{"id":1594,"date":"2016-04-30T01:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2016-04-29T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:13:20","slug":"the-royal-bank-of-scotland-q1-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Bank of Scotland Q1 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Friday 29th April, The Royal Bank of Scotland, announced its Q1 2016 results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/~\/media\/Files\/R\/RBS-IR\/results-center\/q1-results-2016-slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/~\/media\/Files\/R\/RBS-IR\/results-center\/q1-results-2016-slides.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A loss of <strong>\u00a3968m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>70% owned by the UK Tax Payer, some interesting figures are buried in the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a3<strong>4.2bn<\/strong> pension payment made to the main scheme. So that only can be a good thing for the employees and pensioners of RBS.<\/p>\n<p>Customer deposits are at <strong>\u00a3352 billion.<\/strong><br \/>\nNet loans &amp; advances to customers are at <strong>\u00a3317 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus more deposits than outstanding loans.<\/p>\n<p>Slide 19 is the interesting one, of how is shows how RBS is reducing its exposure to certain sectors:-<br \/>\n<em><strong>Oil &amp; Gas<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Mining and Minerals<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shipping<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Emerging Markets<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So one can detect, that the bank fears that these sectors are in contraction, and thus reducing loans to these sectors is a mechanism to reduce the risk at RBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Friday 29th April, The Royal Bank of Scotland, announced its Q1 2016 results. http:\/\/investors.rbs.com\/~\/media\/Files\/R\/RBS-IR\/results-center\/q1-results-2016-slides.pdf A loss of \u00a3968m. 70% owned by the UK Tax Payer, some interesting figures are buried in the results. \u00a34.2bn pension payment made to the main scheme. So that only can be a good thing for the employees and pensioners [&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-1594","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\/1594","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=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}