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The Scottish economy grew by 0.3 per cent during the third quarter of 2018, according to statistics announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.

The Scottish Building Society has announced that Mark Thomson is stepping down from his role as chief executive after almost seven years. During his time with Scottish Building Society he has helped the Society embark on a significant change programme. This included growing the mortgage balance

Places for People, one of the largest housing associations in the UK, has secured £250 million of new funding with the assistance of HSBC to help deliver its business plan. Announcing the deal, the bank said it understood Places for People’s unique funding approach and agreed to fun

The median pay-out under both annual bonus and long-term incentive plans has increased for chief executives, according to KPMG’s latest guide to executive directors’ remuneration in FTSE 350 companies.

The first tranche of investments in a series of transformative projects in Edinburgh and South East Scotland have received approval as part of the City Region Deal. Combined funding of £384 million was approved on Monday by the City Region Deal’s Joint Committee for five projects aimed a

The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Santander £32,817,800 for failing to effectively process the accounts and investments of deceased customers. The City watchdog said it found that Santander did not transfer funds totalling over £183m to beneficiaries when it should have done

Research conducted by a top business school has finally confirmed what most of us probably already knew, after identifying a type of employee who manages to look busy and successful, without actually doing anything useful. The productivity study carried out by the Ashridge at Hult International Busi

The average price of a home in Scotland continued its upward trend in October 2018 to reach £151,508, according to Registers of Scotland.

With support of a £5 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland, Inveruie-based agriculture cooperative ANM Group, one of the largest producer-owned farming, food and finance business in Scotland, is expanding the Thainstone Business Park with the aim of becoming one of Aberdeen&rsqu

Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank and Edinburgh-based Hampden & Co have been named among eleven banks that are to receive a share of the £275 million incentivised switching scheme for SME customers established under the terms of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bail out agreement. Banking Competit

The Association of British Insurers has today published new analysis which shows that general insurance and long-term savings companies in the UK paid out £153 million every day in 2018, which throughout the year is more than the entire GDP of Croatia.

Lanarkshire food producer R&W Scott Ltd has undergone a management buy out led by the firm’s MD John Easton along with fellow directors Stephen Currie and Michael Hewitt. The business and assets have been purchased from its parent company, Real Good Food plc in a deal worth £4 m

After the UK Government published its White Paper on immigration yesterday, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland has demanded an urgent rethink, warning that the proposals will have a disproportionate impact on firms north of the border.

Demand for permanent professionals in Scotland rose by 38 per cent year-on-year to November 2018, according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

The Government must address the concerns of small businesses with the potential for a no-deal Brexit set to clash with the introduction of HMRC’s new online VAT system in April 2019, Making Tax Digital (MTD), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has warned. In ad