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Leah Hutcheon Leah Hutcheon, founder and CEO of Edinburgh-based start-up and online booking specialist, Appointedd, has won Business Women Scotland’s International Growth of the Year award.

The UK government has reduced its stake in Lloyds Banking Group to below 9 per cent after Chancellor Philip Hammond sanctioned a new share sale.

Daniel McKernan Edinburgh-based global asset manager, Standard Life Investments, has launched a new bond fund to address the potential for significant drawdown that an increase in fixed income market volatility could bring.

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported losses of £469 million for the third quarter of the year as its latest attributable or "bottom-line" loss was widened by restructuring costs of £469 million and conduct and litigation costs of £425 million, as well as a deferred tax write-off of £300 million.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjHf67IxQSc&feature=youtu.be An American bank which has no branches and whose customers handle their banking affairs entirely online has placed ‘Lucky Pennies’ worth $1,000 each in 10 cities around the country.

Royal Bank of Scotland has held discussions with a group of institutional investors aimed at settling one of several outstanding cases against the scandal-hit lender, according to reports.

Latest sales figures have shown Scottish retailers enjoyed better trading than those in the UK as a whole during the three months since the Brexit vote.

Dr Melanie Goward Glasgow-based investment house Maven Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Dr Melanie Goward as investment director to its London based investment team.

A Scottish accountant who was banned from being a company director after he paid trade creditors but not the taxman when his construction industry business went into liquidation in has failed in an appeal against his three-year disqualification.

David Morgan By David Morgan Partner at Burness Paull

While the UK Commercial property market is showing some signs of a return to a more positive mood post the EU vote, London and Scotland are lagging behind the rest of the UK, according to the Q3 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ UK Commercial Market Survey 2016.

The UK’s pension holders have cashed-in over £7.6 billion from their savings pots since the British government brought in new retirement freedoms last year.

Scotland had 218 corporate insolvencies in the course of the second quarter of the current financial year, down from the 258 in the previous quarter – a 15.5 per cent drop, according to latest data.

Sian Aitken Sian Aitken and Graeme MacLeod of CMS look at a case confirming the precedence of domestic administration proceedings in a multi-jurisdictional winding-up, marking the first time “modified universalism” has been recognised in Scots law.

(from left) Nina Sutherland, relationship manager Clydesdale Bank; Les Milne, chairman Partick Housing Association; Elaine Reed, head of social housing, Clydesdale Bank and Eamonn Hughes, financial director, Partick Housing Association Clydesdale Bank has provided a £26.5 million funding package to