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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.

Coll Murchison-MacDonald In just over 12 months it is expected that the first phase of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) project will come on stream and Scottish acountancy firm Saffery Champness is warning rural businesses to be ready.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £18.9 billion in January, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Demand for farmland in Scotland has further decreased, having now been declining for the last 24 months, according to the latest RICS / RAU Rural Land Market Survey.

Antonio Horta-Osario Lloyds Banking Group has today posted pre-tax profits for 2016, double that of the previous year.

New research from Bank of Scotland has concluded that first-time buyers in Scotland are on average £860 a year better off than those who rent.

Brian Milne French Duncan have been appointed administrators following the collapse of a Fife building firm.

John Anderson Scottish entrepreneurship and growth specialist John Anderson has been appointed to chair the investment arm of Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency, Homes for Good, as the business enters the next phase of an ambitious growth plan.

Fraser Nicol As part of a significant investment in its business technology consulting (BTC) practice, business advisers and accountants Scott-Moncrieff has appointed Fraser Nicol as partner to lead the BTC team.

Peter Fraser Office take-up in Glasgow and Edinburgh’s out-of-town markets were well above the five-year quarterly average in the final quarter of 2016, according to new figures released today.

Legal firm Pinsent Masons has joined with the British Banking Association to clear hurdles to the banking industry’s widespread adoption of cloud technology.

The aggregate total wealth of private households in Scotland has increased to £856.6 billion but the wealthiest 1 per cent of Scots now own more wealth than the bottom 50 per cent of households combined.