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Jason McLeod ABL Business, the Yorkshire-based business support consultancy offering commercial finance and marketing support to SMEs, has expanded its team operating north of the border.

Gross mortgage borrowing of £12.4 billion was recorded in the UK for August, up 1 per cent on the same month last year, according to latest figures.

FTSE100 companies have set aside £31.3 billion in the last 12 months to meet legal claims – a 22 per cent increase from the £25.6 billion set aside in the previous year.

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), the economic regulator for the £75 trillion UK payment systems industry, has received a super-complaint from consumer watchdog Which? relating to concerns it has around consumer safeguards in the market for push payments.

Martin Gilbert Martin Gilbert, chief executive and founder of Aberdeen Asset Management, has said that he expects fund groups to be the least affected among the financial services industry by the long-term implications of Brexit.

Glasgow-based professional football team Celtic FC has announced it has turned around a loss of nearly £4 million posted last year to a £500,000 profit for the financial year ending on 30 June.

Scotland’s top prosecutors will press the case for stringent business compliance at an anti-bribery seminar in Aberdeen this week.

Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland took a hit over the weekend amid rising concerns that the still 73 per cent state-owned bank could be next in line for a massive multi-billion pound fine from US authorities after it emerged Deutsche Bank had been hit with a $14 billion penalty relating to pre-crisi

More than three million current account customers have ditched their old bank or building society and switched to a new one in the three years since a new service to take the hassle out of switching was launched.

Sir Nicholas Macpherson (Image: FT) The Board of The Scottish American Investment Company has appointed Sir Nicholas Macpherson as a non-executive Director.

Edinburgh-based Miller Homes has announced it plans to continue its “substantial” land investment programme after the firm unveiled a 66 per cent rise in interim profits.

Scotland’s rental culture is happier, friendlier and more settled than that south of the Border though it is still under threat from rental increases, according to new research.

The value of oil and gas produced in Scotland fell to its lowest level since 1999 last year, despite an increase in production.

Aberdeen Asset Management has been told by the Financial Conduct Authority to increase its capital buffers.