Archive for August, 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
The tenth annual FST Awards 2010 will be held on 25 March at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London. The event attracted 405 guests from all sectors of the financial services industry last year. RBS, Allied Irish and Barclays sent in entries from their retail banking operations, with Citi, Deutsche Bank ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Strange but true, a cash machine operator, Bank Machine, is introducing five Automated Teller Machines in East London that speak cockney rhyming slang. The usual on screen prompts and options have been replaced, so that customers going to the independent non-LINK cash machines will now be asked to enter their ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
The advent of the web 2.0 technologies, such as twitter, social networking sites like Facebook, and other new forms of communication that utilise user-generated content, means that protecting your brand has never been more challenging. If a bank or insurer loses a disk containing people's personal details, or pays our ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reported a pre-tax profit of £15m today for the first six months of the year, but this was transformed into a £1 bn loss after paying tax and dividends to the UK government, which owns 70 per cent of the group following its rescue ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
All the talk of a return of investment banking profits and, controversially, bonuses for traders and staff, was further supported this morning when Barclays announced that its pre-tax profits for the first half of 2009 rose 8% to £2.98 billion, versus the same period last year. The investment banking arm, ...
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