What price Goodwin? Bookies' list candidates for RBS top job

Nathan Bostock, RBS head of restructuring and risk, was immediately hailed as the odds-on favourite, with rumours he is being groomed as the next successor circulating the City since yesterday. Ladbrokes set its odds at 1/2, while Paddy Power installed him as the next successor at odds of 3/1. Other likely successors are Bruce Van Saun, RBS finance director, at odds of 14/1 at Ladbrokes and 8/1 at Paddy Power, and Richard Meddings, Standard Chartered's finance director, whose odds stand at 12/1 at Paddy Power and 4/1 at Ladbrokes. Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, and Georg...