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Sebastian Burnside Permanent staff placements increased sharply during July, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs for Scotland.

Recent changes to the tax treatment of buy-to-let investments, as well as the introduction of new regulations by the Prudential Regulation Authority affecting portfolio landlords, has led to over half (53 per cent) of Scottish high net worth investors no longer viewing property as a good investment

Professor Lorne Crerar (left) and Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has marked its 30th year in business by announcing record profits in its most recent financial year – its seventh consecutive year of profit growth.

Iain Mackay (Image courtesy of HSBC) Big pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline has announced the appointment of Aberdeen-trained Iain Mackay as its next chief financial officer (CFO).

An enterprising businessman is cleaning up at this year's Edinburgh Festival where he is currently flogging 250 rolls a day of toilet paper with Donald Trump’s face printed on it.

Impact First, the ‘profit with purpose’ fund launched by social impact investor SIS Ventures, has secured 50 per cent of target capital commitments within the first two months of launch.

John McGrane The British Irish Chamber of Commerce today called for the establishment of an EU-wide Brexit Mitigation Fund for industries and regions negatively impacted by Brexit and urged the government to step up its efforts to protect the economy against the worst impacts of the UK’s withdrawa

Deborah Newberry The UK risks a nightmare ‘no deal’ scenario if political progress cannot be made, says global law firm Kennedys in its latest insurance industry report, which identifies six post-Brexit requirements for the market to secure following the announcement of the implementation period

Simon Rubinsohn Latest figures have revealed a continuing shift in Scotland's Buy-to-Let market in the wake of tax changes which are still in the process of being implemented, as smaller scale landlords exit the sector, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has reported.

Peter Manson (centre) receives the Caithness Glass Trophy with Morag Matson - the programme lead for the Accounting and Finance course at RGU, and John Black of AAB Independent firm of Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors Anderson Anderson & Brown, sponsors of the Robert Gordon Universi

Agnew Stewart Movement in Edinburgh accounted for just under a quarter of all office investment activity in the UK regions from April-June this year, new research has revealed.

An additional £5 million has been made available to the supply chain in Scotland to help maximise the economic benefit from the decommissioning of North Sea infrastructure.

Steven Cameron The majority of people now working in the UK would prefer to take a flexible approach to retirement, rather than stopping work at state pension age, Edinburgh-based insurance firm Aegon UK has reported.

A Scottish fisherman’s ploy to get a free lift home from police by claiming he’d been assaulted has ended up costing him a £500 fine instead.

John Schorah Law firm Weightmans LLP has reported increased turnover and a drop in profits in the latest financial year.