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An elderly crime wave appears to be sweeping Japan because pensioners are seeking jail time in a bid to save money.

Scotland’s capital has taken another step towards becoming the first UK city to charge a tourist tax after the move was approved by Edinburgh city councillors.

The Edinburgh-based Scottish American Investment Trust (SAINTS), which counts  Coca-Cola and Microsoft among its most significant holdings, has announced market-beating returns for its shareholders for 2018 and raised its payout for the 39th year in a row. The Baillie Gifford-man

The Scottish labour market continued to tighten during January. Permanent staff appointments and temporary billings both rose further, but rates of increase softened in each case, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

Dundee-based law firm Blackadders LLP is set to reinforce its service offering by merging with Aberdeen-based solicitors, Plenderleath Runcie. The merger underpins Blackadders’ ongoing growth strategy and will result in the firm increasing its talent pool to 28 partners and more than 230 staff

Scottish law firm, Gillespie Macandrew, has expanded its Glasgow offering with the opening of new premises in the city centre. The new office, at 163 West George Street, more than doubles its footprint in the city and provides a better base from which to service its growing commercial real esta

The UK’s rare whisky auction market has exceeded sales of more than 100,000 bottles of rare whisky in a single year for the first time as global demand accelerates.

North Ayrshire-based Cunninghame Housing Association has secured a £30 million Private Placement Investment from insurance giant Canada Life to part fund its ongoing approved new build housing development programme. The £30m funding together with ongoing Scottish Gove

Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and leading light in the Scottish entrepreneurial community, Paul Atkinson has joined WeDO Scotland as chairman. Established in 2008, WeDO Scotland is the country’s most exclusive peer to peer learning, collaboration, leadership and knowledge e

HFD Property Group has secured an £88.9 million development loan to progress its Bothwell Exchange office project in Glasgow. The four-year package from the Bank of Scotland real estate and housing team’s Green Lending Initiative provides the commercial property specialist

Global payments firm Mastercard is to launch a "sonic brand identity" so that whenever and wherever consumers engage with Mastercard – via physical, digital or voice platforms – the "distinct and memorable Mastercard melody" will now be heard.

Scottish independent accountancy and business advisory firm, Johnston Carmichael, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of a new director to head up its international corporate tax offering. Peter Courtney joins the firm from HMRC, where he most recently led the interna

Glasgow City Council's City Administration Committee has backed a deal that will see the authourity use property assets to secure loans that allow it to meet the cost of settling its £548m equal pay settlement. Last month, the council and the equal pay claimant group represented by Action4Equa

Royal Bank of Scotland, which is still majority owned by the UK taxpayer, yesterday won approval from shareholders to buy back shares from the UK Government. At a meeting in at its Edinburgh headquarters, investors said that RBS could buy up to 4.99pc of its stock from the Treasury in any one year.

The Bank of England has announced that interest rates are to be held at 0.75 per cent ahead of what it says will the slowest year of growth since the recession that followed the financial crisis of a decade ago. The Bank has also revised its growth projection of 1.7 per cent for 2019, published in N