True North is working on plans to create a new media brand in the
UK by merging Banks Hoggins O...True North is working on plans to create a new media brand in the
UK by merging Banks Hoggins O ...
Media.
The plans represent the latest phase of Banks Hoggins/FCB s acquisition
strategy to strengthen its UK operation, and the agency s chairman, John
Banks, has put media to the top of the agenda ...
18 Aug 2000
The Royal Bank of Scotland is to a launch basic current account with an annual saving of 19...LONDON (Brand Republic) – The Royal Bank of Scotland is to a launch basic current account ...
excluded market.
The government has given banks a deadline of October to set up no-frills lower-maintenance banking services for the 3m people in this category in the UK who largely do not have bank accounts. RBS ...
18 Aug 2000
| by Claire Billings
in Cahoot.com, its internet banking operation....LONDON (Brand Republic) – Abbey National is in discussions with private equity firm Apax Partners to sell a 20% stake in Cahoot.com, its internet banking operation.
Cahoot was launched in June to take a share of the online banking market after the Prudential’s Egg.com proved successful. Abbey is thought ...
18 Aug 2000
| by MARK JOHNSON
HONG KONG: ING Barings, the London-based investment bank, has
recruited Sheel Kohli as corporate...HONG KONG: ING Barings, the London-based investment bank, has
recruited Sheel Kohli as corporate ...
are normally treated as
separate markets in PR terms.
The bank has been without a communications head ...
in the last two years. The bank
saw a pre-tax loss of nearly pounds 1 billion in 1998 due to problems ...
18 Aug 2000
| by Camilla Palmer
The battle to take control of Welsh utility group Hyder has ended with Japanese bank Nomura...with Japanese bank Nomura conceding victory to US-based Western Power Distribution.
After a week of City ...
by the London Stock Exchange takeover panel, the bank is walking away 30m richer after it sold its 16% share ...
had failed to declare its victory on time. The bank said WPD’s bid was void, despite it being 5p a ...
account for Goldman Sachs, the US
investment bank.
18 Aug 2000
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Top five UK bank and former building society Abbey National has
re-created its most senior media...Top five UK bank and former building society Abbey National has
re-created its most senior media ...
, formerly media relations head
for NatWest s retail and commercial business, who joins the bank next ...
Thomas Coops, who was
promoted at the end of March after four years as the bank s head of
investor ...
18 Aug 2000
| by JENNY WATTS
and the Royal Bank of Scotland, is reviewing
its multimillion pound account out of Faulds Advertising....Work24, a web portal aimed at small- to medium-sized enterprises
and owned by ScottishPower and the Royal Bank of Scotland, is reviewing
its multimillion pound account out of Faulds Advertising.
The portal is the first offering to come out of a pounds 70 million
joint venture between the two ...
18 Aug 2000
| by ALASDAIR REID
, delaying your visit to the bank,
supermarket or filling station by a day or so isn t exactly about...The great British public has just about got the hang of this
consumer power thing. Unfortunately, delaying your visit to the bank,
supermarket or filling station by a day or so isn t exactly about to
terrify many multinationals.
So perhaps it s up to those very same multinationals to show us all ...
18 Aug 2000
| by Louise Banbury
as the UK, where there is strong competition between traditional and online banks. State-run German banks do ...