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Spanish-owned banking giant Santander UK, which this month announced that it is to close 140 of its British branches, has announced plans to compensate mistreated credit card customers to the tune of £58 million.

Lower income households are at least half as likely to invest as those in higher managerial positions, raising fears of a growing wealth gap, research from Scottish Friendly reveals.

Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary NatWest has today announced that it is to establish a million pound Data Academy that aims to train 1000 staff in its first year alone in how best to understand and harness data.

Some victims of pension scams have lost more than £1 million in savings each to fraudsters, new statistics have revealed. Intelligence gathered by members of the multi-agency Project Bloom group, which was set up to tackle pension scams, has found some people who had managed to put away more t

The pilot of Scotland’s new Fintech Skills Academy initiative, announced in September last year, has been hailed as a success.

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.