Royal Bank of Scotland Group finished up 5.1%, despite initially starting with declines of around 2%.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Strategic Value Partners hold the remaining 25% in the Italian firm.
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In London, Royal Bank of Scotland Group declined 2.2% and Barclays shed 2.1%.
The witnesses are the chairman and chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), Sir Philip Hampton and Stephen Hester.
HSBC, the most active underwriter of "dim sum" bonds overall, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, for instance, have formed teams dedicated to developing their offshore yuan services in London.
Last year, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group took a 10% stake in Bank of China , while Bank of America struck an agreement to acquire up to 19.9% of China Construction Bank.
"You're seeing a gradual recovery in consumer spending from some of the disastrous numbers we saw after the crisis in 2008, " said Omair Sharif, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC in Stamford, Conn.
Its importance has grown in recent years after the banking crisis forced two of the U.K.'s largest financial institutions, Lloyds Banking Group PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, to halt dividend payments after the government bailed them out.
"I think if we have a look of what happened to the rand and to the stock market straight after the announcement - that was a lot more telling, " said Dermot Quinn Head of Global Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
Last year, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group took a 10% stake in Bank of China , while Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) struck an agreement to acquire up to 19.9% of China Construction Bank.
European banks including UBS AG, Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG have announced more than 70, 000 job cuts since midyear, compared with 42, 000 by U.S. peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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The computer failure affected the entire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group, but Ulster Bank took longest to resolve the issue.
The company's two main bank lenders are Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
The initial problem was due to a failed software upgrade within the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group, which includes Ulster Bank and Nat West.
In the UK, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group both lost about 2.3%, in France Credit Agricole and Societe Generale fell about 2%, while in Germany Commerzbank slipped 1.7%.
JPMorgan, an investment bank, reckons that an increase of just 0.2 percentage points in the borrowing costs of British banks such as Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland would trim their earnings by 8-11% next year, assuming they could not immediately pass these costs on to customers.
London's iconic Grosvenor House hotel has been bought from the Royal Bank of Scotland by an Indian business group.
At the top rung of qualifiers, there's unusual but not surprising movement in financials: ING Group and Royal Bank of Scotland both fell hundreds of places from the top ten.
Hilco, which already owns HMV Canada, has bought the debt of HMV from the group's lenders, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Most of these banks, like Lloyds Banking Group ( LYG) and the Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS), have looked weak since since early in the year and are already down over 50% year to date.
But state-backed banks Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland both reported losses.
Shares in the part-nationalised UK giants Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland rose by 3% and 2% respectively.
Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) made up the bottom -- and weakest -- group of banks.
As expected, the four UK banks passed the test - Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group.
Jeremy Peat, group chief economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland, said the figures provided further encouragement for the Scottish economy.
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Rival insurer Aviva announced 1, 690 cuts last month, while Royal Bank of Scotland is shedding 9, 000 jobs and Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 985.
In 2008 the British government bailed out Scotland's two biggest banks, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS, which was acquired by Lloyds Banking Group.
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