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The Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland has welcomed new UK Government measures aimed at ensuring smaller firms are paid fairly by bigger businesses. Following years of FSB campaigning, ministers have proposed a swathe of new powers for the Small Business Commissioner to tackle late payments,

The Scottish economy has grown for the ninth consecutive quarter, latest official statistics show. The latest GDP figures show the Scottish economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2019. Compared to the same quarter last year, Scotland’s GDP has grown by 1.4 per cent.

Just over one in ten (11 per cent) millennials are planning to take out a mortgage in the next year, despite a third (33 per cent) claiming they are currently saving for a property, research from The Nottingham building society has revealed.

The value of new community projects in development through the Scotland-wide hub programme has risen from £600 million to £750m in the last three months.

D.R. Collin & Son, which is based in Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders, is set to increase exports to Europe and Asia with seven-figure backing from HSBC UK. The funding is being provided through a combination of facilities, including invoice discounting. The financial support will enable D.R. Co

The volume of flexible office stock in Scotland’s two largest cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, is set to more than double over the next five years, according to new research from property consultancy JLL. A new report from JLL – Disruption or Distraction – predicts that flex space wi

A group of accountants and business advisors has set off on an epic cycle from Aberdeen to London, in aid of charity.

An Edinburgh-based developer of cutting-edge team-building software has secured a trial with Royal Bank of Scotland whose project managers will use the tool to match employees to the most suitable roles.

Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has promoted five new directors. Suzanne Adshead, Lesley Clark, Jamie Davidson and Grant Roger, who are based in the Edinburgh office, and Stuart Walker, a member of the Johnston Carmichael Wealth team and located in Aberdeen, have

The joint administrators of Hutchinson Networks Ltd, Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG, have secured the sale of the business to PlanNet21 Communications Ltd. Edinburgh-based Hutchinson Networks was placed into administration on 13th May 2019, resulting in 94 redundancies.

Robbie McKenzie will lead LendingCrowd’s legal, risk and compliance function  

The Scottish Government needs to show greater strategic leadership across the public sector to achieve its digital ambitions, says the spending watchdog. There has been some good early progress towards putting digital at the heart of everything government does. Guidance has been introduced to ensure

Offshore private registers detailing who owns which companies in the Channel Islands are to be made public. The move follows sustained pressure on the islands to do their part of tackle tax avoidance.

The UK Treasury has this week announced a ‘Breathing Space’ scheme in England and Wales that will give people in debt 60 days to seek help while their creditors freeze the interest, and offers additional protections for people whose debt has led them to experience a mental health crisis.

Royal Bank of Scotland is to work with the Scottish Association for Young Farmers, the Rural Youth Project and the NFU Scotland Next Generation to offer an extension of its Entrepreneur Accelerator programme.