RBS Online Banking Refresh Coming

WillPS

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

gary1312

WillPS said:

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

I'm aware that the branches you mention were to go to W&G but I'm interested to know if there was ever a firm plan to run those branches as a seperate stand-alone bank or would it always have been a case of another bank basically buying the branches/accounts and then rebranding?

pridehappy

To be honest, I think the blue suits Royal Bank of Scotland more and NatWest purple, probably better to keep them as they were - although I do agree the internet banking needed updated but just font etc.

eskbanker

pridehappy said:

I do agree the internet banking needed updated but just font etc.

What benefit do you see from changing fonts?

stclair

WillPS said:

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

There’s still a RBS branch open in wales it don’t close until August 2023. 😂

gary1312

stclair said:

WillPS said:

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

There’s still a RBS branch open in wales it don’t close until August 2023. 😂

In which town is this branch located?

stclair

gary1312 said:

stclair said:

WillPS said:

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

There’s still a RBS branch open in wales it don’t close until August 2023. 😂

In which town is this branch located?

Johnstone 👍

pafpcg

chuwi said:

Santander re-did their online banking, making it unusable for me. I had made a load of adblock rules to remove the ads-not-ads, things like "credit card account. You have 0. Sign up now". Now the OLB has cartoons on the homepage, and will not work at all without Javascript. ......

I don't recall any irrelevant pop-ups or screen displays appearing in my Firefox browser-based usage of Santander (I login about twice a day) other than the Santander product adverts which appear after logout.  I haven't modified my AdblockPlus profile for Santander but I do use NoScript to default to block all javascript - when a web-site does not function properly, my approach is to display NoScript's list of blocked URLs and to enable each one in turn until the web-site functions well enough to use.  It works for me!

gary1312

stclair said:

gary1312 said:

stclair said:

WillPS said:

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

There’s still a RBS branch open in wales it don’t close until August 2023. 😂

In which town is this branch located?

Johnstone 👍

Johnstone is in Scotland.

IanManc

gary1312 said:

stclair said:

gary1312 said:

stclair said:

WillPS said:

stclair said:

IanManc said:

jackjones01 said:

gary1312 said:

jackjones01 said:

I always thought they’d get rid of RBS in England and Wales and just have it in Scotland as a brand. 

They have. The product offerings are identical and there are no RBS branches in England except for one just south of the Scottish border and the Drummonds/Holts branches. But anyone south of the border can still open accounts online and just use local NatWest branches as I and some others on this board do. Similarly, people north of the border are free to open NatWest accounts and get service at RBS branches.

I don’t agree with this as there are still branches of RBS in England. However, you are correct in the fact that you can transact in both RBS and NatWest in the same way. 

Seeing you disagree with @gary1312 saying that the only RBS branches in England are Holts, Drummond and "one just south of the Scottish border" - i.e. Berwick upon Tweed - maybe you'd like to tell us where they all are?

Here's a link to the RBS branch finder to help you:

https://www.rbs.co.uk/search-results/locator.html

Helpful hint: @gary1312 is right and there aren't any.

There was a RBS branch in my area until recently and I’m down south. 

Yes, there was a few spread across England and Wales until last year. Some even had refurbs fairly recently.

It should be noted that the plan to shrink the Royal Bank brand back to Scotland has been in the air for years - the English and Welsh branches (except Holts, Childs, Drummonds and possibly Berwick) were all to transfer to Williams & Glyn (and then onward to Santander at one point).

There’s still a RBS branch open in wales it don’t close until August 2023. 😂

In which town is this branch located?

Johnstone 👍

Johnstone is in Scotland.

Yes it is - about 14 miles west of Glasgow.