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Alistair Darling Ten years on from the global financial crash of 2008, a new BBC documentary will deliver a dramatic account of one single day, 7th October 2008, when the Royal Bank of Scotland collapsed and almost took the entire UK banking system down with it.

Specialist tax relief firm, Catax, is to triple its Scottish workforce and open a new office in Glasgow.

House prices in Scotland have continued to increase and may grow by almost 20 per cent during the next four years, according to two separate reports.

Mike Manby UK consumers are now more distrusting of consumer-facing businesses than they were three years ago, according to new findings from Deloitte.

Eileen Blackburn The number of restaurants in Scotland going bust has almost quadrupled over the last decade, according to new analysis of the sector by accountants and business advisers French Duncan.

The word fintech has finally been entered into the Merriam-Webster dictionary after after decades of usage having been accepted to have entered the general vocabulary.

Andy Chamberlain The decision to abandon a promised tax cut for millions of the UK’s smallest businesses represents a fundamental breach of faith by a UK government that seems to have turned its back on the self-employed, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) sa

Banks and building societies in the UK are relaxing lending standards and cutting fees in order to retain momentum in the housing market and protect their weakening profits, the FT has reported. The trend, which comes despite the rules brought in to address the easy lending that play such a major ro

Anne Boden Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has approached challenger bank Starling for help in developing a digital bank of its own.

Jenny Stewart A new poll by professional services firm KPMG suggests Scottish consumers are less confident of a Brexit deal being reached, and more likely to cut their spending in the event of a “no deal” Brexit, compared to consumers in other parts of the UK.

David Alexander, managing director of D J Alexander Average house prices in Scotland have increased by just 5.7 per cent since they peaked in September 2007 compared to a UK rise of 20.2 per cent according to a study by a leading property management firm.

Danish investor Julian Wolhardt has become a "person with significant control" at Glasgow-based football team Rangers and is set to become one of the club’s biggest shareholders, according to reports.

Ian Mitchell Law firm Lindsays has appointed Ian Mitchell as a Partner in its corporate team based in Glasgow.

West and Central Scotland have seen the biggest increase in house price per m2 in Scotland over the last five years but traditional housing hotspots in the East remain the most expensive.

The annual High Pay Centre/CIPD assessment of FTSE 100 CEO pay packages has found that CEO median pay rose by 11 per cent between 2016 and 2017, despite prominent criticism from the investor community and the Government over excessive CEO pay awards in the past year.