Tough CO₂ target ‘gives Scotland the edge’
The climate change bill will boost many industries but not everyone is as happy as Arnold Schwarzenner, writes Ian Fraser […]
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Fears for Kilmartin as Lloyds cracks down on debt
Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a radical restructuring of one of Scotland’s largest property developers, Kilmartin Holdings, amid fears that
SWIP looks safe as merger with London rival is dropped
Swip flies again after Lloyds scraps Insight merger plan The Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) has been given a reprieve
Coastal grid “needs cash injection”
Offshore energy projects around Scotland’s coast risk being strangled at birth unless the Scottish and UK governments invest £2.5 billion
Why did HBOS make risky loans?
A BBC News investigation has uncovered reckless lending at HBOS Corporate and some irregular loans at its ‘high risk’ unit
Don’t rule out all the risk, says Charlie McCreevy
European commissioner for internal market and services gives Reform Scotland spring lecture at Edinburgh Business School Charlie McCreevy, the European
How Scotland can get ahead
Economists and business lobby groups have traditionally had a love-hate relationship with Scotland’s bloated public sector. Most of the time,
Lawyers ponder the future as knife is wielded
Inside track on lawyers: Firms with a balanced portfolio will feel less pain when redundancy looms Scotland is often described
‘We’re missing the boat on the North Sea’
North Sea guru warns recession may devastate the industry Crisis is not a word that trips lightly off Sir Ian
John Swinney slams PFI legacy
John Swinney, Scotland’s finance minister, has warned that the cost of servicing private finance initiative (PFI) contracts will severely dent
Salmond demands Dunfermline Building Society review
The Scottish government has demanded that the Treasury gives a value-for-money assessment of its decision to break up Dunfermline building
Scottish Agenda: The Irish, not Obama, set the best example
The delicate art of handling recessions, which includes preserving a semblance of economic wellbeing without necessarily frightening the horses though
Dunfermline Building Society to be broken up and sold
Dunfermline Building Society is expected to become the latest Scottish financial institution to lose its independence when it is taken
£55m help for Dunfermline Building Society – if Treasury chips in
The Dunfermline Building Society (DBS) has lined up a £30m capital injection from the Building Societies Association over and above
Scottish Agenda: disgraced RBS pair bank on a comeback
The pair of knights who lead RBS to destruction now pursuing BP roles: Sir Peter Sutherland and Sir Tom McKillop:
Lord Turner’s review ‘flawed’ say academics
Dr Gavin Kretzschmar and Professor Alexander McNeil, both from Scottish universities, have criticisms of the FSA chairman’s report last week
Talks breakdown leaves SNP targeted over Dunfermline Building Society
The UK Treasury is abandoning Dunfermline Building Society (DBS) in its hour of need in order to embarrass the Scottish
Scottish Agenda: As going gets tough, auld enemies get cosy
THERE’S nothing like an economic crisis for persuading warring political factions to bury the hatchet. When Alex Salmond and John
Scottish Agenda: Intensive care will scar sick banks
Scotland’s banks: UKFI’s dangerous balancing act What a disgrace and a laughing stock Scotland’s banks have become. Having had the
£11m man: Huge bonuses for Matthew Greenburgh and other advisers on deal that brought RBS to its knees
Matthew Greenburgh and other investment bankers who engineered the catastrophic takeover deal that brought the Royal Bank of Scotland to
A wake for HBOS… and the birth of a new era?
Voodoo Club rises from banks’ ashes The scene was like that of a Jacobite conspiracy. Around 20 Scots from different