Case Study Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
Case Study Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
Case Study Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
Subject: FMB
Course: PGCBM 17
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INTRODUCTION
This document pertains to be take home assignment for Financial
markets and Banking (FMB). As per assignment requirements, students
suppose to study, analyze and document the financial performance of
particular bank. In this regard, I have been given Royal Bank of
Scotland (RBS) for the purpose.
Assignment Methodology:
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Coutts & Co. In the United States, it owns Citizens Financial Group,
the 8th largest bank in the country. From 2004 to 2009 it was the
second largest shareholder in the Bank of China, itself the world's fifth
largest bank by market capitalisation in February 2008.[8] Insurance
companies include Churchill Insurance, Direct Line, Privilege, and NIG.
The group issues banknotes in Scotland and Northern Ireland and, as of
2008, Royal Bank of Scotland is the only bank in the UK still to print a
£1 note.
Internationalization
The first international office of the bank was opened in New York in
1960. Subsequent international banks were opened in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Houston and Hong Kong. In 1988 the bank acquired Citizens
Financial Group, a bank based in Rhode Island, United States. Since
then, Citizens has acquired several other American banks, and in 2004
acquired Charter One Bank to become the 8th largest bank in the
United States.
The Royal Bank also opened offices in Europe and now has subsidiaries
in: Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain,
Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. In the Asia-Pacific region, the bank has offices in:
Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Singapore.
Acquisitions
On 11 February 2000, the Royal Bank of Scotland won the take over of
National Westminster Bank (Natwest). This deal has made RBS the
second largest banking group in the UK after HSBC Holdings. NatWest
and the Royal Bank of Scotland became subsidiaries of the holding
company; the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. NatWest as a distinct
banking brand was retained, although many back office functions of
the bank were merged with the Royal Bank's leading to over 18,000
job losses throughout the UK.
In August 2005, the bank expanded into China, acquiring a 10% stake
in the Bank of China for £1.7 billion [14].
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The bank was the 2005 recipient of the Wharton Infosys Business
Transformation Award, an award given to enterprises and individuals
who use information technology in a society-transforming way.
The Group was part of a consortium with Belgian bank Fortis and
Spanish bank Banco Santander that acquired Dutch Bank ABN AMRO a
on 10 October 2007. Rivals speculated that RBS had overpaid for the
Dutch bank[15] although the bank pointed out that of the £49bn paid for
ABN AMRO, RBS's share was only £10bn (equivalent to £167
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Financial Performance
Based on data from http://www.investors.rbs.com, following financial
summary snap shot obtained:
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Capital- 6%
Assets 5% 5% 5% 3%
Ratio
Tier 1
Capital 7.61% 7.50% 7.28% 10.04% 14.13%
Ratio
Basel Risk
Weighted
11.69% 11.73% 11.16% 14.11% 16.13%
Capital
Ratio
Net Interest
1.28% 1.22% 0.64% 0.78% 0.97%
Margin
Return of
15% 14% 8% -43% -2%
Equity
Return on
0.72% 0.75% 0.41% -1.43% -0.14%
Asset
Notes:
1) Only Statutory balance sheet figures were taken.
4) 2008 data are on a Basel II basis; data for 2007 are on a Basel I
basis.
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18.00%
16.00%
14.00%
12.00%
10.00%
8.00%
Observation
1)6.00%
Tier-1 Capital ratio rose from 7% to 14% during 2005 to 2009.
This ratio gives us the proportion of equity held against the
amount of risk weighted assets. It means that Tier-1 capital has
increased and Risk weighted assets are decreasing
4.00%
proportionally.
2) Basel Risk weighted capital ratio (total Capital ratio, inclusive for
Tier-2 and Tier-3 Capital) has increased from 11.6% to 16.1%.
2.00%
3) Net Interest margin has decrease from 1.27% to 0.97% (Lowest
was at 0.76% (2007). This ratio gives us the extent of gross
0.00%
profits earned on the traditional activity of investing in interest
bearing assets. Traditionally, a lower/declining
2005 2006 value
2007of this ratio 2008
has been considered as an indicator of greater efficiency in the
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banking sector. However, a low/declining value of this ratio is
-4.00%
Year
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Pro forma
Underlying profit (1)
£80 million
Loss attributable to
£7.9 billion
ordinary shareholders (2)
Total income (3) £26.9 billion
Impairment losses (4) £7.0 billion
Credit market losses (5) £7.8 billion
Write-down of
goodwill and
£16.2 billion
other intangible
assets (6)
Total capital ratio 14.20%
Core Tier 1 capital ratio
(7) 7.00%
Tier 1 capital ratio 9.90%
Basic loss per ordinary
(61.0p)
share (8)
Statutory
Loss before tax £40.7 billion
Loss attributable to
£24.1 billion
ordinary shareholders
Basic loss per ordinary
(145.7p)
share
Core Tier 1 capital ratio 6.80%
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Ref. : Moneycenral.msn.com
But then came ABN Amro. Just as the credit markets were freezing
over, consortium of RBS, Fortis and Santander were ramping up their
bidding war with rival suitor Barclays. In desire to win, it now looks as if
RBS went too far, creating an internally-funded cash offer that
Barclays' share bid did not stand a chance of beating but that left RBS
dangerously leveraged. The RBS consortium bid €71 billion, as
opposed to Barclays’s €66 billion – and this notwithstanding the fact
that ABN had sold off its American subsidiary LaSalle, which was one of
RBS’s reasons for being interested in the deal in the first place. The
ABN deal totally stretched a balance sheet that was already stretched.
