SCOTLAND

The number of venture capital funds based in Scotland is greater than those based in any other region of the UK outside London and the South East... The Dunfermline Building Society was formed in 1869, which makes it the oldest building society in Scotland, as well as one of only two indigenous building societies... The first mutual savings bank, the Ruthwell Savings Bank, was founded in 1810 Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland by the Reverend Henry Duncan.