About RBS

Employees: 135,000
Headquarters: Edinburgh, UK
Branches: 4,000 worldwide
Customers: 36 million worldwide
Geographic spread: 30 countries worldwide - main centres - UK, US, Ireland; growing fast in Europe and Asia
Market Value: EUR 99.4 bln (as at February 20, 2007)

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has grown from being a leading Scottish bank to a major international group with a market capitalisation bigger than McDonald's and Starbucks. They've acquired businesses. They've grown organically. They entered US banking with the acquisition of Citizens Bank and now it's a top-ten US commercial bank. They completed the biggest takeover in British banking history and now they have the largest branch network in the UK.

Did you know?

  • With the ABN AMRO acquisition, RBS now employs 168,000 employees in more than 50 countries across five continents - a wider global footprint than Starbucks
  • RBS now has a footprint in the economies that account for 91% of world GDP growth, and a presence in nine out of the ten countries that contributed the most
  • RBS serves more than 40 million customers worldwide - more customers than the population of Poland, Peru or California
  • RBS businesses generated more profit in 2007 than Phillips, Coca-Cola and Adidas combined
  • RBS retail and commercial banking in the US made more profit in 2007 than Nike did globally
  • RBS invests more than EUR 1.5 mln each week in the communities in which they operate.
  • RBS has provided financial education lessons to more than 1.5 million school children and is the largest supporter of financial education and inclusion in the UK with an investment of almost GBP 40 mln over the past ten years.

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