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Campbell Dallas has assisted fast-growing East Kilbride-based creator of bespoke booking systems Traveltek, in securing £5.3 million in funding from the specialist private equity fund manager, YFM Equity Partners (YFM), to help finance a major global expansion programme.

Parents in Scotland are willing to pay an average £80,000 more to live in the catchment area of a top performing state school, according to new research from Bank of Scotland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjHf67IxQSc&feature=youtu.be An American bank which has no branches and whose customers handle their banking affairs entirely online has placed ‘Lucky Pennies’ worth $1,000 each in 10 cities around the country.

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.