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Keith Skeoch Standard Life chief executive Keith Skeoch has revealed that he is ready to sell-off the Edinburgh insurance giant’s £16.1 billion annuity book once shareholders have rubber-stamped its mega merger with Aberdeen Asset Management.

Jenny Laing Cash-strapped Aberdeen City Council is taking steps to reduce the risk of its £370million bond by recruiting a team of financial monitoring experts.

Scott Ritchie Hostel company Safestay plc has completed an £18.4 million debt restructuring and refinancing with HSBC.

The brewer also last week opened the latest and biggest so far of its Beer Kitchen gastropubs in Glasgow's Aston Lane. With over 50 per cent sales growth, an injection of equity investment and a stated objective of doubling turnover by 2020, Edinburgh-based craft brewer Innis & Gunn has announce

Ross McEwan The heat is being turned up on bosses at Royal Bank of Scotland ahead of the lender’s AGM next week after two more investor advisory firms joined calls for shareholders to reject the board’s remuneration policy.

David Walker By David Walker, managing partner at Thompson Cooper Accountants

Gordon MacLure Gordon MacLure, restructuring partner at Johnston Carmichael, has been appointed interim liquidator of Scotland Electronics (International) Limited.

Steven Jansch By Steven Jansch, Partner and head of insolvency at Gilson Gray solicitors

Tracey Black The CBI has appointed Tracy Black as its new deputy director in Scotland.

The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has shrugged off Brexit related fears with an improved performance in the last 12 months, according research from Chartered Accountants UHY Hacker Young.

Mike Timmins The London IPO market has seen a slow but steady start to the year as a result of some businesses waiting on the sidelines for more clarity around the triggering of Article 50 and political personnel changes in the US, according to the latest issue of EY’s IPO Eye.

Helen Cook Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced the appointment of Helen Cook to the role of Chief HR Officer.

David Melhuish Official figures released by Revenue Scotland and analysed by the Scottish Property Federation (SPF) have revealed that the Scottish Government’s Land and Building Transaction Tax (LBTT) returns for February 2017 generated the lowest LBTT revenue of any other month in 2016/17.

Caroline Gardiner The Scottish Government has been called on by its financial watchdog to gain a “clearer picture” of what the changes will cost and how staffing challenges will be addressed in the next stage of financial devolution.

James Andersen One of Scotland’s leading business growth advisors is warning the country’s property and construction sector faces a critical period as uncertainty over Brexit and a potential second Scottish independence referendum take its toll.