DIARY OF A TAKEOVER - THE STORY OF RBS AND NATWEST

The press has got hold of the internal memos relating to the pay and recruitment freeze and other cost cutting measures. At least it is...

The Sunday Times reports that NatWest is planning a management shake-up "to bolster Derek Wanless." We have too many middle layers of...

It's been a very strange week. There has been little in the way of real news or developments; everybody is waiting for the official BoS...

Royal Bank of Scotland told the Takeover Panel yesterday that they are "interested" in NatWest and are observing the situation. They are...

The note on cost saving measures is issued. The response from staff is a lot more dramatic than I would have expected. The most immediate...

On my way from Bank station to Lothbury on Sunday morning I run into Norman Blackwell, who joined NatWest a couple of years ago as Group...

This proves to be without a doubt one of the strangest weekends of my life. The word that keeps re-occurring, used by a number of us over...

I am now clear now about how to structure the Department, at least in the immediate future. “W”, one of my 3 immediate deputies and a...

I am invited to a meeting (planned some time ago) for the "top 200"senior managers in the Gibson Hall, our grade l listed Victorian...

A letter comes out from Derek Wanless, our Group Chief Executive, detailing the management changes around our acquisition of Legal...

I have planned a one-day conference for my Purchasing team for some time to follow up our main annual event in March. That was held at...

Home again, I'm still on leave, and Coral Reef in Bracknell is packed. It takes us twenty minutes of queuing to get up to the water...