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A YouGov and Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) poll has indicated that consumer confidence has hit a five-year low due to fears of a recession by the end of the year.

HSBC has provided a seven-figure funding package to Kilmarnock FC owner Billy Bowie to help achieve his goals to grow his Park Hotel and Special Projects business ventures. The funding will help Mr Bowie create 20 new jobs at the four-star Park Hotel at Kilmarnock’s Rugby Park. Employees will

As half-year export figures show growth, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has called on the UK Government to ensure certainty in future trading conditions.

India's ICICI bank has claimed to be the first bank in the country to implement industrial robots to count cash. The robotic arms are used to collect processed cash from the bank's branches and then sort them so they are ready to be resent back to the branches.

A group of MPs have called for new legislation to stop banks abandoning Scottish towns.

Alasdair Gill has been appointed as the new head of XPS Pensions Group's Scotland investment team to help grow its proposition. Alasdair joined the XPS team having previously spent 22 years with Mercer, where he accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in the North of England and Scotla

David Harvey has joined the Allied Surveyors Scotland team as a senior commercial valuer at the firm's Edinburgh office. David’s appointment comes quickly after the announcement in June, that the former Scotland rugby internationalist Gavin Kerr had been recruited by Allied as a senior buildin

PwC Scotland has signed a partnership agreement with digital skills academy CodeClan. This partnership has been made to help PwC meet the increasing demand for skilled technology workers.

Staff from Murray Taylor have participated in a series of physical challenges to raise money for Help for Heroes.  Staff members took part in Tough Mudder Classic Scotland 2019. This challenge included eight to ten mines of muddy trekking with twenty-five obstacles to contend with along the way

The creator of a portable pizza oven Ooni has raised £40,000 within its first hour of a crowdfunding campaign.

After securing £1.5m in funding from Scottish Enterprise, healthcare tech company Care Sourcer is due to create 70 new jobs. The Edinburgh-based company has previously raised £8.5 million from Legal & General and ADV to help the company develop technology "to tackle the UK's care cri

Figures released by HMRC last week revealed a reduction in the number of property transactions in the UK this summer amidst uncertainty surrounding Brexit. According to the figures, in the UK the provisional seasonally adjusted volume of residential property transactions decreased by 8.5 per cent be

The Scottish village of Durness is to be the first to receive a free ATM under a new scheme to fund cash machines in areas which have lost access after bank cutbacks.

Former investment banker Professor Heather McGregor has been announced as the keynote speaker at the first Gather Scotland Female Leadership event. The businesswoman, writer, broadcaster and academic is to lead what the Gather Scotland has described as a stellar speaker line-up at the influential ev

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has revealed that the average insurance scam has reached £12,000.