Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

LOL cynic. Do Coutts still want you to keep £500k in Cash and your funds are only protected up to a total of £85k - Is that a good risk for someone concerned about a few minor credit card scams?

Still, only a branch of RBS/NatWest nowadays, as I think I recall them selling off the international side a couple of years ago. Correct me if I am wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42739680

Who would trust RBS Bank or any of its subsidiaries?

" In a backbench debate on GRG on Thursday, Sir Vince Cable said the full report mentioned an "incriminating phrase": "Management knew or should have known that this [was] an intended, co-ordinated strategy, the mistreatment of business customers was a result of that, and that the head of GRG responsible for that policy, Mr Nathan Bostock, is now chief executive of Santander."

MPs attacked GRG for treatment which had resulted in customers losing not just their business but often their homes, their marriages or their health.

Labour MP Clive Lewis said: "The cost of this is immeasurable, but we believe it to be in the tens of billions. So let's be clear here. This is the potential size of the injustice that has taken place in our country. If it is this big, it may be the largest theft anywhere, ever."

You don't have to have contactless. I have three bank accounts and two credit cards. When they have sent me new cards with contactless, I contact them and request cards without contactless.

Coutts are not bothered about how much cash you have in your account. They are only interested in assets and more importantly a regular high income. It's a brilliant bank for service.

Coutts, even.

As a very high quality bank, I'm sure they are bothered about people getting their name right. ;-)

Android spelling checker changed it

far too many zeros CT :-)
though it can be argued that banking with Coutts is expensive, i find their service excellent, in all sorts of respects and thus good value

Is there trouble in USA about to hit the headlines , bigger than Watergate .

like what and with what substantiation?


if you guys spent half as much time buying or selling or trading shares, instead of wasting so much effort on the the two main twaddle threads, you might have picked up profitably on a least some of the gems that have been mentioned elsewhere - and no, CARD was definitely not one of them!

Maybe Obama is a Filipino after all? Wasn't on CNN, so must be true.

Poor connection today wireless playing up , but on Breitbart News Network . " Worse than Watergate " .

Front page of The Times.
City traders getting away with abuse of markets. Insider deals by white-collar criminals ignored.
The so called Financial Conduct Authority has prosecuted only 8 cases of insider trading in the last five years.
Well who would have thought. The LSE is as bent as a nine bob note and the regulator is not fit for purpose. I was living in the US when Walmart took over ASDA. I noted the abnormal dealing in the ASDA shares prior to the announcement and wrote to the regulator about the clear insider trading. I received a letter back saying that it would look into the matter but it was policy not to notify of any findings thereafter - or words to that effect. Unsurprisingly, nothing ever happened.

I remember ordering some currency from Coutts about 45 years ago. There was a problem in getting it before close of business. They sent a courier to my home in the evening.

I had some items that I wanted to store securely. I asked if they had deposit boxes. They said no but I could store in their bank vault. I asked how much and they said free.

They found a trunk in their vault belonging to Lord Byron a few years ago.

Another tunnel....perhaps a motorway tunnel would be better as a second fixed link because the cost of maintaining a bridge across the channel would astronomical due to adverse weather !....in fact I would suggest there are other tasks that would be more beneficial to the UK such as :
-A motorway tunnel linking Sheffield to Manchester (20 miles long),
-the continuation of the fast rail link to Scotland with a fork to Belfast with a tunnel across the irish sea linking London to Belfast as well as Glasgow and eventually the track could be then extended to Dublin.
-Reclaiming the Wash from the northsea with a dam from Boston to Hunstanton with rail and motorway links from east Anglia to Lincolnshire.
Just some of the massive infrastructure that would be very good for the UK.

What is the accident rate like on long distance motorway tunnels (ie. longer than 5miles)?

Motorways, in general, are safer than normal roads.

If they only allowed Autonomous vehicles on new selected long distance roads, they might be even safer, and it would be a great way to trial them.

The Future leader of the neo-cons.

Bear Grylls would do the grand opening :-)

as and when there is a tory leadership contest, i would hope to see ruth davidson among those contending ...... i think she might be very good and also has more popular appeal for many good reasons

I agree with you.

That would really bury the tory has-beens.

do you rate her as a serious politician?
she certainly seems to have shredded labour in scotland