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Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 17/04/2013 | 3671 views

National Savings and Investments are rather too lethargic

National Savings & Investments : Once you've bought your Premium Bonds online then you are ’obliged’ to register with NS&I’s "Online and Phone Service", ostensibly for your “Security and Convenience”. Until they’ve processed your registration (which has to be done on paper), you can’t access your ... Tags: Security, Mobile & online

Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 28/01/2013 | 2493 views

RBS Internet Banking is not for the English

I had fun with RBS Internet Banking on Sunday. When I went to Login as usual via a page dedicated to RBS Customers in England, I got an error message that my Login credentials hd not been recognised. I contacted their Help Desk via Chatroom, and they assured me everything was working correctly, and what I needed to do was delete all my Cookies &am... Tags: Mobile & online

Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 31/10/2012 | 2601 views

Thank you Andrew Haldane

While we never expected the BofE to be thanking the #occupy movement Andrew just drop me a line if you would like some sensible legislation supported. Initial budget was about $1000, 2 people. Protests in 2400+ towns & cities. Startlingly effective, don't you think? There's definitely something to be said for social media eh? ;) BTW before any... Tags: Risk & regulation, Retail banking

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 20/08/2012 | 2247 views | 2 comments

Trust me, I'm a Banker

My husband's copy of British *adult* comic magazine Viz landed on our doorstep this weekend. (Whatcha gonna do? - at least he's not into football) In it is a wonderful two-page spread called 'Bankers! True-Life Heroes of our World' (Next week Somali Pirates) (I'd show you the comic but 1. copyright issues yadda yadda yadda and 2. while we are not... Tags: Risk & regulation

Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 26/06/2012 | 2992 views | 5 comments

RBS don't seem to understand basic book-keeping rules

RBS is reported as saying that all Customer Accounts are back to normal. They may well be from a monetary perspective, but the data still remains corrupt. I now have on my Business Account 3 BACS credits, one for nearly £500, all with a generic description of “RBS TRANS 220612”, which fails to identify the Customer or the Invoic... Tags: Online banking, Payments