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Latest figures released by the Bank of England have revealed that Royal Bank of Scotland has slashed lending to small and medium sized enterprises through the Funding For Lending initiative by more than £250 million over the past three months. According to the BoE data, 74 per cent state-owned RBS

Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland has announced plans to shut three more of its branches in the capital. The bank, which was bailed out by taxpayers at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 to the tune of £45 billion, said its latest round of closures will include its Fairmilehead, Colint

Aberdeen-based consultancy Aspect: The Strategic Communication Experts has become 100% employee-owned through a new employee ownership trust (EOT). The announcement, coinciding with employee ownership day, comes after significant growth under founder and CEO Andrew McCallum. The firm's revenues are

Scottish craft beer brewer Innis & Gunn has been announced as the headline partner for Celtic Connections, the Glasgow winter festival celebrating Celtic music, for the next five years. This collaboration between the two Scottish brands will kick off at the 2025 festival, running from 16 January

Edinburgh hospitality business Surgeons Quarter Ltd (SQ), is marking its 20th anniversary with high expectations of achieving its most successful year to date. The commercial arm of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), SQ is set to surpass a £12 million turnover milestone, drive

Royal Bank of Scotland Group has become the latest high street bank to suffer a major IT failure after customers of its RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank brands were left without access to their accounts online via desktop and app platforms.

The Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Asian Business Chambers have announced a new partnership to support entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities to grow.

Scotland has a thriving technology sector but there’s still a huge amount of untapped potential that could further elevate its success and bolster our economy. Women, who remain significantly underrepresented within the sector, have a major part to play in making this happen, writes Jackie War

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced that a new cohort of academic entrepreneurs has been awarded prestigious Enterprise Fellowships. Six innovators, each with a unique business proposition, will now benefit from an equity-free support package worth up to £100,000, to aid them in

Scotland's food and drink sector is growing three times faster than the whole of the Scottish economy in the last decade, the RBS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has revealed. The bank's PMI was at 53.5 in August, which surpassed the all-manufacturing reading of 49.6.

Edinburgh tech business Neatebox has raised more than £180,000 from investors as it continues to capitalise on the huge market for its Welcome app, which gives businesses and venues advance notice of customers' disability requirements.

The ‘Summer Rose’, a £2.1m scallop vessel based out of Oban is being set to work following funding support from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Philip Hammond The Government has outlined a raft of measures aimed at tax cheats and designed to bring billions of pounds into the public purse.

House prices in Scotland have continued to edge upwards, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

Vandana Pillai and Dhruv Trivedia of Bounce Back based in Glasgow – an after-alcohol replenishment drink - with Scottish EDGE CEO Evelyn McDonald (Image: scottishphotographer.com) A competition that provides grants to accelerate growth in Scotland’s start-ups has been awarded £1 million from Sc