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The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched a 14-point 'customer charter' designed to rebuild public faith in the part-nationalised giant after a torrid two years.
14 June 2010
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a $10 million fund to encourage firms to set up mobile money services in Earthquake-devastated Haiti.
09 June 2010
FirstOntario Credit Union is rolling out video ATMs developed by uGenius Technology that let customers talk live to staff through the machines.
04 June 2010
Barclays has moved to tap the popularity of TV talent shows such as the X Factor with its own competition to find the nation's "hottest dance acts", asking Brits to upload videos of their moves to YouTube ahead of live events.
27 April 2010
Cash has seen its position as king of payments challenged in the UK over the last 10 years by alternatives such as debit and contactless cards and the Internet, says the Payments Council, which predicts the trend will continue, leaving notes and coins all but redundant by 2050.
14 April 2010
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
The UK government has published plans to turn the Post Office and its 11,500-strong branch network into a "people's bank" offering a range of financial services.
29 March 2010
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) is embarking on a massive branch refurbishment and relocation project that will see new technology such as video conferencing introduced to "transform" the way it interacts with customers.
26 March 2010
Mobile banking is overtaking telephone and branch-based banking in the popularity stakes, according to research conducted among UK and US consumers on behalf of mobile transaction network mBlox.
24 March 2010
Ongoing investment in technology by the retail banking sector is essential if the industry is to win the business of a maturing generation of tech-literate consumers who are forsaking traditional physical channels in favour of online consumption of financial products.
01 March 2010
Strong consumer interest in mobile remote deposit capture technology will dramatically alter the current deposit-taking activities of retail banks and provide a viable roadmap to banks pursuing 'thin branch' strategies, according to a study by consultancy Mercatus.
12 February 2010
Lloyds Banking Group has agreed the sale of its 70% stake in esure to the online insurer's founder and chairman Peter Wood for around £185 million in cash.
11 February 2010
Microsoft has signed ANZ Bank as an early adopter of its multi-touch tabletop screen Surface technology, which is being made commercially available in Australia today.
09 February 2010
Banking automation vendor Diebold is to cut 350 jobs from its North American operations as it reports continuing weaknesses in the market for bank branch construction and a sharp dip in full-year revenues and income.
03 February 2010
A group of Cambridge businessmen, including former HSBC head of technology and innovation David Gill, are setting up their own 'boring' bank.
01 February 2010
Virgin Money has stepped up its assault on the UK retail banking market with the appointment of former Lloyds TSB boss Brian Pitman as chairman.
29 January 2010
German IT company Wincor Nixdorf says there are precious few signs of an imminent recovery in retail banking markets as it reports another quarter of depressed net sales and profits.
25 January 2010
Walton & Co, a greenfield start-up planning to enter the UK retail banking market by the end of the year, has received investment pledges worth £95 million from Invesco Perpetual and M&G, according to the Daily Telegraph.
18 January 2010
A new bank, called Walton & Co, could enter the UK market by the end of the year, with fundraising efforts underway to secure £200 million to kickstart the project, according to press reports.
11 January 2010
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