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ANZ buys RBS businesses for $687 million

ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... region from the Royal Bank of Scotland for $687 million. According to an ASX release this morning, the acquisition includes the RBS retail, wealth and commercial businesses in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong - along with institutional businesses ...

Banks to tap ATMs for advertising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... revenue from third party advertisers. Current customers of atmAd include Nationwide Building Society, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Alliance & Leicester. The firm also calls Barclays, Lloyds TSB, TBS and HSBC among its clients who use i-design's interface ...

RBS restructures Aussie equities team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... has appointed a new head of equity capital markets (Australia) and named three new members to its Australian equities team. RBS has appointed David Goffage as head of equity capital markets Australia, replacing Patrick Broughton who will be relocating ...

Rev mortgage guide "out of date": RBS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has criticised a reverse mortgage report - citing it contains case studies that are out of date. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Paul Clitheroe led Australian Government Financial Literacy ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... (green shoots) happened is what happened. The financial system survived Bear Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and Freddie, Northern Rock, RBS, Iceland, et al during the darkest economic moment since the Great Depression. The financial system is certainly better ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... about nationalisation anyway? The British government has already nationalized Northern Rock last year and owns 68 per cent of RBS and 43 per cent of Lloyds. It remains a democracy. The German government has recently proposed a law to allow it to seize ...

Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... been forced to suspend new applications for its superannuation fund loan product, SuperAccess, after being told by its funder RBS that its facility would not be renewed. Calliva chief executive Vince Scully said RBS, which put a $200 million warehouse ...

NAB in talks to buy ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
National Australia Bank (NAB) is in discussions with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to purchase ABN AMRO Australia Holdings' investment banking and wholesale banking businesses in Australia and New Zealand. A NAB statement released on the Australian ...

CBA links with German investment bank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... in Australia or Germany. The agreement follows the CBA's existing agreements with other major international banks such as RBS, Bank of America, Bank of China and ABN Amro. Stephen Holden, general manager of working capital and international finance at ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... rose between 0.7 and 0.9 per cent in the last quarter. In other news, the July monthly financial aggregates released by the RBS showed that borrowing increased by 1.2 per cent compared to June so that the year to date tally is now 14.8 per cent, the ...