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Mark Prentice Hampden & Co, the UK’s newest private bank, has persuaded Mark Prentice to return to full time employment, having previously left his senior role in Lloyd’s Bank’s Corporate Banking function in Scotland to work freelance.

Kevin Ellis UK CEOs are more upbeat about the growth prospects for their own companies than 12 months ago, according to PwC’s 20th annual CEO Survey published at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Edinburgh-based global asset manager Standard Life Investments has today announced the launch in Europe of its MyFolio multi-manager SICAV funds.

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Holyrood’s Finance and Constitution Committee is to examine the Air Departure Tax Bill, it has been announced. The bill, introduced to Parliament will give the Scottish government the power to levy a tax on aircraft operators on the “carriage of passengers on flights that begin in Scotland”. T

Dundee-based fund manager Alliance Trust is to hold an extraordinary general meeting next month as a result of its proposed new asset management structure.

ESS operations director Mo Petrie, ESS managing director Mike Wilson, Handelsbanken corporate account manager Steven Rae. Ecosse Subsea Services (ESS) has agreed a multi-million-pound revolving credit facility with full service bank Handelsbanken.

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Nick Laird Business activity in Scotland returned to growth in the final month of 2016, supported by a slight increase in new order wins along with a rebound in job creation, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Regional Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).

Royal Bank of Scotland has come out bottom of a major customer satisfaction survey for the second-year running.

Nearly half (47 per cent) of small and medium-sized business (SME) owners claim the business advice they received in the last year from their mainstream bank had a negative impact on their business operations, according to new research, with one in six (16 per cent) of these suggesting their busine

110 Queen StreetGlasgow’s speculative office development pipeline remains closed with new developments now not likely until 2020, Savills has suggested. Uncertain economic and political conditions and a possible influx of buildings suitable for refurbishment coming back on to the market in the nex

Andrew Davidson Johnston Carmichael’s IT audit manager, Andrew Davidson, explains why password security is important

Brian Norton Students at Scottish universities are more financially savvy than their UK counterparts, according to new research.