British taxpayers were sitting on paper losses of around £2.5bn (€2.9bn) today as the deadline for Royal Bank of Scotland’s £15bn (€17.5bn) share offer expired.
The British government has agreed to buy any of the 22.9 billion new shares not taken up by existing shareholders to shore up RBS’s finances.
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