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The weekend saw the latest technology outage to hit a major UK bank after customers of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland were affected by a Faster Payments glitch that left them unable to transfer money. Lloyds Bank took to Twitter to confirm that "some" customers are unable to make faster paymen

A Livingston-based building supplier owned by Cairngorm Capital is set to open 12 new trade centres across the UK, in a move to create the UK’s leading distribution company of its kind. The windows and doors specialist is aiming to grow turnover by £10 million as it increases its ge

The City of Edinburgh Council has published draft budget proposals for the next financial year as it bids to save £41 million. The local authority said a new “forward-thinking approach” has been developed to meet the “significant financial challenges” that lie

Edinburgh-based research and development tax relief specialist Jumpstart has announced the appointment of two new business development managers (BDMs) for the South East and South West regions of England. Bristol-based Denise Anstey becomes the company’s first BDM to be serving full time withi

2018 was the ‘year of the independent leisure operator’ in Glasgow with 13 local restaurants opening in the city through-out the year, compared to the arrival of only four national operators. Independent operators accounted for over 36,300 sq ft of new restaurant space in the city in 201

A Scottish high street renaissance could be around the corner if new Scottish Government funding is complemented with local business and public sector support, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Following FSB campaigning, the Scottish Government has pledged £50 million for

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Bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland says it is aiming to use spare cash to buy back shares from the state, speeding up its return to private ownership. The Edinburgh-based lender has called a meeting of shareholders for February 6 where it request their permission to buy as much as 4.99pc of outstandi

Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Bank of Scotland, has pledged to support UK businesses this year with a commitment to lend £18 billion to firms in 2019. In a move that it said was part of the group’s "continued commitment to help Britain prosper", Lloyds said the announcement "under

Improvement in oil price and continued stability in the oil and gas market saw office take-up in Aberdeen total 388,227 sq ft (36,070 sq m) in 2018, according to the latest research from Savills.

Glasgow Housing Association’s transformation of social housing in Scotland’s largest city has boosted the nation’s economy by £2 billion and supported thousands of jobs, a new report has revealed. The study by the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) reviewed the

With the April 2019 deadline for companies to digitise their VAT tax processes looming, 36 per cent of UK businesses say they are still ‘completely unfamiliar’ with the new regime, according to Scottish accountancy firm Scott-Moncrieff. The Making Tax Digital (MTD) regime makes it compul

Suzy Thomson, investment manager at Brewin Dolphin in Dundee, suggests five things lawyers should consider in managing trusts.  

Midwinter in the Scottish countryside is not normally associated with a buoyant property market, yet during the past month there has been a spike in the number of international viewers to Scottish top end country properties.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has announced the pass rates of the last exam sitting for 2018. The December 2018 exam sitting saw over 132,000 students around the world entering over 169,000 exams and a total of 5,470 students completed their final exams to become&nbs