ABN deal has pushed RBS over the edge and into the abyss. After
repeated protestations of his bank's financial health, RBS has surprised
shareholders in April with one of the biggest rights issues in British
corporate history, aimed at raising more than £12bn to shore-up a
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After the billions lost over the US subprime market and leveraged
loans, investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank,
Barclays, UBS and RBS face losses on credit default swaps (CDS) –
contracts that allow an investor to be repaid if a company loan or a
bond defaults.
ABN was not the only problem for RBS. Alongside the eight-year
acquisition spree, RBS also massively expanded its investment banking
business, building on both the City-leading conventional products
inherited with NatWest and also the small Greenwich Capital operation
concentrating on the then-novel field of mortgage-backed securities in
the US. It was the combination of acquisition and the aggressive push
into the area of investment banking, many of which subsequently
soured, that caused the problem.
RBS said a review of past acquisitions, most notably its share of Dutch
bank ABN Amro, would result in a non-cash hit of £15bn-£20bn. It
also expects core losses of between £7bn and £8bn as a result of
credit and market conditions in the year 2008’ss fourth quarter
These rapid and unplanned acquistions have made RBS one the top 10
banks of the world but also increased the riskiness of the business.
Derivatives
Where on the balance sheet are all these bad debt and toxic assets are
reflecting ? The losses were so huge that one shouldn’t have to look for
them in this way – in fact it’s bizarre to be doing so, minutely parsing
the accounts for evidence of a gigantic disaster. While examining the
balance sheet, one can see that derivatives are increasing rapidly (as
shown in Chart)
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Derivatives
1,200,000
1,000,000
800,000
YEAR 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009
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SUMMARY
A balance sheet is divided into assets and liabilities. Assets are things
which belong to you, liabilities are things which belong to other people.
A bank balance sheets list customer deposits as liabilities and
customer’s borrowed loan as assets. High levels of deposits mean high
levels of liabilities; and high levels of liabilities oblige a bank to have
high levels of assets. Since banks are mainly in the business of lending
money, high levels of assets mean high levels of loans. That means
that a bank’s main assets are other people’s debts. This is another
distinctive feature of bank balance sheets, the fact that its principal
assets are other people’s debts to it. Thus any bank should be very
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much careful while dealing with liquidity, it has since that liquidity is
belongs to someone else.
RBS, in it’s hunger for expansion has forgotten this basic fact and as a
result ended by being a defaulter.
Reference:
1) www.rbs.com
2) www.investorrbs.com
3) It’s Finished by John Lanchester
4) The rise and fall of 'Fred the Shred' by Sarah Arnott
5) The Rise and Fall of RBS: How Fred Goodwin Went from Hero to
Zero by Chris Sinner
6) www.moneycentral.msn.com
7) Financial Markets & Banking, compiled by Prof.Santosh Sangem
Annexure 1
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
Statutory Statutory
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Assets £m Assets £m Assets £m Assets £m £m
Cash and Cash and Cash and Cash and
balances at 52,261 balances at 12,400 balances at 17,866 balances at 6,121 4,759
central banks central banks central banks central banks
Net loans and Loans and
Treasury and Treasury and
advances to 56,656 advances to 138,197 18,229 5,491 5,538
other eligible bills other eligible bills
banks banks
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Property, plant
19,397
and equipment
Deferred
7,039
taxation
Prepayments,
accrued income
20,985
and other
assets
Assets of
18,542
disposal groups
1,696,48 2,401,65 1,900,51
Total assets Total assets Total assets Total assets 871,432 776,827
6 2 9
Liabilities
Deposits by Deposits by Deposits by
Liabilities 258,044 312,633 132,143 110,407
banks banks banks
Customer Customer Customer
Bank deposits 104,138 639,512 682,365 384,222 342,867
accounts accounts accounts
Repurchase
agreements Debt securities in Debt securities in Debt securities in
38,006 300,289 273,615 85,963 90,420
and stock issue issue issue
lending
Settlement Settlement Settlement
Deposits by
142,144 balances and 54,277 balances and 91,021 balances and 49,476 43,988
banks
short positions short positions short positions
Customers
545,849 Derivatives 971,364 Derivatives 332,060 Derivatives 118,112 96,438
deposits
Repurchase Accruals, Accruals, Accruals,
agreements deferred income deferred income deferred income
68,353 31,482 34,024 15,660 14,247
and stock and other and other and other
lending liabilities liabilities liabilities
