Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

158 results about this entity

Period: 31 Aug 2004 - 18 Sep 2025

Regulator gives green light to new Canadian stock exchange

Canadian regulators have given approval to Aequitas, a new stock exchange backed by a consortium of financial services firms that plans to take on TMX Group and keep out high-frequency traders.

Canadian banks to test heartbeat bracelet for contactless payments

Heartbeat authentication startup Bionym is to conduct a multi-bank trial of its wearable Nymi Band for contactless card transactions at the point-of-sale in Canada.

Royal Bank of Canada joins Ibos network

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined the IBOS international banking network to access the wide range of cross-border and local banking services, in support of its Canadian client base who are expanding their business globally.

RBC brings P2P transfers to Facebook Messenger

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has added a feature to its iPad app which lets customers send money to their Facebook Messenger contacts.

RBC preps cloud-based mobile payments service

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is preparing a mobile NFC payments service which will see sensitive user data stored in the cloud rather than the handset.

ANZ and Royal Bank of Canada to engage with IBM's Watson

ANZ and Royal Bank of Canada are working with IBM to test the capabilities of Watson Engagement Advisor for crunching account data and providing clients with relevant, nuanced answers to online and mobile queries.

Chase and la Caixa top mobile banking study; HSBC bottom of the pile

Chase has topped Forrester Research's mobile banking rankings, with Spain's la Caixa proving Europe's top dog and HSBC trailing badly at the bottom of the table.

Tradition launches spot FX trading platform

Tradition has launched ParFX, a spot forex trading platform with the backing of 11 major banks, including Barclays and UBS.

Tsys power outage hits Canadian Visa cardholders

A power outage at payments processor Tsys caused Visa's network in Canada to go down Monday, leaving customers throughout the country unable to use their cards.

RBC signs for Microsoft Surface tech

Microsoft has signed up the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to the latest version of its multi-touch tabletop screen Surface technology.

RBC goes contactless for Vancouver Olympics

Canada's RBC Royal Bank is set to introduce a pre-paid Visa contactless card shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Canada fixed income sees e-trading surge

In the midst of the global financial crisis, Canada's largest and most active institutional fixed-income traders led a long-awaited move into electronic trading, according to research from Greenwich Associates.