Independent Scotland – FT
As the complexities of unravelling the 300-year-old union become apparent, we seem to have belatedly noticed that our two biggest domestic banks are incorporated in Scotland, a country far too small to support them as a lender of last resort. The obvious answer is to reincorporate in England. Royal Bank of Scotland could finally bury the recent past by rebranding with a new name: National Westminster Bank, for example.