Royal Bank of Scotland Twenty 20 Cricket Tournament in Lahore

As soon as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stepped in Pakistan, it has started spending money to provide entertainment opportunities to Pakistani people free of charge. Royal Bank of Scotland is going to organize a Twenty 20 Cricket Tournament from 4^th October 2008 to 8^th October 2008 in Gaddafi Stadium and other grounds within Lahore. The matches will start at 10 in the morning and will continue till late night. Keeping in mind the Pakistani culture, RBS has reserved a special enclosure for families. So, expect 5 days of awesome cricket actions in Pakistan.

Entry Fee

Entrance in Gaddafi Stadium Lahore is free of charge. Anyone having a national identity card may enter the stadium to watch thrilling cricket action.

Reserved Enclosures

Imran Khan and Javed Miandad enclosures are reserved for customers of RBS. RBS customers can collect their tickets from nearest RBS branch. Fazal Mehmood enclosure is reserved only for family audience. So, you may take your families to the stadium very comfortably.

Coverage

RBS Twenty 20 cricket tournament matches will be telecasted live on Geo Super and FM 101.

RBS purchased ABN AMRO in Pakistan

Yesterday I was driving through F-10 Markaz in Islamabad, when I came across a bank named RBS written over a dark blue board. I never saw any bank of this name in Pakistan before so I came home and searched on net. This is when I came to know that The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has purchased ABN AMRO and re-branded ABN AMRO branches in Pakistan to The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on 1^st August.

Among the Asian markets, Pakistan is the first where ABN AMRO has been re-branded as RBS effective from 1^st August. The Royal Bank of Scotland announced to launch two new retail banking products; RBS Islamic Banking (previously known as ABN AMRO Islamic Banking) and Royal Preferred Banking (previously known as Van Gogh Preferred Banking).

John McCormick, Chief Executive Global Banking & Markets for Asia Pacific, RBS said “Today marks an important milestone for the integration of RBS and ABN AMRO’s businesses and we are thrilled that Pakistan is one of the very first countries to reach this milestone in Asia Pacific.” Read the rest of this entry