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Nearly eight out of ten public sector contracts in Scotland are now awarded to small and medium businesses, 13,500 of which were Scottish, new data has shown.

With the domestic football season mostly drawing to a close over the weekend, thoughts will now be turning to the rapidly approaching World Cup in Russia, and UBS has wasted no time in delving into the prediction game.

Rachel Reeves A Parliamentary report produced in the wake of the collapse of construction giant Carillion has said the UK’s Big Four accountancy firms should be broken up due to their role in a "rotten corporate culture".

CYBG, owner of Clydesdale Bank, has announced its plans for a new head office, based in Glasgow, after signing a lease on office space to be built on Bothwell Street.

Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn The number of unemployed people in Scotland fell by 6,000 between January and March to 118,000, according to official figures.

Ally Scott EY’s transaction advisory services (TAS) team in Scotland has acted as exclusive M&A advisor to the shareholders of QTS Group Limited, a specialist independent rail contractor which is to be sold in an £80 million deal after it was established by managing director Alan McLeish in 1

House prices continue to increase across Scotland, as prices at a national level start to dip, according to the April 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

A shortage of property in Edinburgh is continuing to drive up demand for housing, according to a new ESPC house price report.

Folk in the land of the brave are apparently anything but when it comes to asking for a refund - after Scots were found to be the least likely nationwide to ask for their money back if they received bad customer service or a sub-standard product.

Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Money CEO Jayne-Anne Gadhia Virgin Money, which is headquartered in Newcastle but employs 200 at its Edinburgh hub in the capital’s St Andrew Square, has hailed a “strong” performance at the start of the year as it posted rising mortgage lending and better-than-e

The Bank of England has reported that mortgage approvals for house purchases fell back to a 2018-low in March and were at the second lowest level (after December 2017) since August 2016.

Doug Gurr Scotland’s SMEs expect revenue growth over the coming year to accelerate despite expecting business conditions to deteriorate.

A struggling construction sector was revealed to be exacting a downward pull on overall growth UK GDP figures for the first quarter of 2018 released today by the Office for National Statistics show that UK GDP grew by 0.1 per cent over the period, the slowest growth observed since the fourth quarter

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has this morning reported a profit of £792 million for the first three months of 2018 year, up from the £259 million logged for the same quarter last year.

Tim Cooper The number of corporate insolvencies in Scotland rose by 28 per cent during the first three months of this year compared with the final quarter of 2017 and rose by 67 per cent compared with Q4 2016-17 (January-March 2017), according to latest data.