Royal Bank Of Scotland Embraces Open Source
News The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that it is working on a large content management system based on the open source application server Zope. At the end of last year, the bank sent an email to a number of Zope mailing lists, stating that it was...
[January 25, 2006, 13:20]
Halifax Bank Of Scotland Manages Its Ever-Expanding SAN
White Papers The Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is the UK's largest mortgage and savings provider. As one of the UK's leading financial organizations, HBOS has a huge presence in the community not only through the products and services that it provides to...
[November 6, 2006, 23:00]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Rolls Out Chip And PIN
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. An Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) spokeswoman said that customers who make frequent "advanced transactions" — people setting up payments to new third...
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Embraces Open Source
Talkback I understand the concern of recruiting firms not knowing anything about open source, but we have in fact been recruiting open source people for 6 years. As I realize that is not the norm, there are indeed firms out there that do have experience and...
[January 25, 2006, 19:13]
Launch Of Faster Bank-payments System Delayed
News The 13 financial organisations are: Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, National Australia Bank Group, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank, Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
[August 16, 2007, 10:05]
Protecting Data With A Scalable, Flexible, And High-Performance Solution From Symantec
White Papers Following the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland in 2001, HBOS, the merged entity of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, has 22 million customers and assets of more than £440 billion. Following a landmark decision few years ago to deploy Veritas...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Virtual Banking Hits The High Street
News According to Gordon Sharpe, director of e-business at the Bank of Scotland, electronic purses -- which will allow online customers to deposit and withdraw money virtually -- will be available in the next two years.
[November 24, 1999, 8:50]
Mobile Phones Let Scottish Drivers Pay And Display
News A new system allows drivers to use their mobile phones to call an automated call centre and either pay their parking fee with a credit card or charge the fee to a pre-registered FastPay account with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
[November 18, 2003, 11:40]
A Year Ago: Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News Tory chairman Michael Ancram last night called in Scotland Yard to hunt for computer hackers he believed had broken into the Tory party's treasury bank account. Scotland Yard investigates unauthorised access
[November 24, 2000, 5:01]
JP Morgan Boosts Glasgow IT Opportunities
News Nicol Stephen, deputy first minister for Scotland, said the creation of the new jobs emphasises the availability of high-quality IT professionals in Scotland. Scotland's universities should take great credit from this decision as JP Morgan sources...
[December 1, 2006, 15:00]
Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News Tory chairman Michael Ancram last night called in Scotland Yard to hunt for computer hackers he believed had broken into the Tory party's treasury bank account. Scotland Yard has not revealed what leads they are following but have confirmed that...
[November 24, 1999, 13:19]
Scottish Power To Launch Online Bill Payments
News Scottish Power is to join with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in an Internet joint venture offering a range of financial, utility and maintenance services in one package. Iain Robertson, chief executive of RBS' UK bank, told reporters the serice...
[January 12, 2000, 14:59]
Implementing Basel II: The Practical Implications
White Papers Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank - which all supplied panel members for the event - appeared to be on the right track. 180 risk professionals gathered in London to discuss the practical implications of implementing Basel II.
[September 17, 2007, 0:00]
Tesco Announces Online Banking Plan
News Tesco Personal Finance, the joint venture between the supermarket chain and Royal Bank of Scotland, Wednesday launched its entry into the online-banking world. Internet banking has boomed in recent months as financial institutions such as...
[November 4, 1999, 11:33]
Hoax Porn Site Traps Scottish Bank Manager
News Chalmers left his management position at the Royal Bank of Scotland in July, reports the Daily Record Wednesday. A Scottish bank manager has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after a court convicted him of downloading more than 100 images...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
Online Banks Failing Customers
News Gladman points to Egg, Smile the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax as the worst offending banks. If someone else steals your security details and you realise when you get your statement and complain to your online bank, the balance is shifted to...
[July 6, 2000, 17:18]
Visa Plans Trial Of Contactless Debit Cards
News MasterCard and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have already announced their own plans to trial contactless debit cards for 1,000 of the high-street bank's staff at the retail outlets at RBS' Edinburgh campus HQ.
[June 26, 2006, 16:35]
Study Criticises UK Banking Web Sites
News Eight achieved greater than 90 percent with Royal Bank of Scotland coming top. The best of the 32 sites were Birmingham Midshires and The Co-operative Bank, which topped the table compiled by Web site testing firm Business2www.
[March 31, 2004, 11:55]
FTSE 100 Losing The Search Battle
News When you search for big names [in finance] like HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland -- yes, they'll come up, but when people search for things.like 'insurance', their presence is woeful. The research found that financial institutions fared...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
Markets Stumble Over Weak Tech Shares
News The strong performance in the stock market over the past few days has taken me by surprise," said Royal Bank of Scotland technical analyst Brian Kiely. Dealers said the main focus of attention was the Bank of England's interest rate meeting which...
[May 3, 2000, 10:23]

