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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.

Lloyds Banking Group is set to slash 250 Scottish jobs with the closure of its contact centre in Dundee.

A bill to replace Air Passenger Duty in Scotland and introduce new air departure tax cuts has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.

Nicola Sturgeon meets HSBC Scotland boss Alison McGregor in Edinburgh. Global banking giant HSBC has announced plans to create 500 new roles in Scotland.

The Serious Fraud Office has today charged Barclays, along with four of its former executives, with conspiracy to commit fraud relating to capital raising arrangements with Qatar in June and October 2008 at the height of the financial crisis.