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Rod Ashley The boss of Britain’s last remaining independent savings bank has told a Holyrood committee that last month’s decision to close the 182 year-old institution was made to avoid a disorderly, regulator-led demise and the consequent impact on its thousands of customers.

Derek Mackay Finance secretary Derek Mackay is to announce support for business in the wake of an outcry relating to the Scottish Government’s business rate hikes.

Rod Ashley Rod Ashley, the chief executive of Airdrie Savings Bank, will today answer questions from MSPs over the demise of the 182-year-old, and last remaining UK independent savings bank.

Vince Smith-Hughes Retiring with debts outstanding is a problem that has started to grow again, according to new research by Prudential.

Scotcash has won a £300,000 grant from Virgin Money Foundation's Ripple Fund in order to expand into Edinburgh. Social enterprise Scotcash, which opened in Glasgow in 2007, offers a range of services to individuals in financial difficulty, including affordable loans, money advice and white goods pa

Peter Dylewski New measures to crackdown on abuse of a VAT simplification scheme may be ineffective and have unwelcome consequences for tax-compliant small businesses, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has warned.

Monica Houston Scottish employers are facing increased complexity and administrative costs following the recent decision by the Scottish Government on how it manages the ‘Apprenticeship Levy’ (AL), according to global business and financial advisor, Grant Thornton.

Scottish law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has recorded a busy 12 months in which the corporate team acted on over 72 deals spanning 12 sectors, including: energy and natural resources; media and technology; life sciences; and financial services. Collectively, the value of these deals amounted to £

Britain has given a vote of confidence to new ways to manage its money, as research reveals most of us are eager to see the next gadget or service aimed at making life easier.

Scotland’s top private firms have suffered a drop in combined profits amid a climate of growing political and economic uncertainty, according to Grant Thornton. The financial and business adviser’s annual Scotland Ltd report assesses the commercial performance, in the last year, of Scotland’s

Coutts & Co, the private bank owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, has been fined £5 million for allowing $2.4 billion worth of assets related to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd fund to flow through accounts in Switzerland.

Robert Kilgour and Cameron Graham A Scottish tech start-up whose disruptive software has been dubbed “the Facebook for care homes” has landed a five-figure investment from the original founder of Four Seasons Healthcare.

Sir Howard Davies Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced that it will not create a committee specifically designed to represent the interests of its shareholders.

The Financial Conduct Authority has today fined Deutsche Bank £163,076,224 for failing to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML) control framework in connection with a Russian money laundering scam.

Ken Patullo Businesses in Scotland saw a very mixed final quarter of 2016, according to data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor, with some sectors seeing improvements whilst other industries were battered by the uncertainty in the economy.