The British government might not have lost nearly as much on its stake in the bank had circumstances been different.

NatWest: Key dates in the bank’s history from rescue to privatisation - Here’s a timeline with key dates from the bailout of ...

LONDON – Stephen Hester reported his last set of results for bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland Friday as he prepares to hand over the reins to New Zealander Ross McEwan. The state-controlled ...

Stephen Hester has come a long way since his first job - packing Polos at the Rowntree's sweet factory in York. Now the 48-year-old stands to make a mint running a troubled bank with a huge hole ...

First his annual bonus is cut to just under £1million. Now it seems that Stephen Hester’s still far from insignificant fortune has taken another hit. The beleaguered Royal Bank of Scotland boss ...

Stephen Hester is to step down as chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland at the end of the year as the UK government pushes for another overhaul of the part-nationalised group and prepares the ...

But while the taxpayer-owned bank continues to record hefty losses, Stephen Hester’s personal spending on his lavish 350-acre estate continues unabated. And yesterday some of those taxpayers who ...

Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, who will be leaving the bank at the end of this year after leading it through a restructuring over the past five years while under ...

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For Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Executive Stephen Hester, the biggest turnaround in corporate history is not over. Hester, who has shrunk RBS by 700 billion pounds ($1.1 trillion) since he began ...

He could hardly have claimed it was The World's Best Job. Stephen Hester inherited RBS when it was on its knees following the disastrous takeover of ABN Amro, when senior management had been ...