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James McIlroy A privately held Scottish biotechnology company run by an undergraduate medical student at Aberdeen University, has raised £500,000 in an oversubscribed seed round of investment.

Caroline Gardner Scotland's colleges face several financial challenges, and potential difficulties from a declining student population, according to Audit Scotland.

Perth-based Braveheart Investment Group says it has had an ‘exceptional’ year after finally completing its transition from the red back into profit.

Sandy Begbie Edinburgh insurance giant Standard Life has been ranked as one of the Top 50 employers in the UK’s first-ever Social Mobility Employer Index, entering the new Index in fourth place.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £20.1 billion in May, according to latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, a 12 per cent increase on both April and on May last year, in which £17.9 billion was advanced.

The third World Forum on Natural Capital will take place later this year in Edinburgh, it has been announced.

Prof Gary McEwan Aberdeen City and Shire is once again the top region in Scotland for new business start-ups after breaking the record for a second year.

Adam Purvis (left) and Bruce Walker (right) outside the Fx team’s Leith office Three Edinburgh entrepreneurs have joined forces to help international entrepreneurs in a quest to "build a better world through business" by changing the way entrepreneurial ecosystems are built.

Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management this morning announced that their plan to merge and create the second largest fund manager in Europe has cleared its final hurdle after the Competition and Markets Authority gave its backing to the proposal. The news comes just days after shareholders in b

Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced that it is to offer specialist one-to-one support to all new entrants entering the Scottish farming sector.

Rod Paris Days after securing overwhelming shareholder backing for their £11 billion merger, Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management have announced the makeup of the combined firm’s investment management committee.

Hugh Aitken CBI Scotland has today said that sufficiently increasing productivity in Scotland could the economy north of the border by £25 billion over the coming decade.

In a boost to the Strathclyde economy, a fully serviced business centre in the heart of Scotland’s Central Belt has nearly doubled in size just over ten months after it first opened.

Vishal Chopra Scotland’s exporters and international companies are facing increasing uncertainty in one of the country’s key markets, according to global accountancy firm Grant Thornton.

EY, the global accountancy firm which employs 1,000 across four Scottish offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 20 employers in the inaugural Social Mobility Employer Index.