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Stephen Webster Well-intentioned financial regulation puts jobs and investment outcomes at risk, says Stephen Webster, chief executive of Thorntons Investments

New designs for the first purpose-built music venue to be developed in Edinburgh for a century have been unveiled.

David Melhuish The latest analysis of commercial property sales across Scotland by the Scottish Property Federation (SPF) reflects a shift in fortunes for the nation’s major cities over the three months from April to June 2018, the organisation has said.

Jamie Hepburn The proportion of young people in Scotland in education, training or employment has increased to a record 91.8 per cent, a 0.7 percentage point increase over the last year.

Stuart Brown Regional winners of the prestigious Barclays Entrepreneur Awards, which celebrate the success of businesses in Scotland and across the UK, have been revealed.

Four in five executives around the world (84 per cent) have blockchain initiatives underway1, with a quarter of these (25 per cent) having fully live blockchain implementations or pilot projects running.

Steve Williams Deloitte has increased its revenue by 5.9 per cent in the financial year ended 31 May 2018, from £3,380m to £3,580m, marking the eighth consecutive year of revenue growth.

Aisling Dodgson Sterling is set to fall to 95 pence on the euro in the case of a hard Brexit, new analysis as projected.

Jenny Stewart A new poll by professional services firm KPMG suggests Scottish consumers are less confident of a Brexit deal being reached, and more likely to cut their spending in the event of a “no deal” Brexit, compared to consumers in other parts of the UK.

Naeema Sajid New research has revealed that the vast majority of Scotland’s family business owners say that running the firm is putting a strain on family relationships.

David Lonsdale Keeping down business taxes, supporting consumers, and aiding retailers’ investment in skills should be at the heart of the Scottish Government’s Budget this autumn, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC).

Kate Forbes The new ‘Internet of Things’ network, called IoT Scotland, is being launched with the aim of providing a wireless sensor network for applications and services to collect data from devices and send that data without the need for 3G/4G or Wi-Fi, supporting businesses develop new and in

A new industry leadership group will aim to make Scotland the best country in the world for employee-owned (EO) businesses, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce today. The First Minister will confirm the establishment of ‘Scotland for EO’ when she travels to Arran for a meeting o

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has signed the Social Mobility Pledge, founded former Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening MP in partnership with UK fintech entrepreneur David Harrison of the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility to take an entrepreneurial approach to tackling low social mo

The level of vacant industrial property in North Lanarkshire has fallen further than any other region in Scotland over the last five years.