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Graeme Jones Scottish Financial Enterprise is partnering with The Prince’s Trust to help support young people to develop the skills and confidence they need to live, learn and earn.

Alison McGregor The Scottish Government has launched new practical guidance produced to help businesses identify and prevent human trafficking and exploitation across their operations.

Neil Amner Slowing investment in the Scottish economy highlights the need for Brexit certainty, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has said.

A man has been arrested in Russia after taking advantage of a local ATM which was wrongly filled with $100 notes. The unnamed man tried to withdraw 500 rubles - worth around £6 - from the machine but was given a $100 note instead.

Becoming an entrepreneur will be the subject of an exciting event next week for young professionals in the Borders. The Scottish Borders Young Professionals event, Inspire Your Inner Entrepreneur, will be held at Melrose Rugby Club on Wednesday 24 October, at 6pm and will feature some great business

Chris Arbuthnott Barclays has announced the appointment of Chris Arbuthnott as a director of wealth management in Scotland.

Name checks are to be undertaken when UK bank customers transfer money from next summer to deter rising bank fraud. Currently, if a person wants to send money they are asked for the recipient's account name, as well as number and sort code. However, the bank does not check if the name is correct.

Thomson Cooper Accountants will analyse the final pre-Brexit Budget at two seminars in Edinburgh and Dunfermline at the end of the month. The free events, in Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 October at 8am and in Dunfermline at 11am, are aimed at providing the business community with a concise commentary i

Blair Nimmo Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG have been appointed as joint administrators of First Furnishings Limited (FFL), a furniture company with premises in West Lothian and Glasgow.

A new direct route from Edinburgh to Boston will be introduced next summer, Edinburgh Airport has announced. The daily Delta Air Lines flight to Logan International Airport will come into operation from May 24 and will complement the airline’s existing daily New York-JFK route.

Scottish hipster brewer BrewDog has opened its first "cashless bar" in Canary Wharf, accepting Bitcoin payments in lieu of pounds sterling. The Aberdeenshire-based company said it plans to expand cashless and cryptocurrency payments to more of its venues in the future.

Nicholas Crapp The RBS Group has submitted a supportive response to the UK government's consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in England and Wales.

UK consumer confidence fell by three percentage points in the third quarter of 2018, down to -7 per cent after the previous quarter’s record level of confidence, according to the latest Deloitte Consumer Tracker.

Colin Dempster The third quarter of 2018 generated half of all profit warnings for Scottish listed companies this year, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings report.

With third-quarter corporate insolvency statistics to be published this week and likely to show a continued rise in the number of business failures in Scotland, Eileen Blackburn, head of restructuring and debt advisory at French Duncan, looks at what the trend can mean The first two quarters have se