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Unemployment in Scotland increased by 11,000 between September and November last year, and now stands at 139,000, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today.

Edinburgh-based Tesco Bank is aiming to help more customers buy their home by adding more mortgage intermediaries to its broker panel.

Callum Sinclair, a partner and head of technology at law firm Burness Paull takes a look at the future impact of Brexit on Scotland's financial services sector.  

Jamie Robertson Jamie Robertson, solicitor in Thorntons' Residential Property team highlights investment opportunities in the Granite City due to fall in house prices.

Margot James A review looking at the uses of Limited Partnerships in the UK has been launched following recent allegations that some businesses registered in Scotland are being used for criminal purposes.

The average price of a property in Scotland in November 2016 was £143,033 – an increase of 3.3 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 1.0 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Mark Prentice Hampden & Co, the UK’s newest private bank, has persuaded Mark Prentice to return to full time employment, having previously left his senior role in Lloyd’s Bank’s Corporate Banking function in Scotland to work freelance.

Kevin Ellis UK CEOs are more upbeat about the growth prospects for their own companies than 12 months ago, according to PwC’s 20th annual CEO Survey published at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Edinburgh-based global asset manager Standard Life Investments has today announced the launch in Europe of its MyFolio multi-manager SICAV funds.

Tim Gee

Holyrood’s Finance and Constitution Committee is to examine the Air Departure Tax Bill, it has been announced. The bill, introduced to Parliament will give the Scottish government the power to levy a tax on aircraft operators on the “carriage of passengers on flights that begin in Scotland”. T

Dundee-based fund manager Alliance Trust is to hold an extraordinary general meeting next month as a result of its proposed new asset management structure.

ESS operations director Mo Petrie, ESS managing director Mike Wilson, Handelsbanken corporate account manager Steven Rae. Ecosse Subsea Services (ESS) has agreed a multi-million-pound revolving credit facility with full service bank Handelsbanken.

  Iain Fraser