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Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of small businesses may be the “largest theft anywhere” the House of Commons heard during a debate held yesterday over the bank’s conduct towards business customers in the wake of the financial crisis.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it is offering a range of "flexible options" to support impacted small business customers in Carillion’s supply chain, providing payment holidays and assistance with their overdraft to help manage any short-term cashflow challenges in the wake of the cons

Bank of England bosses have written to High Street lenders calling on them to “remain vigilant” about the heightened risks linked to rising consumer debt levels.

Daryl Harper Accounting and CFO recruitment specialist iMultiply has increased its headcount in Scotland in response to rising client demand.

Investment in Scottish hotels in 2017 reached £195 million across 23 deals, marking more than a 60 per cent increase on the total investment volume recorded the year previously (£119.74m), according to new Savills research.

Scotland’s next generation of business leaders will benefit from entrepreneurial learning as Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Fellowship programme is delivered in Scotland for the first time by Strathclyde Business School.

The debut cohort of 19 Scottish businesses are welcomed to the new initiative by entrepreneur, Bob Keiller Scale-up Scotland, a programme delivered by Entrepreneurial Scotland to address Scotland’s business scale-up challenge and deliver economic growth, officially launched this week in Aberdeen s

2 Semple Street Edinburgh has surpassed the 1,000,000 sq ft take-up mark for the first time since 2004, with 1,138,500 sq ft of office space transactions across the four quarters of 2017, according to the latest research from CBRE Scotland.

Jim Halliday London-based private equity investors Ancala Midstream Acquisitions has completed its acquisition of American oil firm Apache’s interests in the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation (“SAGE”) System and the Beryl Gas Pipeline for an undisclosed sum.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has come under renewed fire today over the long-running scandal surrounding the conduct of its notorious Global Restructuring Group after The Treasury select committee published an internal memo in which RBS staff are told to let struggling businesses “hang thems

Dr Sandy Nairn Scottish fund management house Edinburgh Partners is to be bought by American investment giant Franklin Templeton.

Andrew Adams Corporate finance business Quayle Munro, which was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 before moving to London five years ago to focus on media and technology, has agreed to be acquired by global independent investment bank Houlihan Lokey.

Neil Amner Scottish firms continuing to display resilience in the face of economic uncertainty, according to the latest Scottish Chambers of Commerce’s Quarterly Economic Indicator survey.

(Left to right) Adam Hardie, head of food & drink at Johnston Carmichael, Steve Stewart, founder of Stewart Brewing, Stephen McGowan, partner - head of licensing (Scotland) at TLT LLP and Caroline Wengel, business development manager at TBAS, The Brewers' Association of Scotland (TBAS) has launc

The Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) has struck off an award-winning Borders accountant who was jailed for fraud after he illegally obtained almost £50,000 of taxpayers’ money.