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Stuart Brown Barclays has today launched £100,000 unsecured lending – doubling its maximum for unsecured business loans for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from £50,000 to £100,000.

Scottish independent IT recruitment specialists Be-IT have posted impressive financial results, with gross profit up by 55 per cent and revenue by 40 per cent over the past twelve months.

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Shares in Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank owner CYBG have today hit their highest level on record following an earlier than expected regulatory update promised to strengthen its balance sheet when it takes over Virgin Money later this year.

Blair Nimmo Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG have been appointed at Deveron Homes Limited and Deveron Construction Limited after the Huntly-based businesses were placed in administration this week.

Twenty-five Scottish businesses - including one top flight football club - have been “named and shamed” today by the UK Government for failing to pay employees the national living and minimum wage, along with more than 200 other UK employers.

Stephen Gibb Shepherd and Wedderburn, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and London, has reported record revenues and profits on the day it celebrates its 250th anniversary.

Shawn Wood New LBTT relief for first-time buyers is the latest in a series of moves by the Scottish Government to help people get on the property ladder, but they will still struggle to compete for properties in city centres in the current climate, writes Shawn Wood, a solicitor at Watermans Legal

Julian Hartley Edinburgh-based challenger bank Tesco Bank is aiming to help more customers buy their home with the launch of a new range of mortgage products.

Miles Celic Jobs growth in Scotland's financial and related professional services (7 per cent) has outpaced that of London (5 per cent) over the last 12 months, a new report has revealed.

Jamie Grant Barclays has announced that it is introducing a new cashback scheme for flexible asset finance, to encourage businesses to invest in vehicles, equipment, plant and machinery.

Revenue Scotland has updated its guidance, systems and processes to allow First-Time Buyer Relief to be claimed from 30 June 2018. The updates follow the changes to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Act 2013 introduced by The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (First-Time Buyer Reli

(from left) GHA chair Bernadette Hewitt, EIB vice president Jonathan Taylor, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Wheatley Group Board member Jo Armstrong Wheatley Group has unveiled £185 million of new funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help build and improve thousands of affordable

The number of residential homes coming to market across east central Scotland between April and June 2018 increased by 3.2 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the latest house price report by estate agents ESPC.

A 36 year old Glasgow man who conned his father in law out of more than £55,000 has been jailed for two years.