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Using credit cards to gamble is to be banned, according to the Gambling Commission.

The Scottish Government’s Building Scotland Fund (BSF) has topped £100 million of financial support for housing, regeneration and industrial and commercial developments throughout the country. (from left) Tim Griffin, Michael Laird Associates; Cameron Cook, Amber Infrastructure; Derek Ma

A London mansion set to be sold at £210 million is due to break Britain's house price record.

MHA Henderson Loggie has appointed Christine Rolland as director of its market-leading forensics business in Scotland. Set to be based in the firm’s Glasgow office, Ms Rolland's appointment marks a milestone in the expansion of the highly specialised business.

Bruce Stevenson, Scotland’s largest independent insurance broker, has welcomed record results as the company reported revenue of £7.6 million for the year to 31st August 2019. Bruce Stevenson, which is a chartered broker and a founding member of the industry UNA Alliance, now has 100 peo

Neil Norman, the head of Chiene + Tait’s (C+T) entrepreneurial tax team, has been appointed to the board of the global accountancy association AGN. Representing around 200 separate and independent accounting and advisory businesses in over 80 countries, AGN promotes worldwide expertise, best p

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed Aileen Mathieson as its new global head of insurance following the retirement of Stephen Acheson. In leading the Global Insurance team, Ms Mathieson will take responsibility for ASI’s global insurance remit in addition to her previous responsib

BGF experienced a year of growth across its Scottish portfolio in 2019, having invested more than £280 million to date to support the region’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. BGF is the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses which provides patient capital to smal

Business activity across Scotland's private sector was unchanged during December following growth in November, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed it will need at least another six months to investigate KPMG’s auditing of collapsed construction and services firm Carillion due to the scale and complexity of the case.

The Scottish Government has announced that its budget will be published on 6 February 2020. The announcement comes after the UK Government confirmed that its budget would be delayed until 11 March 2020.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has today unveiled a new £7 million programme to help support communities and organisations across Scotland. The Royal Bank 300 Fund has been set up to mark the bank’s 300th anniversary in 2027 and will see the bank invest £1m a year, for the next seven y

The Scottish Government has announced that enterprise projects in Dumfries and Galloway will receive a share of more than £500,000 from the South of Scotland Economic Partnership (SOSEP). This latest tranche of funding includes the following:

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has revealed that a total of 4,659 students completed their final exams to become ACCA affiliates during the last sitting of 2019. A total of 137,000 around the world entered over 173,000 exams.

Paul Rippon, the co-founder and deputy CEO of Monzo, is stepping down from his role to farm alpacas with his wife in Northumberland.