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The Scottish Government has announced measures to accelerate housebuilding via two new funds totalling £75 million.

Union Street, Aberdeen. Aberdeen’s hotel sector experienced its second successive monthly drop of over 40 per cent in year-on-year revenue in November, according to the latest report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has committed £1 billion of capital to support the development of thousands of new purpose-built private rental schemes across the UK. The still 73 per cent state-owned lender said that the funding, to take place over the next 12-18 months, is a sign of its recognition

Ewen Dyer welcomes Euan Ferries Glasgow chartered accountants and business advisers Martin Aitken & Co has appointed Euan Ferries to lead their corporate advisory team.

The Edinburgh-based travel website, Skyscanner, has secured major new investment to boost its global growth and push valuation above £1 billion. Five investor funds have backed Scotland's leading tech firm with £128m between them.

Ian Blackford The SNP has called on the UK Government to set up an independent commission to investigate how changes to the state pension will effect both men and women.

Graham Hunter The Glasgow-based football publishing company responsible for the autobiography of football icon Andrea Pirlo has raised more than £30,000 through a crowdfunding drive to help maintain and improve a popular football podcast.

Insurance policy art as designed by some of the UK’s leading illustrators. Banks, pension companies and insurers owe Brits an incredible £15 billion, which must be claimed if it is not to be lost forever and one firm has hit upon a novel idea to help British savers forgetting their cash -by turni

Royal Courts of Justice Lloyds Shareholder Action Group, the group of former Lloyds TSB shareholders who claim that HBOS was “grossly over-valued”at the time of its shotgun marriage with Lloyds in 2009, will have their case heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today.

Virgin Money, the challenger bank which employs 200 in Edinburgh, has reported a leap in mortgage lending in 2015 so far, with its share of the UK gross mortgage lending market at 3.5 per cent for the eight months to August. Virgin Money, which is headquartered in Newcastle, with operations in Edinb

Hunters Residential, the real estate and conveyancing arm of leading Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew, has seen sales rise 33 per cent in 2015 as the property market continues to improve. The estate agency, which operates across Edinburgh and surrounding areas, has seen the number of sales runn

The problem of late or slow payments continues to cause cashflow difficulties for businesses, and almost a third expect it will only get worse in the next six months, according to the latest in the Business in Britain series of reports from Lloyds Bank. The Edinburgh-based lender’s commercial bank

Clare Foster Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has become the first local authority in England to secure finance from the Edinburgh-based UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) to replace its existing street lights with lower energy alternatives.

More than 6,000 Scots students are among almost 32,000 students across the UK who are currently using payday loans to make ends meet. According to the Unite Students Insight Report: Finance, the number of Scottish students who are using the controversial loans, that can charge APR rates of up to 1,5

Ta-da! Pablo Picasso A Scottish artist may have discovered a painting by Pablo Picasso given to his mother by his Russian soldier father in the 1950s.