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Alison Rose, chief executive of RBS, has been appointed as chair of Business in the Community’s Scotland advisory board. Mr Rose has also joined Business in the Community’s board of trustees. Ms Rose has worked at RBS for 27 years. Prior to her current role as chief executive, she was de

Holyrood’s Finance and Constitution Committee has called upon the Scottish Government to adopt a more strategic approach to budgetary management.

A major review of how companies and auditors assess and report on the impact of climate change has been announced by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The watchdog will review the extent to which UK companies and auditors are responding to the impact of climate change on their business to ensur

It is "too early" to say if there has been a so-called Boris bounce or Brexit bounce in house prices, Scottish Building Society (SBS) has said. The average price of a house in Scotland increased 2.2 per cent to £151,603, according to the government’s UK House Price Index.

A review investigating how much senior management at Lloyds Banking Group knew about the HBOS Reading Scandal has been delayed for a year. Dame Linda Dobbs, who is conducting the review, has delayed the date for report the until the second half of 2020 or even later due to the volume of work involve

The substantial, long-term contribution to the Scottish economy of HFD Property Group’s new office development at 177 Bothwell Street in Glasgow has been outlined in an independent report. Carried out by economic and social research consultant EKOS, the economic impact research shows the new b

Royal Bank of Scotland Group has announced that it will change its name to NatWest Group later this year. The bank, which owns RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank, revealed the name change as it released its full-year results.

Independent Wealth Planners UK (IWP UK) has announced the acquisition of Scottish firm AGL Wealth Management as the company’s first office in the region. IWP, an investor in local IFA firms across the UK, has been working with the AGL management team for the past few months to complete the dea

Scottish bank customers are now playing almost £10 million per year to withdraw their own money from cash machines, according to new figures from Which?.

Global accountancy body ICAS has urged the UK Government to “learn from Canada” as it embarks on trade negotiations with the EU.

Scottish salmon farmers have warned that they face " huge unnecessary burdens" and a loss of market share under the UK government's plans for Brexit.

The Treasury has confirmed the appointment of Jeannette Lichner and Bernadette Conroy as non-executive directors to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) board. Ms Lichner and Ms Conrol will each serve three-year terms beginning on 1 April 2020 and 1 August 2020 respectively.

Nationwide is to repay customers after it failed to correctly warn them that they would be charged for entering an unarranged overdraft. The move comes after the building society was found to have broken Part 6 of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Retail Banking Market Investigatio

Law firm Murray Beith Murray has announced a number of internal promotions across its asset protection and property groups. Fraser Scott, who has been with Murray Beith Murray since 2015, has been promoted from senior solicitor to associate. He works in the firm’s asset protection group and sp

Scotland’s labour productivity, as measured by output per hour worked, has increased by 0.8% over the year to the third quarter of 2019, according to statistics announced today.