Royal Bank of Scotland hopes to reach a settlement with the US Justice Department over alleged mis-selling of toxic mortgage-backed securities this year, its chief executive said on Tuesday, although it has no news on the timing of any deal.
"I've got the timing of this completely wrong for the last 15 months, I thought we would've had it tidied by end-2017... all I'd say (is) it will be in hopefully in 2018," Ross McEwan said at the Morgan Stanley European Financials conference in London. The expected multi-billion-dollar settlement would be a key milestone.
-Reuters, London
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