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Rod Ashley Airdrie Savings Bank (ASB), the UK’s last remaining independent savings bank, is to close its doors with seventy jobs likely to be lost.

The Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group (CYBG) has announced plans to close 40 branches in Scotland and a total of 79 throughout the UK with the loss of 400 jobs.

ESS operations director Mo Petrie, ESS managing director Mike Wilson, Handelsbanken corporate account manager Steven Rae. Ecosse Subsea Services (ESS) has agreed a multi-million-pound revolving credit facility with full service bank Handelsbanken.

As the slump in the oil and gas industry continues to push up requests for aid across Grampian Aberdeen Asset Management has provided funds to help emergency food parcels reach those most in need.

David Ferguson Two new envoys have been appointed by the UK Government to build regional and national networks to help Scotland take advantage of the UK FinTech boom.

Mark Williams Royal Bank of Scotland has provided a financing package to help a Scottish waste and construction services company to further expand its business.

Back, left to right – Mark Macefield, Kevin Cattanach & Frank Pratt Front, left to right – Lyle Crawford, David Main & Louise Presslie Whitelaw Wells, the accountancy firm with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow which can trace its roots back to the 19th century, has announced the firm’s

Business optimism and output in Scotland have fallen to a three year low while hiring intentions are at a two year low, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO. The firm said that while some of this can be put down to the uncertainty surrounding the EU

Barry Benjamin Wealth management is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind other industries, a report published today by PwC finds.

Airdrie Savings Bank, Scotland’s only independent, mutual bank, has produced a twist on the cashback mortgage idea allowing employees, trustees and volunteers of thousands of Scotland’s third sector organisations and social enterprises benefit by £250. Many banks offer cashback to borrowers as

People in China are being encouraged to opt for vertical burial or cremation under new government funeral guidelines aimed at coping with land scarcity. It's hoped the guidance, issued by nine government departments, will promote environmentally friendly forms of burial that take up little or no lan

Three drinks industry veterans have bought Scottish Borders-based craft brewer Broughton Ales. John Hunt, Steve McCarney and David McGowan purchased the business for an undisclosed sum from majority shareholder Giles Litchfield.

Aberdeen Asset Management Charitable Foundation has selected ChildHope as its fourth emerging markets charity partner. The Foundation has made a three year commitment, with an initial six-figure donation, to ChildHope.

Royal Bank of Scotland has been hit with a $669 million (£430m) share of a $5.7 billion fine handed out by UK and US regulators to a clutch of high street banks over allegations that they rigged the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. The fine was agreed after the 80 per cent state-owned l

Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £13,285,900 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting more than 35 million transactions and failing to report another 120,000 transactions between November 2007 and November 2014. The FCA said the size of the fine – the hig