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CYBG, the parent company of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, and Yorkshire Bank, has made a £1.6 billion takeover offer for Virgin Money.

Martin Gill Business output has fallen but firms remain optimistic about future growth, while employment continues to rise, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisors BDO.

SFE Chief Executive Graeme Jones with CBS Consulting team Iain Beggs, Stephen Verrecchia and Eddie Curran Edinburgh-based firm CBS Consulting has joined Scottish Financial Enterprise to expand their network and support the representative body’s work in strengthening and promoting financial service

Buccleuch Livingston Buccleuch Property has further strengthened its commercial property portfolio with the purchase of a substantial industrial unit at Oakbank Industrial Estate, Livingston.

Addi Spiers Addi Speirs, a partner in Addleshaw Goddard’s restructuring team, says more businesses are looking for alternatives to administration

Jamie Younger Sideways loss relief can be used where losses, arising from a trade undertaken on a commercial basis and with a view to making a profit, can be offset against other income arising in the same or previous tax year, thereby reducing an individual’s liability to income tax.

An innovative new team of fraud-fighters has already frozen £1 million from con artists trying to trick people known as ‘money mules’ into receiving and transferring cash.

Calum Finlayson The first school leaver from Inverness appointed by accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael is set to become a fully qualified chartered accountant.

Barratt Homes’ Mill Brae development Homebuyers across Scotland can now save both money and the environment at the same time with the launch of the UK’s first green home mortgage.

Ireland is set to pick up more legal business from financial services companies after Brexit following a boost from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).

AAB's Callum Gray, Laura Campbell, Charlotte Stewart, Ian Campbell, Heather Brown, Andrew Blair and Graeme Allan Accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced the promotion of Callum Gray to director, as well as the promotion of five members of their management team to senio

Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary NatWest has outlined plans to scale and grow its digital lending platform Esme Loans following a successful pilot phase.

Bruce Evans, group managing director at Lomond Capital Edinburgh-based property group Lomond Capital has acquired SDL Group’s Birmingham residential lettings portfolio, which comprises 500 city centre properties, formerly the CP Bigwood residential lettings portfolio.

Duncan Brock UK service providers such as those operating in financial services, IT, transport, hotels and restaurants, signalled a modest rebound in business activity growth following the snow disruptions seen during March, according to the latest data from the Chartered Institute of Procurement an

Nearly one in 10 over-55s fear they have been targeted by suspected scammers since the launch of Pension Freedoms, new research for Prudential shows.