Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which is 70%-owned by taxpayers¹, has reported a pre-tax profit of £15m for the first six months of the year.

皇家苏格兰银行，70%的股份被纳税人所有，上半年财政报告税前获利150万英镑。

The statement from RBS was downbeat（下降的）, highlighting the £1bn net loss and saying "the results, as we had clearly warned, are poor".

They were boosted by a £3.8bn profit from buying back the bank's own debt when the banking² crisis made it cheap.

RBS also said it had written off £7.5bn of bad debts.