Insight & research

• Corporate Priorities and Challenges
• Manufacturing Focus: Managing Materials Prices
• Perspectives
• Responding to Recession report
• The Shape of British Industry
• Harvard white paper and podcasts
• International Business Insight
• RBS Group Economic briefings
• InFocus

Specialist support

• Complete cash management review
• Guide to selling a business
• Pension scheme planning
• Managing financial risk
• Contingency planning
• Corporate and personal investments

Reports & resources

• Your Liquidity review

Research findings from UK corporates

• RBS: Responding to Recession (PDF, 635KB)

RBS commissioned respected independent research company Illuminas, to explore how decision makers in UK corporates have adapted their business strategies.

Over three hundred senior decision makers were surveyed and along with views on business performance and the impact of the recession; optimism about the future came through with corporates citing the flexibility of the UK workforce and an improving environment for exports as important factors.