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Alistair Duncan joins the Indirect Tax team at AAB. Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), one of Scotland’s largest independent firms of Chartered Accountants, has announced the appointment of Alistair Duncan as its new director of indirect tax.

Edinburgh-based banking giant and owner of Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, has confirmed that it is to cut 1,230 jobs as part of its continuing strategic restructuring drive.

Glenn Allison Stewart Milne Group has secured a £185 million banking facility to pursue its long-term strategy of focussed growth and geographical expansion.

While the wheels may to be coming off of Donald Trump's tilt for the White House it seems he will not be able to find any better news on this side of the Atlantic with his Scottish golf courses suffering loses of more than £9 million last year.

Edinburgh-based global asset manager Standard Life Investments has announced the appointment of a new team and CEO in Singapore, marking a significant step in the company’s global growth strategy and commitment to Asia Pacific.

Keith Brown Latest official figures published today have shown the Scottish economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2016.

Abolishing rates help for smaller Scottish firms would result in thousands of cancelled investments and business closures, according to the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB).

Home-owners borrowed £12.2bn for house purchase in August, up 14 per cent month-on-month and 11 per cent year-on-year.

Scott Barrie (2014 Scholar and currently on Edrington graduate programme), Nadia Fraser (2014 Scholar and currently on Edrington graduate programme), Scott McCroskie (Managing Director McCallan whisky) and Alice Leyshon (2012 Scholar and Assistant Brand Manager Cutty Sark) Entrepreneurial Scotlandâ€

A dip in confidence has been recorded among Scottish manufacturers with almost one in four (23 per cent) blaming uncertainty following the EU vote and nearly one in three (30 per cent) citing global economic concerns as the main barrier to growth.

Edinburgh private investment company Murray Capital Group (MCG) has reported a £6 million jump in annual profits.

Council leader Frank McAveety detailed the report’s six recommendationsGlasgow City Council has called on the Scottish and UK governments to accelerate City Deal capital infrastructure works and transfer surplus land to the council for major housing building programmes as part of a range of measu

RGL Management Limited, the group gearing-up to launch a class action lawsuit against Royal Bank of Scotland over the conduct of its disbanded Global Restructuring Group, has said its numbers and value will soar after damning revelations were published in leaked internal documents.

The business rates system in Scotland should aim to reflect economic reality and maximise investment, according to CBI Scotland's response to the Independent Review of Scottish Business Rates.

Partners at legal firm CMS UK, which has three offices in Scotland, have joined those at Nabarro and Olswang in backing a plan to combine their firms and create what will be the world’s sixth largest law firm by headcount and sixth largest in the UK by revenue.