Summary
IT WAS on Valentine's Day at the beginning of the new millennium that the City woke up to the fact Sir Fred Goodwin was a banking force to be reckoned with.
In 2000, at just 41, a relatively tender age for banking chief executives, Goodwin masterminded what remains the UK's biggest banking takeover, when Royal Bank of Scotland bought NatWest for GBP 21bn.See the full content of this document
Extract
Too Many Feathers in His Cap for the Sceptics
He had only been in the RBS chief executive job for a year when he eyed the ambitious takeover, but it earned him immediate admiration from the City ...
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