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Scots’ thrifty reputation is in doubt after research from ISA provider, Scottish Friendly, revealed that households in Scotland spend more freely than many others across the UK.

The owners of the former McEwens of Perth department store will not have to disclose the legal advice they were given before signing a personal guarantee granted to them by a bank in their action for reduction of the contract, a judge has ruled.

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the former chief executive of Virgin Money, has had her appointment to the financial policy committee of the Bank of England pushed back for a year after The Treasury was forced into a postponement to avoid “conflicts of interest”. Dame Jayne-Anne, 57, had been du

Tim Allan, the president of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, is to join the board of Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate Archangels. Mr Allan succeeds Alastair Salvesen, whose retirement from the Archangels board, on which he has served for 10 years, is being announced at our annual

Edinburgh-based active equity specialist Martin Currie has announced the appointment of Julian Ide as chief executive officer. The firm's announcement also stated that Willie Watt, who has served as CEO for the past 18 years, will remain chairman of Martin Currie, which is an affiliate of

Shaun Millican, partner and head of technology at Johnston Carmichael, explains how analytics for all could be one of the biggest benefits of MTD  

Overseas Scottish food and drink exports were worth approximately £6 billion in 2017 - almost £570 million more than 2016.

Scotland’s space sector could be worth £4 billion by 2030, Innovation Minister Ivan McKee said today.

Drum Property Group and Stamford Property Investments have today announced a joint venture to develop a significant mixed-use development site at the heart of Glasgow city centre’s Merchant City following their successful acquisition of the site. Candleriggs Quarter, bound by Hutcheson Street,

By Leon Hutchinson, senior manager at PwC  

Mark Harper has become the latest fully qualified insolvency practitioner at the Glasgow-based chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset. Following on from winning the ICAS prize for his top performance in the Corporate JIE papers in 2017/18, Mr Harper has successfully negotiated the p

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced £2 million is now available to help more businesses in Scotland prepare for Brexit. The Brexit Support Grant, administered by Scottish Enterprise, will now be available to help small and medium sized businesses manage a wide range of Brexit impacts

An event held this month by Aberdeen-based firm Activpayroll saw over 130 women attend Maggie’s Centre in Aberdeen for ‘Fizz Fiesta’, a Mexican themed ladies-only afternoon.

The Mayor of New York City is going to make the Island of Manhattan, and the epicentre of global finance, bigger - literally. Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday announced a $10 billion plan to protect lower portion of Manhattan, home of Wall Street, from sea level rise and the next major storm by expand

Former council homes in Scotland which were purchased under the Right to Buy (RtB) policy made around £2 billion in profit for their owners during the last decade-and-a-half of the policy. In one of the widest-ranging investigations into the policy, the BBC’s Shared Data Unit o