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The Bank of England’s chief cashier has revealed that the UK’s central bank could produce an official digital currency along the lines of Bitcoin.

Paul Smith Fife-based Smith Anderson Group, one of the UK’s largest food packaging companies, has agreed a new financial package with Barclays, including day-to-day banking, invoice discounting and a facility to help manage longer-term foreign exchange (FX) exposures.

Royal Bank of Scotland is close to a deal to resolve the scandal for its role in the sale of so-called “toxic” sub-prime mortgages in the US that played a major role in the onset of the financial crisis of 2008.

The 10th anniversary of Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Scholar Internship Programme is set to see a record 165 students take part.

(Image: GLD Group) Perthshire clothing and footwear supplier GLD Group has been named as the fastest-growing Scottish business for international sales.

Property wealth boosted the retirement standard of living for pensioners in Scotland by nearly £21.6 million in the first three months of this year – more than £240,000 a day, according to new analysis from over-55s finance specialist Key Retirement.

Elaine Mulgrew The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has appointed Elaine Mulgrew as its new head of finance and corporate services.

Martin Armstrong Wheatley Group has secured £100 million of new private investment as it drives forward the country’s largest house-building programme.

The RBoS Shareholders Action Group has voted to accept a 82p a share offer to finally settle with Royal Bank of Scotland over its disastrous 2008 rights issue.

Hard up Moray Council is giving local businesses the opportunity to sponsor new street names as a way of raising much needed revenue.

Deloitte has enhanced its rapidly-growing digital offering in Scotland with the acquisition of proposition design consultancy Market Gravity.

Amy Gordon and Iona McKay Grant Thornton has appointed two new recruits in Aberdeen as the firm pushes forward with its growth strategy in the north east of Scotland.

More than half of Scots say they occasionally run out of money before payday, with 15 per cent saying they do so ‘most of the time’ or ‘always.’

https://youtu.be/YISE37WiBvM Some of Britain’s biggest high street names, including John Lewis, Debenhams, New Look and Next, are forming a credit union designed to offer staff an alternative to the sky-high interest rates charged by payday lenders.

The High Court Lawyers representing 9,000 Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders have this morning secured an adjournment for the third successive day at the High Court in London.