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Pete Wishart The UK parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee, chaired by Perth SNP MP Pete Wishart, has summoned Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Ross Ewan to appear before of MPs to explain the 73 per cent state-owned bank’s plan to close 62 of its branches throughout Scotland.

Sinclair Dunlop Third sector funder, Inspiring Scotland, has appointed Sinclair Dunlop of Epidarex Capital as chair of its Board of Trustees.

Tracy Black Tracy Black has officially taken up her role as the CBI’s new director for Scotland having shadowed the outgoing Hugh Aitken while deputy regional director as part of a planned succession process, the organisation has said.

David Martyn Former employees of defunct Scottish construction company Land Engineering Scotland have won a quarter million pound compensation award after they were made redundant last year with less than a day’s notice.

Glen Reynolds North-east councillors say they plan to buy shares in Royal Bank of Scotland in order to attend the financial giant’s AGM and directly question its chief executive over plans to close two local branches as their campaign to save them heats up.

Representatives from the HSBC People Experience Team present the new Kitten Scanner at the Imaging & Diagnostics Dept. at Glasgow Children's Hospital, with hospital patient Amelie Trotter. Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children has taken receipt of Scotland’s first revolutionary ‘Kitten Sca

Mark Northway Around 100 Royal Bank of Scotland investors have backed renewed plans for a shareholder committee to be established in order to improve the 73 per cent state-owned bank’s corporate governance.

Alasdair McKinnon The Scottish Investment Trust has reported that net asset value per share increased to 924.40 pence at October 31, from 854.90p at the same time the year before.

Andy Murray (Image: si.robi) Scottish tennis star and former two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has injected cash into two more UK tech start-ups as part of his strategic relationship with funding platform Seedrs.

Kirsten Lord CEO PhysioWizard PhysioMedics, the Scottish early stage company that has developed a revolutionary online self-assessment platform for muscle and joint pain sufferers, has raised a total of £1 million of funding from Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate, Archangels, with support fr

Pauline Hinchion Scottish Communities Finance Ltd – a new Community Benefit Society based in Edinburgh that aims to mobilise ordinary people across Scotland to reinvest in their communities – will launch today.

EU nationals working in Scotland contribute an average of £34,400 each to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – more than £4.4 billion a year – according to new data analysis.

Julie Scott-Gilroy Julie Scott-Gilroy, an associate at BTO Solicitors LLP, looks at how well the construction industry’s payment regime is working.