Online banking Car maker Toyota hinted it may make a foray into online banking. It has already moved into e-commerce and finance, including credit cards.

• In office Work 24, a portal offering products and services to small businesses, yesterday became the first result of the £70m web alliance between Scottish Power and Royal Bank of Scotland . Work 24 provides website building and monitoring facilities, online buying of stationery, computer hardware, software and travel, plus other services such as online conferences, email, document storage and networking.

• Out Jeremy Curnock Cook who quit as principal of International Biotechnology Trust last week has now resigned as chairman of Biocompatibles . He is replaced by the a former Northern Ireland secretary, Sir Richard Needham. The shares fell 19p to 322p. • Mobile Italy's largest bank, Banca Intesa , is studying a web banking project with the mobile phone operator Omnitel , controlled by Vodafone AirTouch . Intesa also announced an e-commerce joint venture with the big Italian engineering and defence group Finmeccanica.
Useful links
International Biotechnology Trust
Toyota