RBS today announces an interim ordinary dividend of 2p and a special dividend of 12p, representing £1.7 billion being returned to shareholders.
Other financial highlights include:
Excluding items associated with the Alawwal bank merger, as announced on 17 June 2019, H1 2019 return on tangible equity was 7.5%.
Q2 2019 operating profit before tax was £1,681 million with an attributable profit of £1,331 million and return on tangible equity of 15.8%.
