RBS has taken up a large amount of space here in Financial Regulation Matters since the blog began, and also column inch after column inch in the business media. Financial Crisis-era transgressions, headline-catching financial penalties (whether large enough or not), a return to profitability, sell-offs that represent losses for the taxpayer, and also running businesses into the wall are all aspects that plague the recent and current era of the massive bank. However, now that Ross McEwan has made his move back to Australia after resigning in April , it is worth taking a closer look at the man that led the bank through one of the most difficult periods in its nearly 300-year history. The post-Crisis era for RBS has been, and arguably continues to be turbulent (despite returning to profitability). Going through those post-Crisis era developments is worthwhile, but we shall do that through the prism of understanding Ross McEwan more. Born in 1957 in New Zealand and educated at Has