Things worth reading: 1st March 2013

Things we're reading today include …

• Osborne fights to limit bonus cap fallout
• RBS gears up for Britain's biggest-ever privatisation
• RBS lost £5.2bn in 'chastening' year
• Bankers look for ways round bonus caps
• £215m for investment bankers in £600m RBS bonus pot despite £5.2bn losses
• Treasury: RBS pay 'some of the lowest bonuses'
• All-time high for Bitcoin currency
• 'The most deluded measure to come from Europe since fixing the price of groceries in the Roman Empire': Boris Johnson attacks EU banker bonus cap
• End of the line for online passwords
• Blow for City as Brussels agrees banker bonus caps
• EU nears deal on single banking rule book
• Osborne's 'shrink the bank' strategy means a smaller, less profitable RBS

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