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laresSun 16/10/11 14:07

"RBS trial of iPhone poses new threat to BlackBerry"

"UK bank is the latest to test Apple smartphone's suitability for confidential corporate communications following the large-scale BlackBerry shutdown last week"

"The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is the latest major financial institution to trial the use of iPhones and iPads among senior staff, the Observer has learned, in another sign that the BlackBerry's status as the City's mobile gadget of choice is under serious threat.

Similar trials are being run by US banks Citigroup and Bank of America and the trend portends more trouble for the BlackBerry's creator, Research In Motion (RIM), which is still reeling from its biggest-ever system failure last week. The outage left large swaths of its 70 million user base unable to send or receive emails and texts, or use the internet, for nearly four days.

RBS, which employs 17,000 people in its investment bank and 140,000 across the world, confirmed: "We are piloting iPhones and iPads within our leadership team."

It is understood the Apple devices at RBS are being run for the time being as "read only", meaning they cannot be used to store information.

Morgan Stanley is also thought to be running a small iPad trial, according to a source within the bank. Bank of America, which has 280,000 staff, and Citigroup, with 250,000, have been running large iPhone trials of up to 1,000 employees since last year.

The pilots are to establish whether Apple devices are secure enough to manage sensitive company information, in particular emails and shared documents. Financial services regulators require banks to ensure that all communication between staff in sensitive positions, such as traders and merger and acquisition advisers, is recorded and retrievable."

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