It's a slightly different situation to Fannie May, in that RBS was a privately-owned business, and only became government-owned because it ran into so many prob

It's a slightly different situation to Fannie May, in that RBS was a privately-owned business, and only became government-owned because it ran into so many problems. It's not a 'government institution' as the Bank of England is - the government just took control to stop it collapsing.