We shouldn't all take a stab at the financial system just because it caught the worse cold ever due to its own sick greed, causing worldwide turmoil..

Shareholders are the owners of the company, who would you rather they protect? RBS shares are publically available and at time of writing are trading at 59.3p per share, if you think they're being biased towards shareholders, feel free to purchase some shares yourself. You don't have to be a rich b___ard as you put it to afford 59.3p. 

So sick and tired of blind hatred towards the financial system.

"the bank needs to protect shareholders"

Who would that be now? The government, the taxpayers, or some fat, rich b___ards miffed that their portfolio has taken a slide recently?

..but definitely it will save exec's bonuses and pay check equal to small town budget! Impression I have is a CEOs paid to make people's life miserable; more ppl they let go happier wstreet and other criminal gangs are.

They still haven't learnt some basic money saving tricks. I walked past one of their London offices recently at about 10pm, and not only were half the PCs still on, but so were the lights.

Then again, they're still not as bad as the BBC in their Westminster office, whenever you have an early morning interview shown from there, all the PCs have been on all night, and none of them seem to have a power save set to turn the screens off, just bouncing BBC logos all night.