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Sir Howard Davies Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced the appointment of soon-to-be chairman Sir Howard Davies as non-executive director.

Angela Seymour Jackson Angela Seymour Jackson is managing director, workplace solutions at Edinburgh-based Aegon UK

David Mundell The UK government is to reject an amendment to the Scotland Bill which calls for full fiscal autonomy north of the border, the Scottish secretary has confirmed.

Andy Murray joins crowd-funder Scottish tennis star Andy Murray has joined the advisory board of London-based equity crowd-funder Seedrs.

New controls over private sector rents would price visitors out of staying in Edinburgh during the festivals, letting agents have claimed. David Alexander, managing director of DJ Alexander, said he fears fewer flats would be available for short-term rent under proposals drawn up by the Scottish Gov

The Bank of England unveiled its plastic notes last year. The Bank of Scotland has announced that its next £5 and £10 banknotes will be printed on plastic.

Fraser Lusty An audience in Inverness will hear tomorrow how crowdfundng is performing a vital role by filling a finance gap for Scotland’s investors and businesses.

Hazlehead Park Councillors have backed plans to build a 200-bedroom hotel on green belt land in Aberdeen.

Twenty one intrepid cyclists from PwC Scotland are gearing up join the UK firm’s ambitious Ride the Nation challenge, which will cover over 2,500 miles – including almost 300 in Scotland - raising funds for the Scottish Association for Mental Health, the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in

Andrew Thorburn It has finally been officially confirmed that Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank is to be split from its Australian parent company and floated.

One in eight people living in Scotland have been victim to fraud in the last year, according to the results of a survey conducted across the UK in March. Insolvency trade body R3 commissioned a poll of 2,000 people across the UK to support its claims that the scale of fraud in the UK is "staggering"

The first three months of 2015 saw the rate of economic growth half to 0.3 per cent, according to latest official figures. The result was the slowest quarterly growth for two years, Office for National Statistics said.

Ian Sayers The annual aggregate dividends paid out over the past year by Venture Capital Trusts reached its highest level in the 20 year history of the vehicles.

New research by academics has revealed that men compete to outdo each other with the size of their charity donations when the recipient is a pretty woman. Scientists at University College London and the University of Bristol say the tendency is the result of a subconscious competitive streak rooted

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