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Santander has removed itself from the shortlisted lenders vying for a share of the £275 million incentivised switching scheme for SME customers established under the terms of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bail out agreement.

The Premier League and its clubs supported close to 100,000 jobs as well as contributing £7.6 billion to UK Gross Domestic Product last year, new data from EY has revealed today.

During Q4 2018, growth in workloads within the Scottish commercial and industrial segments declined with a net balance of -14 and -7 per cent of respondents reporting a drop in activity, respectively, according to the results of the Q4 2018 RICS Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey. However

A leading Scottish insolvency expert has expressed her "great concern" after latest figures showed the number of Scottish firms that failed last year rose 21.2 per cent - to their highest level since 2012. According to analysis of the latest Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) figures by accountants

Glasgow city centre office space take-up in 2018 totalled 970,845 sq ft, up 52 per cent on the on the 2017 figure of 635,015 sq ft and the highest level since 2006.

Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Bank of Scotland, has pledged to support UK businesses this year with a commitment to lend £18 billion to firms in 2019. In a move that it said was part of the group’s "continued commitment to help Britain prosper", Lloyds said the announcement "under

A survey of 1,000 working British people, carried out by Edinburgh-based cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent, has found that 8 per cent intend to start their own business within the year of 2019.

The average price of a property in Scotland in November 2018 was £150,638 – an increase of 2.9 per cent on November in the previous year and a decrease of 0.7 per cent when compared to the previous month.

A new specialist dementia unit, Murray House, has officially opened in Kelso following a £4 million fundraising campaign and a £2.1 million finance package from Royal Bank of Scotland. The 18-bed state-of-the-art facility is situated on land adjacent to Queen’s House care home, whi

A Lloyds worker has narrowly avoided jail after claiming he was coerced by criminals operating on the "dark web" to embezzle £75,000 from his employer.

A no-deal Brexit would have “profound” economic consequences the UK economy, with GDP shrinking by up to 8 per cent and thousands of jobs being put at risk, the head of the Confederation of British Industry is to warn today. However, the industry body says UK businesses believe that

After announcing an agreement in principle for the strategic joint venture on last March, Virgin Money and Aberdeen Standard Investments have today confirmed that they have signed a conditional agreement for the sale by Virgin Money to ASI of 50 per cent (less one share) of VMUTM and agreed the key

Nine estate agents have gone bust every week since 2010, according to an Edinburgh-based property management firm. DJ Alexander Ltd, one of the UK’s largest family-run property management businesses, has analysed official data and found that 4,258 estate agency businesses have gone bust since

Following news this week that his company has just become the most valuable in the world, it has now emerged that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is to split from his wife in what is being suggested could result in the biggest divorce settlement in history.

Growth or value? That has been the question on many investors’ minds as markets took a turbulent turn through the autumn months. They represent the two main schools of thought when it comes to investing and investors often try to lump stocks into one or other of the two categories. Of course,