Royal Bank of Scotland

397 results about this entity

Period: 23 Oct 2006 - 13 Apr 2023

Tesco to take on UK's retail banks

UK supermarket giant Tesco is set to ramp up its retail banking services after agreeing a £950 million deal to buy out the personal finance joint venture it established with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

RBS trials MasterCard PayPass in London black cabs

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is piloting MasterCard's PayPass contactless payments technology in London black cabs.

Royal Bank of Scotland selects Accountis for e-invoicing

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is implementing technology from Fundtech-subsidiary Accountis to provide bank-branded electronic invoicing services to its corporate customers.

Banks back TradeWeb STP network

TradeWeb says its dealer-owners have committed to use its expanded straight-through processing (STP) platform for the voice and electronically-traded fixed income securities that they trade with customers.

UK's Faster Payments service goes live

The UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live.

RBS looking to sell off Tesco JV stake - report

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is in talks to sell off its 50% stake in Tesco Personal Finance to the UK supermarket in a deal that could be worth up to £1 billion, according to press reports.

Third of UK Web users bank online

Around a third of the UK's online population - 10.9 million people - accessed their bank account via the Internet in January, according to Web metrics firm comScore.

RBS first to deploy MasterCard inControl platform

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is using MasterCard's new inControl processing platform as the basis of a corporate payments system which enables business customers to set strict parameters on spending on corporate cards.

Call centre worker gaoled for data theft

A former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) call centre worker has been gaoled for his part in a data theft scam that resulted in the theft of £33,585 from seven customer accounts.

RBS hires Reuters CIO Lister

David Lister, currently chief information officer (CIO) at Reuters, is joining Royal Bank of Scotland as chief architect.

New futures exchange named ELX

The new electronic futures exchange being set up by a group of banks and trading firms to take on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be named ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange.

PayPal still the UK's favourite

PayPal continues to be the most popular online payment service in Britain, with over 20 million user accounts now registered in the country, which represents more than a third of the UK's adult population.