{"id":1050,"date":"2015-02-23T07:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2015-02-23T07:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:18:40","slug":"the-rbs-balance-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"The RBS Balance Sheet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RBS is The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, as well as through a number of other well-known brands including Citizens, Charter One, Ulster Bank and Coutts.<\/p>\n<p>We are only a few months away from The Royal Bank of Scotland publishing the 2014 annual report.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"RBS Annual Report\" href=\"http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/2013-at-a-glance\/download-centre.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/2013-at-a-glance\/download-centre.aspx<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Here was can see the 2013 annual report. Some salient facts are found there:<\/p>\n<p>Page 174.<\/p>\n<p>Cash and balances at central banks \u00a382,659 million. (<strong>yes \u00a382 Billion<\/strong>)<br \/>\nLoans and advances to customers <strong>\u00a3440,722 million<\/strong><br \/>\nDerivatives <strong>\u00a3288,039 million<\/strong><br \/>\nTotal assets: \u00a31,027,878 million (yes that <strong>is over \u00a31 trillion, about 67% of UK annual GDP<\/strong>)<br \/>\nCustomer deposits \u00a3414,396million \u00a0(<strong>yes \u00a3414 Billion <\/strong>of customer cash in accounts)<\/p>\n<p>The size of the bank&#8217;s balance sheet is vast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBS is The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, as well as through a number of other well-known brands including Citizens, Charter One, Ulster Bank and Coutts. We are only a few months away from The Royal Bank of Scotland publishing the 2014 annual report. [http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/2013-at-a-glance\/download-centre.aspx] Here was can see the 2013 annual report. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}