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Paul Mason Paul Mason, head of corporate finance at Chiene + Tait, talks us through what he says is a resurgent investment climate for SMEs

Graham Sharp Scotland’s local authority spending watchdog has praised Fife Council for delivering improvements and tackling aspects of underperformance head on.

Colin Slater Scotland has Britain’s best compliance record with data protection laws and is amongst the best in the UK, with just 1.9 per cent of the total £4.2m in fines being issued north of the Border.

It may be taboo to talk about money with friends and family but when it comes to your bank it’s a different matter, with today’s social media savvy consumer taking advantage of more banking webchat services than ever before, according to the latest research from UK Finance.

Nearly eight out of ten public sector contracts in Scotland are now awarded to small and medium businesses, 13,500 of which were Scottish, new data has shown.

David Alexander, Managing Director of D J Alexander UK buy-to-let (BTL) landlords need to act immediately to prevent them facing losses in the near future, according to a leading Edinburgh-based property management firm.

Rachel Reeves A Parliamentary report produced in the wake of the collapse of construction giant Carillion has said the UK’s Big Four accountancy firms should be broken up due to their role in a "rotten corporate culture".

CYBG, owner of Clydesdale Bank, has announced its plans for a new head office, based in Glasgow, after signing a lease on office space to be built on Bothwell Street.

Stephen Ingledew, chief executive Fintech Scotland (left) and, Kent Mackenzie of Deloitte FinTech Scotland, the body established by the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, The University of Edinburgh, HSBC, Avaloq and Lloyds Banking Group to make Scotland a top five global fintech centre by 20

Clyde Valley director of finance, Shirley MacDonald Clyde Valley Housing Association (CVHA) has secured a £70 million Private Placement deal with Canada Life to support the delivery of 700 new homes across Lanarkshire for social rent.

An innovative new team of fraud-fighters has already frozen £1 million from con artists trying to trick people known as ‘money mules’ into receiving and transferring cash.

China’s Ambassador to the UK has invited Scottish business to “roll up its sleeves and get down to business” in order to profit from China’s ongoing transformation from “high speed growth to high quality growth”.

People and businesses in Scotland are still heavily reliant on free-to-use ATMs, as changes to the LINK network threaten to cut off free access to cash for thousands of people across the country, Which? research has found.

Just under half (43 per cent) of 'Empty Nesters' in Scotland say they are not considering downsizing to a smaller property despite their children having ‘flown the nest’, according to the latest research from Bank of Scotland.

With increasing numbers now working past traditional retirement ages, stopping work can seem a long way off, especially for younger people, but new research from Prudential has revealed that the early retirement dream lives on, with nearly two thirds (60 per cent) of those stopping work this year a