LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Royal Bank of Scotland executives misled a parliamentary committee over the contents of a report into the banks treatment of small businesses, a lawmaker said in Britains parliament on Tuesday.
The chief executive and the chairman of state-owned RBS offered misleading evidence about the extent to which the report accused the bank of systematically pushing small business customers in its restructuring unit into further distress, Clive Lewis, a member of the opposition Labour party, said.
Britains Financial Conduct Authority last year published a summary of the report into RBSs Global Restructuring Group, after clashing with lawmakers over the disclosure of its full contents.
Customers have accused the GRG of push…
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