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Geoff Jacobs Businesses across the north of Scotland should continue to focus on their contingency plans amid the financial uncertainty that has flowed from the prolonged oil and gas downturn, according to professional services firm KPMG.

Stella Panu Glasgow-based private equity house Maven Capital Partners has today announced its exit from Regent Pacific Group, delivering a 9x return on funds invested.

Queen Street, Leicester. Aberdeen Asset Management has acquired Queen Street Apartments in Leicester, a development compromising 232 rented apartments, a large car park, swimming pool, gym and sauna in the firm’s latest expansion into the UK Private Rented Sector (PRS).

In a speech to Liverpool University last night, Bank of England chief Mark Carney estimated that up to 15 million of the current jobs in Britain could be automated over time, with whole professions—including accounting—eliminated.

Chris Gauld. CEO of Spark Energy and James Milne CBE. Chairman and MD of Balmoral Group with their awards. (Picture: to Robert Perry) James Milne CBE, chairman and managing director of Balmoral Group, has been named Scotland’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’.

Cat MacLean By leading commercial lawyer Cat McLean of MBM Commercial

Edinburgh-based fantasy sports technology company FanDuel has announced is to merge with Amercian competitor, Boston-based DraftKings.

Nick Laird October survey data collected by Bank of Scotland pointed to a slower expansion of Scotland’s private sector. Output growth weakened, new business levels stagnated and volumes of incomplete work deteriorated while costs soared.

EU law does not preclude an increase in the share capital of a bank without the agreement of the general meeting of the shareholders in a situation where there is a serious disturbance of the economy and the financial system of a member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ru

The High Court of England and Wales has today decided that the UK government does not have the legal authority to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (by which a member state gives notice of its intention to leave the EU) without first getting the approval of Parliament. The governmen

Scottish tennis superstar and world number two, Andy Murray has made two further investments in British tech businesses on Seedrs.

A Scottish accountant who was banned from being a company director after he paid trade creditors but not the taxman when his construction industry business went into liquidation in has failed in an appeal against his three-year disqualification.

Iain McDougall By Iain McDougall, Senior Solicitor at MBM Commercial

Aberdeen Asset Management’s South American fund has reported better-than-expected assets under management in its third quarter results as the enterprise benefited from the weakened position of sterling.

Liz Cameron The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has proposed a comprehensive package of reforms aimed at delivering what it has described as "long overdue improvements" to Scotland’s business rates regime.