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Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust's annual results for the 12 months to 30th of September 2019 has revealed that the Net Asset Value total return for the year was -10.8%, share price total return was -15.1% against the FTSE All-Share Index total return of 2.7%. However, the results have also hig

Paul Denton, chief executive of Scottish Building Society, has detailed the society's commitment to open branches despite continuous cuts imposed by mainstream banks. Mr Denton said that the Scottish Building Society will officially open its newest branch on Glasgow’s Queen Street on Friday.

The first tranche of Virgin Money branches will open next month as the company phases out the Glasgow-headquartered Clydesdale Bank brand. CYBG will open its new Virgin money stores in Manchester, Birmingham and London in December.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) private placement debt team has lent £65 million to the City of London Corporation. The investment was undertaken on behalf of life insurance companies within the Phoenix Group.

Understanding the complex UK tax system is hard as it is, but when you layer on the interaction with the devolved administrations, the task gets even harder for Scottish voters. RSM’s Shirley McIntosh unpicks the manifesto claims with a Scottish lens. We have often mentioned the complexity of

John Cowan, a retail expert working with Business Gateway, discusses the reality of the retail market and the opportunities on offer to small businesses. Retailers across Scotland have recently been bombarded with a lot of doom and gloom, proclaiming the death of the high street. However, when takin

Aberdeen New India Investment Trust has posted its interim results for the six months to 30th of September, highlighting slight growth for the trust. The company’s net asset value (“NAV”) rose by 6.1%, while the share price rose by 7.2% (both figures in sterling total return terms)

New analysis from Which? reveals that banks suffer five IT failures every week, shutting millions of customers out of accounts and making payments.

Business confidence within the oil and gas sector has increased with 43% of contractors reporting a rise in production activity, up from 28% 12 months ago, according to the 31st Oil & Gas survey conducted by Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce. The survey of 90 UK firms employing ar

A five-figure funding package provided by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has enabled fire safety and risk management company, Robert Richards Associates Limited, to expand its business offering. Based in Loanhead, Midlothian, the company provides a range of specialist training courses and risk as

Spktral, the cloud-based technology company that helps organisations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process and improve their diversity and inclusion profile, has announced the completion of a seed investment round. Funding was provided by a group of investors including Paul Atkinson, non-exe

DWF's Scottish corporate team have advised the majority shareholders of Partick Thistle Football Club Limited on the sale of around 55% of the shares in Partick Thistle to Three Black Cats Limited. Three Black Cats Limited is a company wholly owned by Partick Thistle fan and Euromillions winner, Col

American Express has collaborated with life insurance company Vitality to create a credit card which rewards UK customers for being physically active.

Economic growth in Scotland will remain subdued in 2019 and 2020, but slightly ahead of the UK overall this year, according to PwC’s latest UK Economic Outlook. The report projects growth of 1.3% in Scotland this year, down 0.3 percentage points from July’s projection, but ahead of the 1

A Scottish Property Federation (SPF) analysis of the latest commercial property sales figures has shown a rebound in the total value of sales in Scotland in Q3 (July to September) 2019.