RBS Branch Sale Announcement

scott_lithgows

twirlygal wrote: »

Not sure if this was a typo but so funny and so true SATANder is about right.
Having worked for them and seen their legendary customer service from both sides of the counter I will have nothing more to do with them. Although they do have some good products, with them its all about increasing market share at any cost with very little thought given to customer service.
I have called my RBS branch and asked them for forms to transfer my account to Scotland. I have been with them since they were Williams and Glynn and I do not want to be told by the government who I should bank with :mad:

Not a typo,cant really call them (sh)abbey anymore.They ruined National + Provincial BS in the 90,s and I,ve had a healthy hatred for them ever since,had run in,s with them even when not a customer.

I might open 10 Scots Nat West accounts and 10 RBS English accounts and leave £1 in each to cost them the postage on statements every year.

susanne2010

wornoutmumoftwo wrote: »

Sorry, confused. Are some RBS branches are becoming Santander? I'd have to leave RBS, there is no way I'm giving Santander a penny of my money.

i dont know if this is 100% acurate but my branch of RBS is saying all RBS banks will be taken over by santander,the take over will take between 12 to 18 months, and nat-west is also a branch of RBS so how long will it be before we lose nat-west to santander ,im moving my accounts to the co-op ,in the letter i recived from RBS it advised me that if i moved to santander before the take over i would recieve £100!,so it may look like santander are calling the shots already, i wonder if they are trying to get us all on board before the take over so they can renegotiate there current offer which has been accepted by RBS,i will not become a santander customer at any cost they will need to keep there bribery £100 to pay into a compensation fund for all the unfortunate customers it already has upset with there incompetence....

Makeandsave

I will also be ringing up about moving my account, Any set up a facebook account yet to let others know?

LittleVoice

susanne2010 wrote: »

i dont know if this is 100% acurate but my branch of RBS is saying all RBS banks will be taken over by santander,the take over will take between 12 to 18 months, and nat-west is also a branch of RBS so how long will it be before we lose nat-west to santander , . . .

Not 100% accurate.

Only RBS branches in England and Wales are included in the sale, not those in Scotland.

NatWest branches in Scotland are included, not those in England and Wales.

Halifax_sux

MrTomato wrote: »

Our banks are mostly foreign even if you think they're English. They're PLCs. HSBC,

how could anyone, even for one second, think that HSBC, i.e. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, could possibly be "English"? it only moved here because we were handing Hong Kong back to the Chinese, they needed a branch network and the Midland fitted the bill quite nicely.

Halifax_sux

is it possible to find out where the smallest rbs branch in scotland is? better still, what's the address of that mobile branch they show in the tv ad's? surely, if they can take a mobile branch to the far flung islands, then they could send one just down the M6 for me.
i want my willie glynns branch back but with access to it via the rbs online banking facility. it's not perfect, they stupidly don't allow users to send them a message when they are logged in therefore all personal details needed to be entered over an unsecured connection then they constantly harp on about security, but it's fairly functional, easy to use and doesn't require over-use of a card-reader. besides, rbs have a freepost address in edinburgh, i send all my mail there and let them sort it out (done in protest when they started to use regional centres and stopped me being able to put a face to the name on any letter i received).
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MrTomato

Halifax_sux wrote: »

how could anyone, even for one second, think that HSBC, i.e. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, could possibly be "English"? it only moved here because we were handing Hong Kong back to the Chinese, they needed a branch network and the Midland fitted the bill quite nicely.

Because its HQ is in London. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was found by a Scottish person. And back then, Hong Kong was a colony.

So yes, I can think it is 'British'. Perhaps not 'English', but that is what I quoted.

How can anyone think Standard Chartered is British (which they do) yet its operations in this country are tiny? Would be a similar situation.

MrTomato

Halifax_sux wrote: »

is it possible to find out where the smallest rbs branch in scotland is? better still, what's the address of that mobile branch they show in the tv ad's? surely, if they can take a mobile branch to the far flung islands, then they could send one just down the M6 for me.
i want my willie glynns branch back but with access to it via the rbs online banking facility. it's not perfect, they stupidly don't allow users to send them a message when they are logged in therefore all personal details needed to be entered over an unsecured connection then they constantly harp on about security, but it's fairly functional, easy to use and doesn't require over-use of a card-reader. besides, rbs have a freepost address in edinburgh, i send all my mail there and let them sort it out (done in protest when they started to use regional centres and stopped me being able to put a face to the name on any letter i received).
i recommend my practices to the house

I dunno what the smallest is, but the branch in Scalloway in Shetland is only open for 2 hours a week on a Wednesday.

Just look how small it is: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ZE1+0TR&sll=60.38672,-1.208496&sspn=1.870325,5.817261&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Shetland,+Shetland+Islands+ZE1+0TR,+United+Kingdom&ll=60.13752,-1.277783&spn=0.007361,0.022724&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=60.13756,-1.277994&panoid=Nbtx5dfbjUMFOC8vpxhUkg&cbp=12,96.91,,0,5

Surely it'll be one of their smallest.

jen245

Looks like Santander is trying to take over the world! I was with A&L now Santander, and I have a savings account with Natwest, so today, I applied to transfer my Santander account to Natwest, if you have an RBS account in England, Id do the same, just switch it to Natwest

Halifax_sux

MrTomato wrote: »

Because its HQ is in London. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was found by a Scottish person. And back then, Hong Kong was a colony.

So yes, I can think it is 'British'. Perhaps not 'English', but that is what I quoted.

How can anyone think Standard Chartered is British (which they do) yet its operations in this country are tiny? Would be a similar situation.

who it was started by is irrelevant, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was a huge worldwide bank that needed a new home before we handed our colony back to the Chinese. our government at the time, i guess chris patten would have been heavily involved in this, insisted that they moved their HQ to london as a condition of the purchase of the Midland - and it's branch network. it was a marriage of convenience. a formula one driver deciding to live in geneva this year and monaco the next when he gets the real big bucks driving for ferrarii.

as for Standard Chartered Bank, they have always been a UK bank - even though they only have a few branches here. but they are not "similar", i would be very surprised if Chartered would ever consider moving from it's UK home.
btw, i once worked for Chartered Bank.