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RBS helped back to profit by new investment banking unit

Financial crisis still hangs over the UK bank, which faces a potential settlement with US authorities over the sale of mortgage-backed securities

RBS helped back to profit by new investment banking unit

Royal Bank of Scotland swung to a first-quarter profit from a large loss a year earlier, helped by soaring revenues at its newly-branded investment bank.

Net profit in the first three months of 2017 amounted to £259 million, versus a £968 million net loss a year earlier.

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