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Sir Howard Davies RBS chairman Sir Howard Davies has warned that banks may have to pull operations out of the UK unless satisfactory transitional arrangements for the country’s exit from the EU are drawn up soon.

Thomson Legal has published its annual Scotland Market Overview & Salary Survey 2016/ 2017.

EU law does not preclude an increase in the share capital of a bank without the agreement of the general meeting of the shareholders in a situation where there is a serious disturbance of the economy and the financial system of a member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ru

Elaine McIlroy As "Equal Pay Day" arrives just a day later than last year, businesses should act now on the gender pay gap to avoid long term reputational and financial damage, say lawyers at Weightmans LLP.

Royal Bank of Scotland's ongoing saga that is the sale of its Williams & Glyn business has drawn the attention of the banking watchdog.

Scottish workers are among around 600 staff to lose their jobs at struggling cheque processing firm Intelligent Processing Solutions Ltd.

Debra Tracy of Direct Partners and Stuart MacDonald of Balmoral Asset Management welcome four first year Graduate Trainees, three Modern Apprentices. Edinburgh-based Chartered Financial Planners Balmoral Asset Management are on a mission to recruit young blood into the industry, having recently recr

An Aberdeen pharmacist who admitted forging prescriptions in a VAT fraud of more than £200,000 has been jailed.

Edinburgh-based global investment manager Standard Life Investments has issued a white paper on why impact investing – once a niche corner of the market – is entering the mainstream.

Seven in ten workers (69 per cent) in Scotland would like the freedom to run their own business one day, according to new research from St. James’s Place Academy, the training and development arm of the FTSE100 financial services company.

A legal claim has been launched by around 125 institutional funds against supermarket giant Tesco’s over its accounting irregularities. Bentham Europe has said the funds have filed a claim for damages against the retailer for well in excess of £100 million over alleged breaches of the Financial S

Glasgow-based specialist lender, The Mortgage Lender (TML), has made a number of new appointments, including two senior team members, as it invests for growth following a successful launch earlier this year.

Glasgow-based football club Rangers have posted a loss of £3.3 million in its latest annual report.

(from left) Nina Sutherland, relationship manager Clydesdale Bank; Les Milne, chairman Partick Housing Association; Elaine Reed, head of social housing, Clydesdale Bank and Eamonn Hughes, financial director, Partick Housing Association Clydesdale Bank has provided a £26.5 million funding package to

Royal Bank of Scotland paid at least £180 million to a consortium made up of private-equity firms and the Church of England in exchange for backing the bailed-out bank’s failed attempt to sell-off 300 of its branches on the stock market it has emerged.