182 results about this entity
Period: 04 Oct 2004 - 27 Nov 2024
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Royal Bank of Scotland has received over a dozen bids for its Global Merchant Services business, which includes WorldPay, with private equity groups, payment processors and IT vendors all in the frame.
08 April 2010
Virgin Money and Santander are among five firms to have put in bids for the 318-strong Williams & Glyn's branch network owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, while Nick Ogden, founder of the WorldPay payment processing business, has submitted his offer to buy the unit back from RBS ahead of today's deadline.
07 April 2010
Russian authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind the 2008 cyber-attack on RBS WorldPay's computer network, which lead to the theft of over $9 million, according to the Financial Times.
23 March 2010
Voice Commerce, a UK-based biometric payment verification vendor, has recruited RBS WorldPay executive Tim Reynolds as chief technology officer as it looks to capitalise on its recently achieved payment institution status.
20 January 2010
Voice Commerce, the UK-based biometric payment verification group established by former RBS WorldPay founder Nick Ogden, has received authorisation from the Financial Services Authority to establish as a Payment Institution under the European Payment Services Directive (PSD).
11 November 2009
A US federal grand jury has indicted eight Eastern Europeans in connection with a crime ring accused of hacking into the computer network of RBS WorldPay, creating counterfeit debit cards and withdrawing over $9 million in 12 hours from ATMs around the world.
The founder of online payments operator WorldPay, Nick Ogden, has formally approached the Royal Bank of Scotland about buying the business back.
06 November 2009
RBS WorldPay has introduced contactless payments for transit passengers on a number of buses in the Liverpool Stagecoach network.
13 October 2009
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.
24 July 2009
UK high street retailer Boots is teaming with MasterCard and RBS WorldPay to introduce contactless payments at stores in London and Liverpool.
12 May 2009
In the wake of revelations about major data breaches, Heartland Payments Systems and RBS WorldPay have been removed from Visa's list of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service providers.
17 March 2009
RBS WorldPay, the US payments processing arm of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, allegedly lost $9 million in a 30-minute period during a global ATM heist that involved 100 cloned cards in 49 cities worldwide.
04 February 2009
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