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Edinburgh has topped Colliers International’s latest UK Hotels Market Index, moving up four places in 2017 from the previous year, with its high position mainly attributed to strong occupancy levels and average daily rate (ADR) growth in 2017, resulting in a four-year upward RevPAR trend, combine

A £186 million revenue budget for 2018/19 and eight-year £237m capital programme 2018/19-2025/26 have been agreed as councillors approved spending plans for South Ayrshire.

Back Row L-R: Theodore W Long Jnr Chairman NASBA; Ross Allen, British Director of International Trade (US) and Deputy Consul General in New York. Front Row L-R: Ken L Bishop President and CEO of NASBA, Anton Colella CEO of ICAS, Barry C Melancon President and CEO AICPA ICAS and US accountancy bodies

Stuart Robb (centre) and the Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group Glasgow team Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group has celebrated a successful start for the business in Glasgow with the expansion of its team in the city.

Stuart Brown An Aberdeen veterinarian has secured funding from Barclays to diversify into property development.

Edinbrugh-based Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has revealed that it plans to establish an investment and distribution business in Dublin, subject to regulatory approval, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today imposed a fine of £1,976,000 on credit card lender, Vanquis, for failing to disclose the full price of an add-on product, called Repayment Option Plan (ROP).

Theresa Sharp Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has appointed two new investment managers, as it continues to grow its investments in charities and social enterprises.

Gordon McArthur Renfrewshire-based fintech firm Beeks Financial Cloud has doubled its underlying profits after posting £0.28 million pre tax profit for the six months to 31 December, up from the £0.13 million registered for the same period in 2016.

Royal Bank of Scotland has launched a pioneering new service, available to support telephone and branch banking, which makes it possible for deaf customers to communicate with staff at its Ulster Bank subsidiary with the help of a video-link to an interpreter.

Police Scotland has today issued a warning to the public to be alert after a recent spate of telephone scams saw businesses and individuals across the country scammed out of £7 million.

Graeme Finnie Almost three quarters (70 per cent) of Scottish businesses want to remain in the Customs Union and the single market (64 per cent in the rest of the UK), according to a new survey by HLB International Accountancy Network, of which French Duncan LLP is the Scottish member.

Royal Bank of Scotland has been forced into backing down on previous denials and issued a “sincere apology” after admitting its staff had indeed forged a customer’s signature in order to take more money from them.

A state-backed investment bank should be set up to plug the shortfall in lending to small and medium-sized businesses and help tackle the challenge of poor productivity in the UK, report produced by a Civitas has urged today.

Scottish Labour has demanded a full review of the decision by LINK to change how free ATMs are funded, saying the proposal could create a "cash machine desert" particularly in deprived areas.