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The proportion of homes in the UK bought with cash fell to 29.6 per cent in the first half of 2018, according to estate agents Hamptons International, the lowest level since the company’s records began.

Yvonne Braun Ahead of the Budget, the Association of British Insurers is calling for an end to the salami-slicing approach to cutting pensions tax relief and says that it is ready to work with government on any longer-term reforms.

Simon Cowie The six national award wins of an Aberdeen accountancy firm have been recognised at the Scottish Parliament.

Scotch Whisky exports increased in the first half of 2018 to £1.97 billion, a 10.8 per cent rise in the value of exports against the same period last year.

Poonam Gupta Scottish Chambers of Commerce has welcomed some of Scotland's best known business people and entrepreneurs to its board of directors.

Alison Rose NatWest has today announced an additional £2 billion of funding for businesses as they prepare for the Brexit process.

PwC is in settlement talks with the accountancy regulator the Financial Reporting Council over its auditing of an IT Services firm that saw the "Big Four" firm miss a £21 million hole in the company's books.

Gordon MacLure Gordon MacLure and Donald McNaught of Johnston Carmichael have been appointed as joint administrators of underwater training and trials centre The Underwater Centre in Fort William.

A Glasgow duo have escaped to the country and taken ownership of the Whitebridge Hotel on Loch Ness, thanks to a funding package from Barclays.

Blair Nimmo The number of large businesses failing in Scotland fell by almost a third (29 per cent) in the last quarter (July-September) compared to same period in 2017 (17 down from 24).

Dundee-based wealth manager Alliance Trust has sold its flat-fee platform Alliance Trust Savings to Interactive Investor in a £40 million dealt that will also see control of Alliance Trust’s office building in Dundee change hands.

The overwhelming majority of larger companies in Scotland believe climate change poses a risk to their business, according to new figures published today.

With third-quarter corporate insolvency statistics to be published this week and likely to show a continued rise in the number of business failures in Scotland, Eileen Blackburn, head of restructuring and debt advisory at French Duncan, looks at what the trend can mean The first two quarters have se

Colin Dempster The third quarter of 2018 generated half of all profit warnings for Scottish listed companies this year, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings report.

UK consumer confidence fell by three percentage points in the third quarter of 2018, down to -7 per cent after the previous quarter’s record level of confidence, according to the latest Deloitte Consumer Tracker.