Philip Hampton
Management
All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to RBS's Half Year Results at the end of another quiet week for bank stocks. And our results once more are quite a mixed bag. We've got continued good progress on the balance sheet. Again, capital funding the non-Core rundown all going very well. And our businesses are, generally speaking, performing much better. Certainly, our customer -- our retail-focused business is doing a lot better. GBM obviously suffering from the general market weakness in that area. But, once again, we've got some big charges coming through, which are effectively the continuing aftershocks of the financial crisis. In our case, Greek sovereign bonds, Ulster Bank and, of course, the PPI charge for redress. I think we're all looking forward probably on both sides of this divide to the day when our results can be simply dominated by the operating performance of our businesses rather than these materializings, which seem to be a recurring feature of our results. We're also looking forward to the publication of the ICB's final report, especially the recommendations on ring fencing. We at RBS were obviously the biggest casualty of the crisis in banking. And, of course, we did make a big ill-judged acquisition. But our losses that we've been recording since the financial crisis got going, have generally speaking, been plain vanilla credit problems rather than losses resulting from trading activities. And so, for example, in this half, we have GBP 2.5 billion of provisions in Ulster Bank, and that's a relatively simple focused Retail & Commercial bank along the lines of the ring fence activities described in the ICB report. So it will be interesting to see how an efficient, enduring ring fence structure can be identified that deals with the dynamic changes, customer needs and market conditions that are really a feature of our world. What we will never get away from is the need for effective internal risk controls, external supervision and an appropriate management culture and team. We've made great progress, I think, on our internal risk controls. We have plenty now of external supervision, and I think we've got a fine management team in place at RBS. And I'll hand you over to the top 2 of those -- of that team to talk to you more fully about the results. Thank you. Stephen?