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Standing L-R: Matthew Brown, Stephen Webster. Seated L-R: Susan Bennett, Alison Miller. Scottish financial services company Thorntons Investments has made three key appointments as part of its ambitious growth strategy for 2017.

Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed a multi-million-pound payout to settle claims from shareholders who allege they were misled when they answered the bank's call for an injection of capital just before it needed a £45 billion taxpayer bailout in 2008.

Fiona McBain Scottish Friendly’s outgoing chief executive has taken a party short at both current and past UK governments for failing to do enough to encourage people to prepare adequately for their financial futures.

The Accounts Commission has criticised Falkirk Council for being “slow in grasping the nettle” of tackling major financial challenges ahead.

Eileen Blackburn Scottish laws on insolvency have been brought together for the first time in a generation as the new Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 comes into force today.

Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland have dropped dramatically after new Bank of England ‘stress tests’ revealed that even eight years on from the financial crisis the still 73 per cent taxpayer-owned bank is still short of the money it needs to survive another crash.

All of Scotland’s producers of new polymer bank notes have confirmed that their cash is free of any animal products.

More than one million of Britain’s high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) have been denied a loan or any form of credit over the past five years, according to new research commissioned by London-based bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS).

Ulster Bank is to repay €1.5 billion to its state-owned parent Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) this Wednesday.

Colin Welsh Head of international energy investment banking at Simmons & Co International, Colin Welsh, has announced his intention to step-down from his role at the firm.

House purchase approval numbers were 10 per cent lower last month than in October 2015 and the first ten months of 2016 were 4 per cent lower than in the same period last year, according to the British Bankers Associaton.

Ian Knott Africa’s oil and gas sector has the potential to be a source of much needed revenue for Scottish firms, according to a leading business and financial advisor.

A 57 year old man from Edinburgh has been jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to a complex investment fraud which accrued more than £18 million.

The British taxpayer’s stake in Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group now stands at 7.99 per cent.