The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) is intending to dispose of 15.3% shares in its motor insurance startup, to boost its capital base ahead of regulators’ deadline. Representing nearly 229.4 million shares, the share sale will be ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking group that owns NatWest, has suffered another embarrassing outage when its computer systems crashed last night, leaving its 7.5 million customers unable to withdraw cash, access their current ...
I3 Solutions Group the vendor neutral critical IT and facilities consultancy - announces the appointment of banking sector IT guru Shaun Barnes as its UK and EMEA managing director MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, February 09, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ ...
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Octopus Investments (Octopus) in partnership with Lightsource Renewable Energy (Lightsource), its dedicated in-house solar development company, has announced that it had successfully secured funding from The Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate ...
Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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CA Technologies has confirmed to Computer Weekly it is working with Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to solve its current technical issues,which have left customers unable to access their funds since Thursday. The software supplier has been ...
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NatWest is today facing another significant outage, leaving customers unable to access online banking or use their debit cards. Customers have been complaining about the problems, with a number of readers contacting Computer Weekly to ...
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Spanish bank Banco Santander has pulled out of its multi billion pound agreement to take over 316 Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)branches,and the customers associated with them,because of IT integration problems. But sources say that IT ...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)Group has teamed up with Visa Europe to bring mobile payments to customers through its TouchPay scheme. The banking group–which includes RBS and NatWest–has introduced TouchPay cases for Apple ...
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The main thrust in enterprise systems this year has been the introduction of Windows 8 as the new Windows client OS. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, a new programming model for Windows software development, as well as a new way of thinking ...
The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
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The IT failure that struck Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cost the bank more than expected as £50m is paid to customers in compensation. The IT problems that struck in June meant customers of the bank and subsidiary NatWest had ...
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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has demanded details of how major banks plan to prevent a repeat of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) software glitch in June 2012. The glitch in the CA7 batch process scheduler meant 12 million ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will pay 125m in costs related to computer problems in June that meant customers could not access any funds credited to their account. The glitch in the CA7 batch process scheduler ended with 12 million ...
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The Treasury Committee requested that RBS chief executive Stephen Hester provide a detailed explanation of what went wrong at the bank to cause its ongoing IT issues. In a letter to the bank, Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury ...
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