RBOS and HBOS advertising to merge?Click on image to zoom in

Could the once mighty two Scottish banks be pulling their resources during the credit crunch. I did a quick double take last week as I passed these 2 billboards on sunny Leith Walk. Both had very similar colour palettes, very similar typefaces and were advertising very similar ISA products. (Although the RBOS did have a slightly better rate of 3.5% to BOS’s miserly 3%.) Round one to Gogarburn. It remains to be seen if the advertising for both sides continues to morph into one huge corporate mass, or should that be mush