Royal Bank of Scotland

397 results about this entity

Period: 23 Oct 2006 - 13 Apr 2023

RBS to cut 600 staff as branch network withers

Royal Bank of Scotland is once again taking the axe to its branch network, cutting 600 jobs, shuttering 34 high street locations and reducing opening hours in hundreds more.

Atom Bank to deploy 'intelligent software' to answer customer queries

Atom Bank is to augment its mobile banking service with machine learning technology from Xerox subsidiary WDS, to provide customers with answers to queries from an AI bot within the app.

RBS to cut 550 jobs in preparation for robot revolution

Royal Bank of Scotland is to cut 550 jobs as it scales back on in-person advice to customers with less than £250,000 to invest.

Royal Bank of Scotland invests £3.5 million in new mobile branches

The Royal Bank of Scotland’s ‘Lady Linnhe’ has started serving local communities in Scotland.

RBS creates 'Open Experience' centre at Scottish HQ

Royal Bank of Scotland chief Simon McNamara says 2016 will be the year when "innovation moves out of a basement and into the heart of RBS", as the Scottish bank opens a new 'Open Experience Centre' at its Edinburgh HQ building.

Meet Luvo, Royal Bank of Scotland's new virtual assistant

Royal Bank of Scotland is to explore the potential of using an AI bot to answer customer queries following a successful two-month trial of the technology among 1200 staff.

Israel gets fintech hub

Israel is the latest country to get a dedicated fintech hub, as The Floor arrives in Tel Aviv promising to support startups disrupting the financial services industry.

RBS trumpets results from Birmingham startup hatchery

Figures from the first year of the Entrepreneurial Spark Birmingham Hatchery show the success that the hub has brought to start-ups.

RBS prepares to open executive wing to startups

Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to welcome 100 entrepreneurs and ten startup support organisations to the executive wing of its Scottish HQ following a year-long refit of the former symbol of big bank excess.

MPs round on banks following IT failures

Following a string of high profile technical blackouts, Britain's biggest banks have been urged by the UK's influential Treasury Select Committee to invest more resources to improve their technology infrastructure and to appoint board directors with knowledge of IT.

RBS selects 'eco-innovation' finalists; aims to open carbon neutral branch

Royal Bank of Scotland is to trial technology from 12 'eco-innovation' startups across its property portfolio in Bristol as it bids to create its first carbon-neutral banch.

Data is a source of competitive advantage

Paul Thwaite, Head of RBS Transaction Services, Royal Bank of Scotland, outlines the key trends emerging at Sibos 2015 in Singapore, how client needs are developing and the challenges in satisfying them.