Closer and far away
30 July 2015

The state-controlled UK bank is building capital, shrinking assets and expunging historical nasties. The second quarter’s 11 percent operating profit growth reassures. Yet non-state investors’ greatest desires – dividends and an end to government meddling – are not yet in sight.
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