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UK nationalisation
Labour plans to retain key private sector role in Britain’s nationalised railways
...Industry executives and analysts said nationalising the roscos would have been a far more expensive and complex challenge than the train operators....
April 26, 2024
Electric vehicles
Investors tap into demand for electric buses with new funding model
...Roscos paid £409.7mn in dividends to shareholders in the financial year ending in March 2023, according to the rail industry regulator, at a time when the rest of the rail industry has struggled financially...
April 7, 2024
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Rail
Labour pledges to fully renationalise rail network
...Rolling-stock leasing companies, or Roscos — which are owned by financial investors and were set up to supply new trains to the UK railway following privatisation in the 1990s — will remain....
April 24, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Alphabet beats earnings forecast and announces first-ever dividend
...Rolling stock companies, or roscos, operate out of sight of passengers but are the financial backbone of the rail industry, and have spent the past 30 years buying passenger trains and leasing them to privatised...
April 26, 2024
LexRail
UK rail strike: solution should suit passengers, not staff or bosses Premium content
...But if hybrid working remains the norm, a big fleet would still be needed midweek. Again, Roscos do not appear unduly profitable....
July 26, 2022
HTSI
How double denim swaggered back into fashion
...Production, Rosco Productions...
June 13, 2021
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Letter
Flaw in the Treasury’s valuation of Railtrack
...All four businesses were sold at a substantial discount to their true value....
March 8, 2018
Rail
UK’s new train orders signal danger for leasing groups
...The 379s are victims of a surge in new train orders — a trend that is putting rolling-stock leasing companies, or Roscos, at risk. In the UK, Roscos own 92 per cent of existing trains....
December 6, 2016
European companies
Italy state rail operator makes binding bid for Greek counterpart
...No bids were received for Rosco, the Greek rolling stock company, which was also up for sale, the same officials said....
July 6, 2016
European companies
Putin issues ‘crosshairs’ warning to Romania and Poland
...Russia’s state railways group RZD has officially expressed interest in buying the Greek railways operator TrainOSE and the rolling stock company Rosco which are due to be privatised this year....
May 27, 2016
Rail
Train order deadline put back
...The DfT has long believed Roscos offered poor value for money and in 2007 asked the competition authorities to investigate aspects of their operation....
March 23, 2009
UK banks
UK ministers set to snub train lease proposal
...Three large Roscos – Angel Trains, now owned by a German-led consortium; Porterbrook Leasing, owned by a consortium including Lloyds Banking Group and Deutsche Bank; and HSBC Rail, part of the banking group...
April 7, 2009
European companies
Deutsche Bank team buys UK rail stock group
...The report exonerated the roscos of misusing their market position, concentrating its recommendations on government rail policy....
October 27, 2008
FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
B&B joins rival bidder for UK’s Angel Trains
...Australian-listed infrastructure fund Babcock & Brown, which was bidding separately, has teamed up with a consortium of US insurer AIG and Deutsche Bank in the bid for Angel....
January 15, 2008
UK politics
Deal dogged by enormous controversy
...Then the government sold the three Roscos for what turned out to be a song – £1.8bn – with the three companies that bought them selling them on within two years for a total profit of about £850m....
November 23, 2007
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trouble in store as dollar falls
...The hardest-hit companies, if the commission takes action, would be the three Roscos, which own nearly all Britain’s passenger and freight trains....
November 29, 2006

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