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Selected awards
Best Banking Provider – Royal Bank of Scotland
Your Money Direct
The Innovators 2006 awards –
The Royal Bank of Scotland Contactless Card
Scottish Financial Enterprise.
Best Direct Lender – NatWest
Best Bank for mortgages – NatWest
Your Mortgage Awards
Best CAM/Offset Mortgage – The One Account
Moneyfacts
Best On Line Business Banking Provider –
Royal Bank and NatWest Business
Your Money Direct
The Editor’s Award: The race for China’s
High Net Worth Individuals – Coutts Asia
Private Banker International Awards 2006
Best specialist/independent private bank – Coutts UK
All Euromoney awards
Business to Business award – RBS International
Chartered Institute of Marketing, Guernsey
Best Current Account of 2006 – RBS International
for Advantage and Royalties International
Portfolio International
Best Customer Retention Programme 2006 –
RBS International for packaged accounts
Chartered Institute of Marketing
The Sunday Times Best Big Companies To Work For –
4th – RBS Retail Banking
The Sunday Times
RBS Group • Annual Report and Accounts 2006 23
Wealth Management
Coutts & Co is the leading private bank in the UK and
strengthened its position with income growth of 20% and
a 9% increase in customer numbers. Coutts has continued
its regional expansion and now has 23 offices in the UK.
Coutts International has a network of offices in Switzerland
and a presence in selected jurisdictions around the world.
In 2006 the headquarters for this business was moved from
Switzerland to Singapore.
Sustained investment in Asia has seen Coutts grow
its client base by 13% and revenues in the region by 24%.
Working with GBM we have enhanced our derivatives
and FX capacity which is proving attractive with ultra high
net worth clients elsewhere in the world.
RBS International is one of the largest UK offshore banks
with 39 offices across the world in nine jurisdictions and
achieved double-digit income and profit growth in 2006.
RBS International launched a new internet banking
service, i-banking, providing an online personal multi-
currency, multi-jurisdiction service with access to
international and same-day UK payments.
Adam & Company have five offices in the UK and
one in Guernsey, and achieved a 14% growth in income,
its twelth successive year of double-digit income growth.