John Hourican interview
IT’S A TOUGH time to be a leader. Few would envy, for example, the tasks of politicians and regulators as they try to chart a course through catastrophic economic times.
But there aren’t many harder roles in the private sector than the one facing John Hourican. Since October, he has been tasked with running, reinventing and reigniting Royal Bank of Scotland’s global banking and markets (GBM) division.
Global banking and markets – and more specifically its credit and lending sub-divisions – was a primary cause of the largest loss in UK corporate history, at £25 billion ($37 billion), driving a once proud bank into the purgatory of majority ownership by the UK government. That stake leapt from 58% to 70% in February this year when RBS hived off £325 billion of impaired assets to the UK’s asset protection scheme. ...
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