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A Measly Fine for RBS Shows Just How Little We’ve Learnt From the Financial Crisis
Today the Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to pay a settlement of just $5bn to the US government over its activities in the run up to the financial crisis. Grace Blakeley explains why issuing fines to the ‘bad’ banks won’t do anything to curb the voracious greed upon which our financial system is built.