37 results about this entity
Period: 18 May 2004 - 16 Nov 2009
News
The severe storms that swept across the UK late Friday caused a power failure at a HBOS data centre in Yorkshire that knocked out the high street bank's cash machines, branches and online banking services.
16 November 2009
Banking systems vendor Misys has reported a positive set of first half results and named Sir James Crosby, former chief executive of UK banking group HBOS, as chairman designate.
30 January 2009
Lloyds TSB has named Mark Fisher - currently overseeing the integration of ABM Amro into the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) - as director of group IT and operations.
04 November 2008
Lloyds TSB says it expects to reap £1.5 billion in annual savings from consolidation of technology, branch closures and job cuts as part of its mega merger with distressed high street rival HBOS.
03 November 2008
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) says BankWest - which it is acquiring from Britain's Hbos - will be included in the overhaul of its core banking operations.
09 October 2008
British banking group Hbos - which is set to be taken over by Lloyds TSB - is planning to offshore around 2000 UK-based IT jobs to centres in India, according to press reports.
02 October 2008
Lloyds TSB should be forced to halt all offshoring programmes in return for government support for its takeover of Hbos, according to a union representing thousands of staff at the bank.
23 September 2008
Hbos chief executive Andy Hornby has fallen victim to ID theft after a fraudster stole his identity and withdrew thousands of pounds from his personal bank account.
20 August 2008
UK bank group Hbos is cutting hundreds of jobs under a restructuring of its mortgage operations, which includes the closing of its TMB brand.
13 August 2008
The UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live.
27 May 2008
Around a third of the UK's online population - 10.9 million people - accessed their bank account via the Internet in January, according to Web metrics firm comScore.
28 April 2008
The majority of credit card holders want to manage their accounts via the Web, according to a UK study from customer research outfit Global Reviews which found that Lloyds TSB provided the best online experience for card customers.
11 April 2008
A Glasgow court has heard how two professional poker players exploited a glitch in HBOS ATM machines to steal over £150,000 with the intention of funding a gambling spree in Las Vegas.
12 March 2008
UK banking group Hbos is implementing card fraud detection technology supplied by business intelligence software vendor SAS which it will use to monitor debit card transactions.
31 January 2008
British banking group HSBC has come out top in a study that examines how global banks are tackling the risks and challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
11 January 2008
UK high street bank Abbey is planning to open 300 new branches over the course of the next five years.
11 December 2007
UK banking group Hbos has disclosed plans to invest £160 million in expanding its operations in Australia, including the opening of 160 new branches on the more densely populated east coast of the country.
13 July 2007
The majority of customers still prefer to do their banking and buy financial products at branches because of poor performance of Internet and telephone channels, according to a global retail banking study conducted by management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
13 June 2007
Bank of Scotland (BoS) - part of the UK's Hbos banking group - is notifying more than 60,000 mortgage customers that a computer disc containing their personal information has been lost in the postal system.
04 June 2007
UK bank Halifax has admitted that paper documents containing confidential information on some 13,000 of its mortgage customers have been stolen from an employee's car.
27 March 2007
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