Customer Retirement Retirement Retirement
614,202 2,032 496 1,992 3,735
accounts benefit liabilities benefit liabilities benefit liabilities
Debt securities 267,568 Deferred tax 4,165 Deferred taxation 5,510 Deferred taxation 3,264 1,695
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in issue
Settlement
Insurance Insurance Insurance
balances and 50,876 9,976 10,162 7,456 7,212
liabilities liabilities liabilities
short positions
Subordinated Subordinated Subordinated
Derivatives 424,141 49,154 37,979 27,654 28,274
liabilities liabilities liabilities
Accruals,
deferred Liabilities of Liabilities of
30,327 859 29,228
income and disposal groups disposal groups
other liabilities
Retirement 2,321,15 1,809,09
2,963 Total liabilities Total liabilities Total liabilities 825,942 739,283
benefit liabilities 4 3
Deferred
2,811 Equity
taxation
Insurance
10,281 Minority interests 21,619 Minority interests 38,388 Minority interests 5,263 2,109
liabilities
Subordinated Shareholders’
37,652 Equity owners 58,879 Equity owners 53,038
liabilities equity
Liabilities of Called up share
18,890 815 826
disposal groups capital
1,601,85
Total liabilities Reserves 39,412 34,609
5
Minority
16,895
interests
Owners' equity 77,736
Total equity 94,631 Total equity 80,498 Total equity 91,426 Total equity 45,490 37,544
Total liabilities 1,696,48 Total liabilities 2,401,65 Total liabilities 1,900,51 Total liabilities
871,432 776,827
and equity 6 and equity 2 and equity 9 and equity
Annexure 2
INCOME STATEMENT
Not 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
e £m £m £m £m £m
49,52 32,25 24,68 21,33 16,6
Interest receivable
2 2 8 1 32
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Interest payable 30,84 20,18 14,09 11,41 7,56
7 3 2 3 1
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9,07
18,67 12,06 10,59
Net interest income 1 9,918 1
5 9 6
6,47
Fees and commissions receivable 2 9,831 8,278 7,116 6,750
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Fees and commissions payable 2 -2,386 1,92
2,193 1,922 1,841
6
1,98
(Loss)/income from trading activities 2 -8,477 1,292 2,675 2,343
8
5,64
Insurance net premium income 24 6,326 6,087 5,973 5,779
7
10,24 5,18
Staff costs 7,338 6,723 5,992
1 8
1,17
Premises and equipment 2,593 1,703 1,421 1,313
7
2,32
Other administrative expenses 5,464 2,969 2,658 2,816
3
1,67
Depreciation and amortisation 3,154 1,932 1,678 1,825
4
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13,0
29
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(Loss)/profit before other operating 16,42 15,52 13,95
28,16
charges and impairment 4 2 6
5
4,26
Insurance net claims 24 4,430 4,624 4,458 4,313
0
1,48
Impairment 12 8,072 1,968 1,878 1,707
5
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7,28
Operating (loss)/profit before tax 40,66 9,832 9,186 7,936
4
7
1,99
Tax 6 -2,323 2,044 2,689 2,378
5
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(Loss)/profit from continuing 5,28
38,34 7,788 6,497 5,558
operations 9
4
Profit/(loss) from discontinued
20 3,971 -76 —
operations, net of tax
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5,28
(Loss)/profit for the year 34,37 7,712 6,497 5,558
9
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Minority interests 10,83 163 104 57 177
2
Other owners 7 596 246 191 109 256
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4,85
Ordinary shareholders 24,13 7,303 6,202 5,392
6
7
Per 25p ordinary share:
(145.7 169.4 157.
Basic earnings 10 p) 64.0p 54.4p p 4p
(145.7 168.3 155.
Diluted earnings 10 p) 63.4p 53.9p p 9p
52.5
Dividends 8 19.3p 27.0p 21.6p 60.6p p
KEY FINANCIALS
Pro forma Statutory
for the year ended 2008 2007 2008 2007 2006 2005
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31 December £m £m £m £m £m £m
Total income (1) 26,875 33,564 25,868 30,366 28,002 25,569
(Loss)/profit
-8,127 8,962 -40,667 9,832 9,186 7,936
before tax (3)
(Loss)/profit
attributable to
-24,051 6,823 -24,137 7,303 6,202 5,392
ordinary
shareholders
Cost:income ratio
(4) 59.20% 49.50% 208.90% 45.90% 42.10% 42.40%
Basic
(loss)/earnings per (61.0p) 40.8p (145.7p) 64.0p 194.7 169.4
share (pence) (5)
Adjusted
(loss)/earnings per (5.2p) 44.5p — — 200 175.9
share (pence) (5, 6)
at 31 December
• Pro forma total income excludes credit market write-downs and one-off items and share
of shared assets. In the consolidated income statement, these items are included in total
income.-2
• Underlying profit represents pro forma profit before tax, credit market write-
downs and one-off items impairment losses on reclassified assets, purchased
intangibles amortisation, write-down of goodwill and other intangible assets,
integration costs, restructuring costs and share of shared assets. -3
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• Prior year per share data have been restated to reflect the rights issue in June
2008 and the capitalisation issue in September 2008.
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• 2008 data are on a Basel II basis; data for 2007 are on a Basel I basis.
Annexure 3
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