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A leaked Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report says RBS management "turned a blind eye" to failings in its scandal-hit Global Restructuring Group (GRG), the Mail on Sunday reports. The unpublished report is said to reveal that RBS management pressured staff members to squeeze companies for larger

Professor Graeme Roy A new policy foundation has announced a partnership with one of Scotland's foremost economic institutes, the Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde.

Kristofor Hall Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has promoted two key residential surveyors operating at either end of the M8 corridor.

Stuart Thomson and Susie Walker Accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its corporate tax team with a new senior appointment in the Central Belt.

Ally Scott EY’s corporate finance team in Scotland, led by partner Ally Scott, acted as lead advisors on the £30 million sale of two businesses by Perthshire-based entrepreneur Simon Howie.

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to shed nearly 160 employees as it closes a total of 62 branches across Scotland, it announced today. The announcement from the bank - which is still 72 per cent state-owned - comes just nine months after RBS's announcement of 30 branch closures.

James Will Thousands of Scottish Investment Trust investors, who hold around £183m of assets, are to be transferred, free of charge, to AJ Bell’s Youinvest platform.

Neil Francis The Scottish Government has announced the appointment of a team of trade envoys to champion international trading.

Patrick Mill Alliance Trust Savings chief executive Patrick Mill has announced he is leaving the platform after five years at its head.

Duncan Barrie Duncan Barrie, who leads the farm sales team from estate agent Galbraith’s National Farm Sales Centre in Stirling, reviews how a number of the more than 60 farms sold for a total of £65 million by the firm last year were sold in lots, with the farmhouse, buildings and an area of ame

Start-ups and small businesses in Glasgow are struggling to find suitable offices as a lack of small office suites threatens to hamper the future growth of these businesses in the city, estate agent Savills has warned.

Paul Johnston Glasgow-based private equity firm Maven Capital Partners has announced the opening of Hotel Indigo Cardiff, following its investment in the £17.5m 122-bed boutique development.

Jamie Younger Research commissioned by HMRC published in November appears favourably to reinforce the use of Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR) in succession planning, experts have said.

Richard Gardiner Dunfermline-based accountancy firm Thomson Cooper has been appointed liquidator at a Fife motor recovery firm which picked up crashed and stolen vehicles for the police.

Axion Building, Belvedere Buccleuch Property has completed a forward sale of its £11.3m Axion Building in Belvedere, London, to Orchard Street Investment Management, who were acting on behalf of St James’s Place.