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The Proud Scotland Awards has announced that The Royal Bank of Scotland will be the headline sponsor for the 2020 event which will take place in Edinburgh this autumn. The glittering ceremony will take place on October 3rd at the Sheraton Grand Hotel and the organisers are thrill

The Scottish Government has called upon the UK Government to fill gaps in the funding schemes implemented to help businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lyn Calder, a managing partner of Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB), has called on the government to implement a series of wide-reaching measures aimed at helping businesses to survive the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyn Calder, who is also the firm’s head of deals f

The combination of a reduction in oil prices and the coronavirus crisis has created the most turbulent market conditions since the financial crisis in 2008, severely impacting Initial Public Offering (IPO) activity, according to EY’s latest IPO tracker, EY IPO Eye

“Extreme pressure” is being placed on the Scottish construction industry due to the lack of detail for the UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a building company has warned.

Supermarkets in the UK are to benefit from a £3 billion tax break whilst sales skyrocket due to the coronavirus lockdown, according to Tax Watch UK.

Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced a donation-matching programme of up to £5 million for the National Emergencies Trust (NET) coronavirus appeal, aimed at leveraging a further £5m of support from the public. The move will mean that from next Friday, donations to the NET made by R

Cash usage in the UK has halved in the last few days after coronavirus social distancing and 'lock down' measures were implemented this week, according to Link, the UK's biggest ATM operator.

Alistair Greig, the financial services chief behind a £13 million Ponzi scheme, is facing jail time for the scam. The fraud saw 165 victims of the scheme convinced to place their money in “guaranteed” high-interest accounts which cost many victims their life savings.

Betway has been ordered to pay an £11.6 million fine by The Gambling Commission for failing to ensure that money deposited by gamblers was not obtained through criminal activity.

Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his first Budget for 2020/21 in the House of Commons. The budget took into account the economic impact of the recent COVID outbreak and contained measures to mitigate any problems stemming from this.

House prices in Scotland rose for the sixth consecutive month, but new buyer enquiries softened after strong growth in January, according to the February 2020 RICS Residential Market Survey.

Dundee-based investment company Alliance Trust has posted its annual results which reveal the company's outperformance in 2019. The Trust’s Total Shareholder Return for 2019 was 24.3% (2018: -6.1%) and the Trust’s Net Asset Value (NAV) Total Return1 was 23.1% (2018: - 5.4%) versus 21.7%

Eagle-eyed shoppers will start to see the new £20 Bank of Scotland polymer note as it officially enters circulation.

Holyrood’s Finance and Constitution Committee has called upon the Scottish Government to adopt a more strategic approach to budgetary management.