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Martyn Percival Watson Wood Financial Planning has announced the appointment of Martyn Percival who joins the Inverness-based firm as its third financial planner from Johnston Carmichael's wealth management division.

A popular bar and brasserie on the Isle of Arran has reopened under new ownership, thanks to a six-figure funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Glasgow-based football club Rangers have cleared a £3 million credit facility with financiers taking a club car park, a derelict ticket office and stadium TV screens off the hook.

Vince Smith-Hughes Advisers are increasingly optimistic that partnerships with accountants and solicitors will help drive new business in the year ahead, research from Prudential has revealed.

Adrian Lowcock Almost a fifth UK retail investors expect the UK stock market to fall by over 10 per cent between now and April 2019, while 6 per cent anticipate a correction of more than 15 per cent, according to new research from DIY investment platform Willis Owen.

Paul Eagland Accountancy and business advisory firms, BDO and Moore Stephens LLP, are in advanced merger discussions to complete a deal that would see the creation of a firm to supplant Grant Thornton as the fifth-biggest player in Britain.

Andrew McRae The Scottish Government should set aside £75 million to help firms adapt to the UK leaving the European Union, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has urged Ministers.

Alison Rose Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced the launch of a new digital platform which will be available to all Royal Bank business and commercial customers allowing them to apply online for secured and unsecured loans of up to £750,000 – the largest digitally available loans in the in

Ged Killen Dr James Goodfellow CBE, the Scots inventor of the ATM and the PIN code has endorsed a bill by Labour MP Ged Killen which seeks to ban ATM charges and prevent financial exclusion.

Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group Stuart Robb and Julien Irving of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery Limited have been appointed joint administrators of Red Dog Music Limited.

Sandra White The chief executive of Adopt an Intern (AAI) will today tell its largest ever conference gathering in Glasgow that Scots businesses must strive to lead the UK in the creation of more ethnic employment opportunities.

The tough economic conditions which have engulfed Aberdeen for the last four years may be coming to an end with new figures indicating tentative signs of a recovery in the local property market.

Kate Cranston around 1903 The decision by Royal Bank of Scotland to make Kate Cranston (1849 – 18 April) the first woman - other than the Queen or Queen Mother - to feature on a Scottish £20 note has run into strong criticism after it emerged that tea room matron was said to have exploited her yo

Catherine Burnet The government-backed Hampton-Alexander Review for 2018 has revealed companies in the FTSE 100 index are on track – as a whole – to hit targets of women holding one-third of board level positions by 2020.

Joe Garner Nationwide has announced that it will launch a business bank account - with or without external competition funding - describing the project as an "opportunity too big to ignore".