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The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that its own version of the new polymer £5 will enter circulation on 27 October and will be the first main circulation note introduced by the Edinburgh-based bank to feature a women.

Edinburgh-headquartered fintech firm FNZ has made a significant expansion into Australia after announcing an agreed takeover of fellow financial software company GBST. The deal values GBST at £152m - more than twice the average share price in the month to 11 April when it receiv

The Royal Bank of Scotland has today unveiled the designs for its new £5 and £10 polymer notes and has also announced that the Scottish novelist and poet Nan Shepherd will feature on the £5 note when it comes into circulation later this year.

Five businesses have been selected as finalists for this year’s Scottish Financial Services Awards.

University of Edinburgh startup OGI Bio has secured £1 million of investment to help revolutionise microbial culturing. TRICAPITAL led the investment round alongside Apollo Informal Investment, Old College Capital, the University of Edinburgh’s in-house venture investment fund, Sapphire

The Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced that scientists James Clerk Maxwell, Mary Somerville and civil engineer Thomas Telford have been shortlisted to appear on its new polymer £10 note. The note is set to be issued in the second half of 2017 and the final decision on whose face will appear

Alan Steel The founder of a Linlithgow-based wealth management firm, which now looks after over £1.25 billion in client assets, has been presented with the prestigious WeDO Scotland Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

Terra Firma Chambers’ Derek Francis has been awarded the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Association of Taxation Technicians Certificate of Merit and Appreciation at the CIOT and ATT Joint Presidents’ Reception held last Thursday at The Royal Yacht Britannia, Edinburgh. The award was

Ross McEwan Ross McEwan, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has written to the 73 per cent state-owned group’s staff to warn them of “short, medium and long-term” economic uncertainties as a result of the vote to leave the EU.

Hugh Little Hugh Little, the head of acquisitions at Aberdeen Asset Management is to retire this summer, the Granite City-based wealth manager has announced.

On 1 January 2025, Justin Sullivan FRICS became the 143rd President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Mr Sullivan is the founder and CEO of Adair, which has provided expert construction consultancy services globally for over thirty years.

Mary Somerville The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that Scots scientist Mary Somerville will appear on its new polymer £10 notes following the result of an online public vote that was yesterday shrouded in controversy.

Renowned Scottish painter Dame Elizabeth Blackadder has left a £7 million gift to the Royal Scottish Academy to support newer generations of artists and architects. Known as one of Scotland’s greatest painters, Dame Blackadder passed away in August last year at the age of 89. She studied

Douglas Flint Sir Douglas Flint, the Glaswegian former chairman of banking giant HSBC has been announced as the next chairman Edinburgh-based financial giant Standard Life Aberdeen.

Aberdeen-based social enterprise Glencraft has expanded its board to six members, appointing Neil Skene and Ken Robertson as non-executive directors. The move follows the earlier appointments of Laura Bruce and Allan Clow in late 2022, as part of Glencraft's broader development strategy.