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Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank has emerged as the latest suitor for the 300 Royal Bank of Scotland branches that the still 73 per cent state-owned lender must sell-off to comply with the EU-imposed conditions of its £45 billion taxpayer bailout in 2008.

Scottish manufacturers have reported a decline in orders during the third quarter of the year.

Ken Patullo Scottish firms saw levels of ‘critical’ business distress, the most serious signs that indicate the early onset of financial problems, fall ahead of the UK average in the last three months, according to data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor.

The days of Scottish commuters scrambling around for change for the bus could be over after Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach announced that it is to adopt a contactless payment system on all of its regional bus services.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £20.5 billion in September, according to latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Unemployment in Scotland fell by 25,000 over the summer, according to the latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Only four percent of decrees and judgments relating to debt in Scotland were marked as satisfied in the third quarter of 2016, compared with 15 percent in England and Wales, according to figures from Registry Trust released today.

House prices in Scotland have fallen for the second quarter in a row, latest figures have revealed.

The business rates system in Scotland should aim to reflect economic reality and maximise investment, according to CBI Scotland's response to the Independent Review of Scottish Business Rates.

Jeremy Peat Leading Scottish academics have warned that the UK government’s decision to pursue a “hard Brexit” in order to secure a limitation on immigration at the cost of access to the European single market has left Scotland and the UK’s future economic prospects “bleak”.

David Lonsdale By David Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium

Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford’s Japan Trust has posted a strong set of results for the last financial year on the back of an appreciating yen and depreciating pound.

Anthony Harbinson The first Manifesto for Fighting Economic Crime highlighting four key public policy areas for improvement to the effectiveness and capabilities of anti-money laundering (AML) in the UK has been published today by CCAB, the collective of five accountancy bodies - ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA,

Robert Nixon By Robert Nixon, head of residential letting, Speirs Gumley

Renting out property on Airbnb or selling second-hand goods on sites like eBay and Gumtree could land people in hot water with the taxman, unless they check whether they need to register for Self Assessment (deadline to register is this Wednesday 5th October) - according to Edinburgh-based online a