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Edinburgh is the second cash richest city in the UK, with £16.9 billion in business bank accounts across the Scottish capital, according to new research.

Bruce Cartwright The accountancy body The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has urged the UK Government to secure a Brexit deal which is “significantly better” than the CETA agreement struck between Canada and the EU.

Kerry Sharp The Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, will today tell a group of high-profile international venture capital fund managers that Scotland is the UK’s most vibrant location for risk capital investment outside the ‘Golden Triangle’ of London, th

Scotland’s local authority spending watchdog has reported that East Renfrewshire remains a high-performing council but its councillors need to be more prominent in dealing with tough challenges ahead.

Commercial disputes specialist Philip Sewell has joined Scottish law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner, bringing 25 years’ experience to the firm’s Commercial Disputes and Regulation Division.

Jennifer White Jennifer White, a Glasgow-based solicitor with law firm bto talks us through the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill currently making its way through Parliament.

L-R: Adrienne Airlie, Chief Executive, David Cheetham, Director & Ewen Dyer, Managing Director, Martin Aitken & Co. Renfrewshire-based accountancy firm Cheetham & Co and Glasgow-based Martin Aitken & Co yesterday announced that they have merged with immediate effect.

The Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) has today released a new statistical report, ‘Higher Education Student Support in Scotland’ showing the increasing debt burden of Scottish students. The an annual report, details a range of statistics and information around the numbers of students receiv

Tom MacLennan Leading specialist wind turbine haulage businesses, West of Scotland Heavy Haulage Limited and its associated trading company, West of Scotland Storage Limited, have been placed in administration, with Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser, partners at FRP Advisory LLP appointed joint administ

Ian Wright of WRI Ian Wright of WRI Associates has been appointed provisional liquidator of troubled Scottish publisher Freight Books as a result of a court order issued last week.

Rail commuters to Scotland’s two biggest cities are typically financially better off catching the train into the city than living close to their place of work, according to new research by Bank of Scotland.

Alison Thewliss SNP Treasury spokesperson at Westminster Alison Thewliss MP has written to the Chancellor about the continuing lack of women at senior levels in the finance sector.

​Douglas Shand The companies involved in PwC and CodeBase’s SCALE initiative have been released as the ten-week series of events goes live.

Lenders and investors are continuing to help fund registered social landlords (RSLs) as they work towards the Scottish Government’s target of an extra 35,000 social rented houses by 2021, according to the Scottish Housing Regulator.