IT'S EIGHT weeks since Dame Alison Rose stepped down as chief executive of Natwest Group, but the dust shows no sign of settling, with key decisions about her payoff and any regulatory sanction outstanding.

I can also reveal today that her imbroglio with Nigel Farage cost her another - albeit unpaid - role. Sources close to the bank say Rose was being lined up as the next chair of Business in the Community, the business-led charity.

Her withdrawal from the appointment process, which took place just before the Natwest board changed its tune and decided she should leave the bank, left BitC back at the drawing board in the search for a successor to former BT Group chief executive Gavin Patterson.

Given its habit of appointing serving CEOs of FTSE 100 companies, it could do worse than looking elsewhere in the UK banking sector and target Charlie Nunn at Lloyds.

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