Even a hoax scam highlights need to take care with credit cards

The warning looked real. The post in one of Edinburgh’s online forums was well-written. It used the first person, which implied that the writer had first-hand experience of what they were talking about. It described a new scam apparently affecting Visa and Mastercards, with a very detailed account of the process.
It involves cardholders being called [...]

Building societies trying to find a model for the future

o building societies have a future? That will be at the heart of discussions at the Building Societies Association annual conference in Manchester next week and it was the topic for debate at a meeting of the Financial Services Club in Edinburgh last night.
The Director General of the Building Societies Association, Adrian Coles, [...]

RBS tries to defuse protests about ‘dirty’ investments

By Rob Edwards
The chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Philip Hampton, is to meet environmental and human rights campaigners this week in an attempt to defuse escalating protests about the bank’s “dirty” investments.
The bank’s annual general meeting in Edinburgh on Wednesday has become the target for a wide range of protest groups. They [...]

Giving your money to the cloud

By David Calder
A company in a converted steading outside Dalkeith aims to change the way everyone thinks about about their finances using cloud computing.
Cloud computing is a simple enough idea. Instead of data being kept on a person’s PC, it is kept remotely on someone else’s server. Instead of buying a word processor, [...]