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Jason O’Shaughnessy Glasgow-based fintech firm Castlight Financial, which aggregates data from multiple sources to analyse disposable income and credit worthiness in real-time, has recruited internationally experienced business development entrepreneur, Jason O’Shaughnessy, as a non executive ad

Dr Ross Brown UK Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) thought to be the most significant for boosting productivity and economic growth may be the most negatively affected by Brexit, according to new research from the University of St Andrews.

Atlantic Quay Buildings 1, 2 and 3 The Department For Work and Pensions (DWP) has signed a 15-year lease on 85,000 sq. ft of office space at Atlantic Quay 1.

Total office market take-up in Glasgow in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 330,061 sq ft, resulting in 631,814 sq ft of office space transactions across the whole year, according to the latest research from property consultants CBRE Scotland.

Blair Nimmo New figures from professional services firm, KPMG shows the number of businesses failing in Scotland fell to an eight-year low in 2017. The firm’s latest insolvency statistics reveals the number of corporate insolvencies at the end of 2017 stood at 832, a figure not seen since 2008 (80

Short term letting company Airbnb is planning to restrict Edinburgh landlords using its platform from renting out flats for longer than 90 days a year as part of a series of proposals which aim to find a balance between serving tourists and residents in the Scottish capital.

(Image courtesy of Jackson Criss ) Property developers Parabola have snapped up the House of Fraser store on Edinburgh's Princes Street, one of Scotland’s most iconic department stores.

The UK government’s Work and Pensions Committee has launched an investigation into the collapse of Carillion.

Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of small businesses may be the “largest theft anywhere” the House of Commons heard during a debate held yesterday over the bank’s conduct towards business customers in the wake of the financial crisis.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it is offering a range of "flexible options" to support impacted small business customers in Carillion’s supply chain, providing payment holidays and assistance with their overdraft to help manage any short-term cashflow challenges in the wake of the cons

Bank of England bosses have written to High Street lenders calling on them to “remain vigilant” about the heightened risks linked to rising consumer debt levels.

Daryl Harper Accounting and CFO recruitment specialist iMultiply has increased its headcount in Scotland in response to rising client demand.

Investment in Scottish hotels in 2017 reached £195 million across 23 deals, marking more than a 60 per cent increase on the total investment volume recorded the year previously (£119.74m), according to new Savills research.

Scotland’s next generation of business leaders will benefit from entrepreneurial learning as Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Fellowship programme is delivered in Scotland for the first time by Strathclyde Business School.

The debut cohort of 19 Scottish businesses are welcomed to the new initiative by entrepreneur, Bob Keiller Scale-up Scotland, a programme delivered by Entrepreneurial Scotland to address Scotland’s business scale-up challenge and deliver economic growth, officially launched this week in Aberdeen s