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The Royal Bank of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) [2] is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) and Ulster Bank. The Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland, though there are ...
Website. natwestgroup .com. NatWest Group PLC [1] is a British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business banking, private banking, investment banking, insurance and corporate finance. In the United Kingdom, its main subsidiary companies ...
NatWest International is a trading name of RBS International, which also sits outside the ringfence. NatWest is considered one of the Big Four clearing banks in the UK, [5] [6] and it has a large network of over 960 branches [7] and 3,400 cash machines across Great Britain and offers 24-hour Actionline telephone and online banking services.
Bank Line. The Bank Line was a British commercial shipping line that was established in 1905 by Andrew Weir. The company was sold to the Swire Group in 2003, eventually ceasing operations in 2009. Initially a tramp operator of sailing vessels, it developed into a major company operating shipping lines all over the world.
Royal Bank of Scotland imminent collapse. On 7 October 2008, following a 35% plunge in the bank's share price, dealing in the bank's shares was suspended. The bank Chairman, Tom McKillop, contacted the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling, to advise that the bank was within hours of running out of money.
Fred Goodwin. Frederick Anderson Goodwin FRSE FCIBS (born 17 August 1958) [2] is a Scottish chartered accountant [3] and former banker who was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) between 2001 and 2009. From 2000 to 2008, he presided over RBS's rapid rise to global prominence as the world's largest company by ...
George Mathewson. Sir George Ross Mathewson, CBE FCIBS FRSE (born 14 May 1940) [2] is a Scottish businessman. He is best known for transforming the Scottish bank The Royal Bank of Scotland from a struggling regional player into a quasi global bank with parallels to Citigroup or HSBC. He was described by the Sunday Herald, as "banking's answer ...
An early Williams & Glyn's Automated Teller Machine. Glyn, Mills & Co. was founded as the private bank, Vere, Glyn & Hallifax, in the City of London in 1753 by Joseph Vere, Richard Glyn and Thomas Hallifax. The Vere family interest ended in 1766; William Mills joined in 1772; and when the last of the Hallifaxes departed in 1851 the Bank became ...