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Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced the establishment of a joint venture with Japanese  trust bank Sumitomo Mitsui that will invest in residential real estate in Japan and other mature markets across Asia Pacific. ASI said SuMi TRUST has a strong presence in Japan with signif

New research from wealth manager Willis Owen has revealed 34 per cent of UK retail investors have made at least one change to their investments over the past 12 months as a result of announcements made via social media channels.

A new country hotel has opened in the Highlands following more than £12m of investment in three properties by the Black Sheep Hotel group, under the ownership of Indian millionaire Sanjay Narang. Rokeby Manor, located on the outskirts of Invergarry, opened this week following a major refurbish

Edinburgh is to host the world summit on ethical finance, bringing together global leaders in business, politics and banking to shape a fairer finance system. Ethical Finance 2019 will be hosted by the Scotland-based Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), which oversees, organises and coordinates

Demand for office space in Edinburgh has remained robust despite the headwinds caused by a protracted Brexit process, according to analysis from Knight Frank.

One of the Orkney Islands’ smallest buildings is to go under the hammer at Pugh’s next North West property auction in Manchester, with a guide price of just £15,000.

Scotland’s economy is facing a widespread slowdown across most sectors, as prolonged Brexit uncertainty and global headwinds take their toll, according to the latest research from KPMG UK. The firm’s latest quarterly Economic Outlook indicates weak growth ahead for the remainder of the y

Scottish Building Society today announced that Paul Denton has been officially appointed as its new chief executive officer. Paul, who has more than 25 years experience in the banking sector, took up the reins after formal regulatory approval with a pledge to focus on personalised customer service.

Bank of Scotland has appointed a new head of commercial banking, responsible for all the bank’s business clients in Scotland. Alasdair Gardner is returning to Bank of Scotland after a successful three-year secondment with Lloyds Banking Group as its head of global corporates in North America.

TLT has further grown its UK-wide banking and finance team with the appointment of Catharine MacDonald, who joins from Ashurst as legal director in Glasgow.  Ms MacDonald will work alongside banking and finance partner Douglas Gourlay, who joined TLT in June 2018 as part of a major, ongoin

Edinburgh-based fintech lending platform LendingCrowd has today announced that it is the latest marketplace to partner with Brismo to provide sophisticated and independently verified performance metrics for investors. Brismo is a London-based provider of lending performance data that uses detai

Edinburgh is still holding its own as one of Europe’s most influential financial services hubs despite ongoing Brexit uncertainty, according to a legal expert in the sector. The first six months of 2019 has seen strong levels of activity in financial services, with a range of deals taking plac

The latest Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) Quarterly Economic Indicator survey for Q2 of 2019 shows businesses continuing to face difficulties due to prolonged uncertainty around the UK’s position in relation to the European Union. This along with rising business costs and a global economi

Andrew Miller and Andrew Harvey joined the board of non-executive directors this week and will remain until 31 July 2022. Andrew Harvey already supports the work of RoS as a non-executive member of its audit and risk committee. He is a consultant, working with clients in both the publ

Glasgow’s office occupier market has recorded steady activity in the first six months of the year, despite a limited number of major deals taking place, according to new data from JLL.