By Kalvin P Chapman

Many people that owned businesses that were ruined by RBS have often asked why they were targeted. Today we have the evidence. The Government failed to get us the evidence. The FCA actively hid the evidence from us. The Courts ruled that most of the evidence is privileged because Clifford Chance solicitors either took the notes or were present, meaning that an attorney-client confidentiality issue arose and anything contained in notes of those meetings is no longer able to be disclosed during litigation. Despite all of those obstacles annihilating any chance a business may possibly have of bringing a claim against RBS – the dump of documents noted below may actually have gone in favour of the customer for once. The FCA must be furious.

A move to GRG could be for multiple reasons. The Bank provided all relationship managers with a “Blue Peter Appeal Sheet” in which relationship managers were asked to move as many customers to GRG as possible. In addition to a Relationship Manager taking the decision to move you, GRG had a set of mandatory or suggested reasons to move you to GRG.

On 10 October 2016 Heidi Blake, the lead investigatory journalist at Buzz Feed, released a cache of 16,000 GRG documents. We know that two things happened in GRG as a result. One was the Blue Peter Appeal sheet along with a covering email entitled “Dash For Cash” (RBS was indeed that desperate that ruining a 20 year relationship with a customer went down to a dash for cash under the fun title of “Blue Peter Appeal”).