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Alison Bryce (pictured) outlines a new EU regime set to overhaul data protection.

The strong performance of Scotland’s pubs and restaurants has carried over from the start of the year, according to research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Stephanie Baynham Stephanie Baynham, senior solicitor in MacRoberts' Glasgow office analyses the pros and cons of innovative 'mini bonds'

John Hawksworth Real consumer spending growth will moderate from around 3 per cent in 2016 to around 2 per cent in 2017 and 1.7 per cent in 2018, according to PwC’s latest analysis, which says the impact of Brexit on consumers will also vary by category of spending.

There is now £721 billion of “dead money” sitting in the bank accounts and ISAs belonging to British adults, according to research.

Hiring confidence has dived in London and Scotland, the two strongest remain-supporting regions of the UK, on the back of Brexit uncertainty, according to global workforce experts ManpowerGroup.

Kent Mackenzie Deloitte is to host Scotland’s first-ever Datathon over two days this month as part of the DataFest17 festival.

Ross Caldwell Scottish law firm Morton Fraser has enhanced its business banking expertise and links to the City of London with the appointment of Ross Caldwell as partner. Mr Caldwell joins the firm’s banking & asset finance team, bringing the firm's total number of partners to 44.Mr Caldwell

Despite a generally healthy attitude towards cash savings, one in five Brits (18 per cent) expect to have less than £2,500 in cash savings when they retire - equivalent to the average monthly wage before tax.

Douglas Barnett Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has announced that one of the country’s most senior former police officers is to be its new chair.

The Bank of England's newly appointed deputy governor for markets and banking has admitted breaching the Bank's guidelines – even though she helped to write them - by not disclosing that her brother works for Barclays.

L-R Kirsty Lawrence, Mhairi Beedie, Lauren Thomson, Holly Anderson, Raemond Jappy A third of the recipients of a bursary award established by Johnston Carmichael to support accountancy students from the University of Aberdeen, have secured jobs with the firm, it has emerged.

Martin Gilbert Workers at Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life are this morning thrashing out the details of a merger deal with counterparts at Aberdeen Asset Management that will see Scotland become home to the biggest asset management firm in the UK and the second largest in Europe.

Allia has issued its ninth bond for Scotland, taking the total invested by the Scottish Government in Allia bonds to over £54 million.

Glasgow is one step closer to becoming the first British city to run a universal basic income trial, after the city's council bosses agreed a partnership with the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce to look at how an experiment might work.