Royal Bank of Scotland

397 results about this entity

Period: 23 Oct 2006 - 13 Apr 2023

Scammers hit Royal College of Surgeons for £465,000

A conman posing as an RBS employee duped a member of staff at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) into handing over banking details before withdrawing £465,000 from the organisation's account, according to local press reports.

Which? criticises online banking security

UK consumer group Which? has accused Abbey and Halifax of employing poor online security measures, leaving customers vulnerable to fraud.

Three more banks join CLS/Icap FX joint venture

Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley have joined four other founder banks in supporting the CLS/Icap joint venture to provide trade aggregation services in the over-the-counter FX market.

RBS WorldPay sells German POS acquiring business to easycash

The Royal Bank of Scotland's German domestic acquiring arm, RBS WorldPay, has sold its merchant point-of-sale portfolio to local outfit easycash. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SmartPool signs up members

SmartPool, the European exchange-led dark pool for block trading set up by Nyse Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan says 14 investment firms have now signed up to the platform.

ELX Futures offers free trades during July

ELX Futures, which is set to launch tomorrow, says it will not charge for trades in July as it looks to strike an early blow in the battle to take market share from the dominant CME Group.

TD takes Yieldbroker stake

The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) has acquired a stake in Sydney-based electronic trading outfit Yieldbroker. Financial terms were not disclosed.

RBS cuts hundreds of IT jobs

The Royal Bank of Scotland is axing around 700 jobs from its information technology and property divisions in the first wave of its previously announced cull of 4500 UK staff.

LCH.Clearnet looks to deal with bidding consortium

LCH.Clearnet has responded to last week's EUR830 million offer from a consortium of banks and Icap by indicating its willingness to interweave elements of the bid with its own restructuring plans. Meanwhile, the clearing house is also set to restructure its technology platform in a bid to save millions of euros a year.

UK retailer Boots to trial contactless payments

UK high street retailer Boots is teaming with MasterCard and RBS WorldPay to introduce contactless payments at stores in London and Liverpool.

Icap consortium makes EUR830m LCH.Clearnet bid - FT

A consortium of 11 banks and interdealer broker Icap has launched an EUR830 million bid for LCH.Clearnet just weeks after the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation called off its pursuit of the London clearing house, according to the Financial Times.

Third of European Internet users bank online - comScore

Over 100 million Europeans visited online banking sites in February, a third of the continent's Internet users, according to figures from Web metrics firm comScore.