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A new digital academy launched by Bank of Scotland aims to help people, businesses and charities across Scotland boost their essential skills. The free academy includes live training sessions as well as videos, interactive webpages and guides that can be accessed on demand at any time.

Impact Solutions, a Grangemouth-based provider of technical testing and analysis, has acquired a new facility in Livingston to help transform its operations with the help of a £1.19 million loan from Bank of Scotland.

Business confidence in Scotland rose six points during May to 15%, the highest reading since February 2020, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking. Companies in Scotland reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up five po

A year on from the launch of the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), almost one in three (29%) small and medium-sized businesses who took out a loan are not aware of the Pay As You Grow (PAYG) options, according to research by Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Bank. Through the government’s PAYG schem

Business confidence in Scotland rose 11 points during April to 9%, the first positive reading since February 2020, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking.

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group has posted £1.9 billion of pre-tax profits for the first quarter of this year, as the group released some of the provisions it had made for potential loan losses after the coronavirus outbreak. The bank released £459m from its cash reserve

Cumbernauld-based housing developer McKernan Homes has secured a £1.93 million funding package from Bank of Scotland to help build a new eco-friendly development in Dennistoun, East Glasgow.

Carbon emissions in Scotland dropped by 13% during the pandemic compared to the year before, according to an analysis compiled by Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group in partnership with the Carbon Trust. The analysis considered the impact on carbon emissions resulting from changing consumer

Business confidence in Scotland rose 15 points during March to -2%, the highest reading since March 2020, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking.

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group has delivered £9 billion to the UK's social housing sector in three years. Since 2018, the bank has provided £9bn of funding to the UK’s social housing sector, outstripping its original £2.25bn funding commitment by £6.75bn ov

Scottish SMEs are calling on the Chancellor to announce an extension to the furlough scheme when he delivers his Budget today, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland’s Business Barometer research. When asked which initiative would be most beneficial to helping their firm trade this

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group has resumed dividend payments despite reporting a 72% drop in profits. For the year ended 31 December 2020, the bank's profits dropped to £1.2 billion, down from £4.39bn last year. Lloyds Banking Group has also allocated £4.bn to cover fu

North Star Shipping, Britain’s largest offshore emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV) operator, has secured a new £40 million finance package from Bank of Scotland as it pursues growth in its North Sea operations. The term loan and revolving credit facility puts in place long term

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has written to Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group over its breaches of the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) Market Investigation Order 2011 which the CMA were notified about in September last year. The notification came seven years after the ban

First-time buyer transactions bounced back strongly in the second half of 2020, up 69% from 89,6000 in H1 to 16,226 in H2 once the housing market reopened, according to the latest figures released by Bank of Scotland.