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Europe’s family businesses are embracing innovation as they plan for expansion by capitalising on past growth and reinvesting profits into the business, a new survey carried out by KPMG has found.

Caroline Connellan Edinburgh-based investment management firm Brooks Macdonald has today published its quarterly update showing its discretionary Funds Under Management (“FUM”) for the first quarter ended 30 September 2018 totalled £12.8 billion, an increase of 3.0 per cent over the prior quart

Ross McEwan Bailed-out lender Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is setting aside £100 million to deal with "the more uncertain economic outlook" as it reported another rise in profits.

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Ross Boyd Entrepreneurial accountant and international business consultant Ross Boyd is embarking on a major push into Scotland in a move it says will bring the firm's "innovative people- and technology-driven offering to the country’s small-to-medium businesses".

The first report by an independent panel formed to help shape Aberdeen’s economic future will be published next week at a conference bringing together experts from throughout Britain.

The Government is being urged to freeze Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) at the forthcoming Budget, after HMRC figures revealed that taxpayers are now paying record amounts of the tax.

David Tiller Standard Life Aberdeen today announced the appointment of David Tiller to the newly created role of head of UK propositions.

Scottish Infrastructure Secretary, Michael Matheson, has challenged the UK Government to match his funding commitment for the Tay Cities Region Deal.

Rodney Whyte By Rodney Whyte, Partner and property and planning specialist at legal firm Pinsent Masons

Barclays Chairman John McFarlane, SFE Chairman Jim Pettigrew, EY Head of Financial Services in Scotland Sue Dawe, Head of Barclays in Scotland Scott Stewart, SFE Chief Executive Graeme Jones.Barclays has won the 2018 Scottish Financial Services Award for enabling local communities in Scotland to pr

The number of Scottish companies rated as being in “critical” financial distress during Q3 2018 has increased by 119 per cent on the same period of last year, according to the latest research data from insolvency firm Begbies Traynor.

AG Barr, which produces and markets some of the UK's leading drink brands, including Irn-Bru, Rubicon, Strathmore and Funkin, has announced that Nicholas (Nick) Wharton will join the Board as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1 November.

The commercial market in Scotland has remained steady, held up by office and industrial sectors although retail continued to decline, according to the latest RICS UK Commercial Property Market survey for Q3 2018.

Jo Douglas Jo Douglas, Financial Planner at Brewin Dolphin in Edinburgh, explores whether a generation caricatured as idle are actually facing an entire lifetime of toil