD WERE DELOITTE'S RBS AUDITS? Deloitte and the demise of RBS. By Ian Fraser. Published: Sunday Herald. Date: December 18th, 2011 (minor edits March 31st, 2013) One of Fred Goodwin’s first acts on being appointed RBS’s chief executive on March 6, 2000 was to sack PWC as auditors and to wheel in his ‘alma mater’, Deloitte & Touche. Ex-insiders suggest this was because Goodwin believed that Deloitte – where he cut IS RBS DECISION TO CLOSE GRG AN ATTEMPT TO BURY THE As McEwan seeks to simplify the bank and retrench it back to the UK market – a process which he hopes will see the IPO of the bank’s American arm Citizens Financial – RBS last Monday also confirmed it wants to offload the international part of its Coutts & Co, while retaining private banking and wealth management operations in the UK including Edinburgh based Adam & Company. THE RECKLESSNESS OF CUMMINGS The recklessness of Cummings. July 13th, 2009. Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Justin Urquhart-Stewart, director of Seven Investment Management, has described HBOS as being “pregnant with the spawn of Satan” by the time Lloyds TSB saved it from extinction last September. I HUBRIS OF FRED SHRED GOODWIN The FactSheet compiled by RBS’s senior communications executive and deputy chief economist Andrew Wilson in February 2007 pleased his master, the bank’s chief executive, Fred Goodwin, as it put RBS’s financial success in context. But it was also incredibly bombastic and dangerously hubristic. Royal Bank of Scotland issued an extraordinary BBC SOUGHT TO SUPPRESS RESEARCH INTO ITS BIAS Aunty became vindictive and apparently sought to bury not just the research itself but also the career of its author (Professor Robertson explains what happened in this interview he gave to OpenDemocracy ). Robertson’s research revealed that the BBC was using a range of techniques to distort the debate about Scottish independence. CHARLES FERGUSON ON THE SECURITIZATION FOOD CHAIN Charles Ferguson, director of the seminal movie about the global financial crisis, Inside Job, has warned that we should continue to feel a profound sense of unease about banks and financial institutions — and by extension about all our economic and political futures. In a lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on November 9th, 2010 (see above), Ferguson unpicked the DIRECTOR’S DEAL SENDS URY SALE INTO THE ROUGH The estate agent Savills has had to scrap plans to sell the Ury estate near Stonehaven after it emerged the former owner, FM Developments, had granted “an agricultural tenancy” and a “right to buy” to one of their own directors, John Forbes, a farmer in the northeast. The move is an acute embarrassment for the upmarket agency, which had BACKROOM BOY FISHER MOVES UP FRONT By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: December 20th, 2009 Profile of the week: Mark Fisher, integration director at Lloyds Banking Group Some are lucky to survive disasters, others seem to thrive on them. The year 2009 saw the rise and rise of Mark Fisher, financial plumber and one-time hatchet man to Sir Fred Goodwin. YOUNG TURKS IN £4M BUYOUT Young Turks in £4m buyout. By Ian Fraser. Sunday Herald. June 27th, 1999. THE wee sma’ hours of Friday morning spelled the end of an era for Rutherford Manson Dowds, the accountancy, investment advisory and corporate finance practice. The firm, a stellar player in the Scottish business firmament, crashed to earth when, after protracted THE HBOS SCANDAL THAT JUST WILL NOT GO AWAY Officers from the force’s economic crime unit swooped on addresses in Berkshire, Warwickshire and Cheshire before 8am last Wednesday, September 29th, 2010, arresting three individuals on suspicion of corruption, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. The individuals — ex-Bank of Scotland Corporate director of mid-markethigh-risk
HOW BAD WERE DELOITTE'S RBS AUDITS? Deloitte and the demise of RBS. By Ian Fraser. Published: Sunday Herald. Date: December 18th, 2011 (minor edits March 31st, 2013) One of Fred Goodwin’s first acts on being appointed RBS’s chief executive on March 6, 2000 was to sack PWC as auditors and to wheel in his ‘alma mater’, Deloitte & Touche. Ex-insiders suggest this was because Goodwin believed that Deloitte – where he cut IS RBS DECISION TO CLOSE GRG AN ATTEMPT TO BURY THE As McEwan seeks to simplify the bank and retrench it back to the UK market – a process which he hopes will see the IPO of the bank’s American arm Citizens Financial – RBS last Monday also confirmed it wants to offload the international part of its Coutts & Co, while retaining private banking and wealth management operations in the UK including Edinburgh based Adam & Company.HOME - IAN FRASER
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HOW SCOTTISH FIRMS STRUCK GOLD IN BEIJING How Scottish firms struck gold in Beijing. By Ian Fraser. The Sunday Times. August 10th, 2008. Big Olympics contracts have lifted RMJM and Aggreko. As four billion viewers worldwide tuned into the Beijing Olympics’ opening ceremony last Friday, most were unaware that two Scottish companies have ignored any human rights concerns to play a significant role in making the extravaganza possible. WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG FOR CLYDESDALE AND Where did it all go wrong for Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks? February 14th, 2012. The allegations of “a black hole”, “reckless commercial property lending in 2005-07”, “dodgy accounting” etc at National Australia Bank’s UK subsidiaries Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank (which I’ve now heard from at least four reliable and independent senior banking sources) just won’t seem THE WORST BANK IN THE WORLD? HBOS'S CALAMITOUS SEVEN YEAR The bank, which is undertaking a £750m share buyback, paid a final dividend of 24.35p, taking the full-year pay-out to 36.10p, up 10%. May 2006: Andy Hornby, COO and head of retail banking, discreetly enters talks about a putative merger between HBOS and Lloyds TSB with the latter bank’s chairman Sir Victor Blank. GAVIN MASTERTON AND THE RIDDLE OF CHARLOTTE 18 September 17th, 2013 (updated with minor edits September 24th, 2013) Charlotte Eighteen, a shadowy company based in the tax secrecy jurisdiction of the British Virgin Islands, remains the subject of intense interest among Scottish football fans. Allegedly the holding company for the business assets of Gavin Masterton, the former treasurer and managing director of the EADS CHIEF EXECUTIVE ROBIN SOUTHWELL DRAWN INTO A HORNET'S December 20th, 2013 In June and August 2010 I reported on the business relationship between the EADS (UK) chief executive Robin Southwell (pictured right) and David Mills — a “business turnaround” specialist and former NatWest banker who was charged with conspiracy to corrupt, fraudulent trading and money laundering on 8 January 2013. The charges followed* HOME
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My book_ __Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain_,
published in June 2014, has been described as the “definitiveaccount
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of the rise and fall of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It was long-listed for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of theYear 2014
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recent projects have included researching and helping to produce eight documentary programs for the BBC, including _RBS: Inside The Bank That Ran Out of Money, _which
was shortlisted for a BAFTA award. I’m available for freelance assignments including research, writing, commissioning and editing. Sectors covered include banking, financial markets, economics, energy and small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Strengths include excellent contacts in business and finance and the ability to make complex subjects accessible to a generalaudience.
Journalism, blogging, broadcasting and book-writing are my main focus, but I can also provide services including web content creation, ghost-writing and media training . I have also put together detailed reports for lawyers in civil and criminal court cases. In recent years, I have been interviewed by broadcastersincluding BBC News
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