‘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 […]
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Lothian pension lawsuit to go ahead
Lothian pension fund has been given permission by a US judge to continue its securities fraud case against Vodafone, the
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
Council pension fund suffers from exposure to RBS
Strathclyde pension fund’s deficit soars to £2.3bn due to exposure to toxic banks Strathclyde pension fund’s deficit has ballooned to
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
Baguette Express chain to create 2,000 jobs
A Haddington-based company has unveiled ambitious expansion plans that are expected to create 2,000 jobs across the UK. Baguette Express,
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
Turner’s review dangerously flawed
Last week I met two Edinburgh-based academics who specialise in finance and risk. They told me that, in their view,
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
Sir Steve Robson urged to quit FRC
Critics say the credibility of the Financial Reporting Council is affected, as Robson was among the purged RBS non-executive directors
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
‘Bling’ Crosby’s day of reckoning
This charade of apology is a diversion from bankers’ role in financial destruction Edith Piaf’s chanson “Non, Je Ne Regrette
HBOS misled investors over £4bn rights issue, says former executive
Call for probe into ‘favourable gloss’ in rights issue prospectus. By Ian Fraser A FORMER Bank of Scotland senior executive
That sinking feeling
Government hopes that its latest raft of measures would persuade banks to start lending to each other again – and
£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