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Tags » Announce Yourself!, PayPal, RBS
We have received news of the following recent management changes:
- Roy Vella has been named Director of Mobile at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group leading RBS' global efforts in pursuit of opportunities at the intersection of mobile telephony and financial services. Vella spent the past five years with PayPal - most recently as PayPal's Head of Mobile Payments in Europe.
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Tags » Commercial Cards, MasterCard, RBS, UK
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and MasterCard Worldwide have announced 'they have joined forces and implemented MasterCard's state-of-the-art payment platform, MasterCard inControl' with RBS marketing it as 'Approval-to-Buy' to its UK corporate banking customers.
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Tags » Mobile Banking, RBS
No, it's not what you think. I had to smile as I read the press release announcing that "The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced plans to launch a new mobile banking service in Yorkshire, operating from York and running five days a week. The new mobile service will provide banking to around twenty Yorkshire communities and the service will start in February 2007." These are banks on wheels, not banks on your mobile phones.
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Tags » Card Issuers, Checking Accounts, RBS
The Guardian reports on a decision by RBS to abandon providing its cardholders credit card cheques (aka as "convenience cheques"). In the UK, pressure has been building against the banks as regulators and consumer groups have been challenging the practice while the banks claim they provide the cheques for their cardholders' benefit. According to one industry analyst, the cheques "cost more than using your card, you don't get an interest-free period even if you pay off the balance immediately, and you don't get the same protection as when you use your card."
Tags » Banking Industry, RBS
The Financial Times reports on plans by the Royal Bank of Scotland's Comfort Cards division to expand its consumer lending presence in Germany through a partnership with Tchibo.
