Search: financial focus

Three of the five Scottish Parliament constituencies with the fastest growing business communities are in Edinburgh, new research has revealed.

New figures released today by the Office of National Statistics have revealed that Britain is almost half a trillion pounds poorer than it was originally believed.

The Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh, which charts the history of banking in Scotland, and explores the theme of money in all its shapes and forms, is being shut by Lloyds Bank Banking Group.

Nicky Morgan Nicky Morgan, chairwoman of the Treasury select committee, has taken another step to further ratchet up the pressure on the Financial Conduct Authority and Royal Bank of Scotland to disclose in full the watchdog’s now notorious leaked report into the conduct of RBS’s former small bu

Bruce Farquhar and Alistair Dean A new company, Alba Claims, launches this week aimed at helping Scottish businesses pursue commercial claims.

3 Lochside Way, Edinburgh Edinburgh’s office market looks set for another very strong year after a further 160,449 sq. ft. of city-centre stock was let during Q3 2017, according to commercial property consultants Knight Frank.

Businesses in the Highlands and Islands are being more cautious about investment in the desire to remain debt free, while many have reported increasing costs.

Hunter Insker Barclays has announced key appointments across its Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh and Glasgow business banking teams as it continues to extend its support for Scottish SMEs and scale-up businesses.

Philip Grant, treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, and Frances Simpson, chief executive of Support in Mind Scotland Bank of Scotland has announced plans to raise money for a mental health charity when the new £10 polymer note comes into circulation tomorrow.

Left to right: Nikola Piper, Joanna Blair (Flower Power), Richard Barron (Chairman of The Merchant Company Initiative Prize), Louis Moore, Pat Denzler (Master of The Merchant Company), Logan Ross, Meg Wishart, Alex Park, Katie Chapman and David Martin (Project Magale) A young entrepreneur aged fourt

Businesses could save a third by locating 100 staff in Edinburgh compared to London, according to analysis in Knight Frank’s 2018 Global Cities report.

The Scottish economy grew by 0.1 per cent during the second quarter of 2017, below the UK rate of 0.3 per cent, according to statistics announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.

Iain Fraser Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan, partners with FRP Advisory LLP, have been appointed after Aberdeen-based Xtreme Business Solutions Limited, a specialist supplier of cabling infrastructure and networked wireless systems and services, such as CCTV, was placed into administration.

Mark Houston Scots accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has leased an extra floor at its Glasgow premises following a period of rapid growth in the Central Belt.

A Scottish cemetery worker who admitted to illegally and callously selling non-existent burial plots in a "very unusual" scam has been jailed for 16 months.