{"id":37464,"date":"2013-08-19T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37464"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:20:04","slug":"hedge-fund-linked-to-rbs-collapse-backs-bid-for-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/hedge-fund-linked-to-rbs-collapse-backs-bid-for-branches.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund linked to RBS collapse backs bid for branches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Telegraph &#8211; Toscafund, the $1.3bn (\u00a3830m) fund chaired by ex-RBS chairman Sir George Mathewson, has emerged as a backer of Andy Higginson\u2019s W&amp;G Investments, which hopes to buy the Scottish bank\u2019s \u201cProject Rainbow\u201d unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>W&amp;G Investments is one of three bidders trying to buy the unit \u2014 alongside consortiums led by AnaCap and Corsair Capital \u2014 which will control 5pc of the SME market and have 2m retail customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/10250174\/Hedge-fund-linked-to-RBS-collapse-backs-bid-for-branches.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Toscafund, the $1.3bn (\u00a3830m) fund chaired by ex-RBS chairman Sir George Mathewson, has emerged as a backer of Andy Higginson\u2019s W&amp;G Investments, which hopes to buy the Scottish bank\u2019s \u201cProject Rainbow\u201d unit. W&amp;G Investments is one of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37465,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37464\/revisions\/37465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}