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A Natwest customer has spoken of how she was defrauded of more than £100,000 in a so-called ‘vishing’ scam carried out over a three day period.

Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Anderson Anderson Brown has announced that the firm has been shortlisted for the 2016 Payroll World Awards in the categories of Best Employer in Payroll, Payroll Provider of the Year and Auto-Enrolment Engagement of the Year.

ICAS has announced a new sponsorship arrangement with Royal Bank of Scotland that will see RBS become a partner for the ICAS Practice Community.

The Scottish Loan Fund and Maven Capital Partners have exited its investment in Cumbernauld-based manufacturer and supplier of furniture, presentation products, toys and activity equipment for the education sector, Spaceright.

Business confidence fell following the UK’s vote for Brexit, and is now at its lowest in over three years, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

Scotland’s private sector experienced a downturn at the start of the third quarter, with output returning to contraction territory.

The overall rate of personal insolvencies in Scotland, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds, has decreased by a quarter in the last financial year from 25.13 per 10,000 adults to 19, according to latest figures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFipEjDxMI Following last week’s news that Bank of Scotland is to close 23 more branches north of the border, the Edinburgh-based lender has pledged to introduce extra mobile services in the north and north-east of the country.

Galloway’s work at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow Dundee engineering firm Galloway Group was given “significant financial support” by the Scottish Government before it entered administration, it has been revealed.

A manager at a Dundee building merchants who embezzled more than £73,000 from his bosses is facing jail.

Edinburgh-based crowdfunding platform The LendingCrowd has reported a post-Brexit vote boom for its business.

Robin Knox Intelligent Point of Sale, the young Scottish start-up that developed the UK’s first cloud-based, iPad electronic point of sale (EPOS) app, expects to see more than £4 million and 750,000 transactions handled through its software at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Scotland is seeing a rise in graduate recruitment but businesses have warned over the quality of careers guidance and university leavers’ readiness for the world of work, a new survey carried out by the CBI has found.

Property sales in the Scottish Borders have remained healthy over the last three months, according to CKD Galbraith.

Britain’s decision to leave the EU has resulted in the steepest drop in permanent job placements in Scotland since 2009, according to a survey covering July.