{"id":39298,"date":"2013-11-25T04:42:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39298"},"modified":"2013-11-25T04:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:42:25","slug":"rbs-accused-of-pushing-small-businesses-to-the-edge-to-boost-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/rbs-accused-of-pushing-small-businesses-to-the-edge-to-boost-profits.html","title":{"rendered":"RBS accused of pushing small businesses to the edge to boost profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian &#8211; City\u00a0regulators\u00a0have been handed a dossier of evidence compiled by an adviser to Vince Cable which claims that\u00a0Royal Bank of Scotland\u00a0was deliberately wrecking viable small businesses to make profits for the bailed out bank.<\/p>\n<p>The business secretary \u2013 a long-time critic of the banking industry&#8217;s lending practices \u2013 said some of the allegations were so serious that he had handed the report, compiled by businessman Lawrence Tomlinson, to the regulators and the bank. It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/nov\/25\/rbs-accused-business-profits-regulators\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian &#8211; City\u00a0regulators\u00a0have been handed a dossier of evidence compiled by an adviser to Vince Cable which claims that\u00a0Royal Bank of Scotland\u00a0was deliberately wrecking viable small businesses to make profits for the bailed out bank. The business secretary \u2013 [&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-39298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298","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=39298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39299,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions\/39299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}