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Keith Skeoch Standard Life chief executive Keith Skeoch has revealed that he is ready to sell-off the Edinburgh insurance giant’s £16.1 billion annuity book once shareholders have rubber-stamped its mega merger with Aberdeen Asset Management.

The average price of a property in Scotland in April 2017 was £145,734 – a 6.8 per cent year-on-year rise and an increase of 5.4 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Thomas Davies Seedrs has closed its inaugural round of secondary trades.

David Ovens and Nick Psaila Livingston-based Optoscribe, a global supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, has closed a series B investment round of £1.8 million in line with its expansion and product supply plans.

A financial adviser and his wife have been jailed over a £1.6 million property fraud following the longest trial in Scottish legal history.

May saw Scottish retail sales increase by 0.8 per cent on a like-for-like basis compared to May 2016, when they had decreased by 0.6 per cent, according to the latest analysis from KPMG and the Scottish Retail Consortium.

Jamie Hepburn Scotland’s unemployment rate has fallen to match the lowest rate in 25 years.

Keith Brown The latest assessment of Scotland’s economic performance has been published in Chief Economist Dr Gary Gillespie’s State of the Economy report in which he says the nation’s growth outlook remains positive, projecting growth of around 1 per cent in 2017 and 2018.

Mark Thomson Scottish Building Society has announced a pre-tax profit of £1.27 million in a year which also saw the development of the Society’s loyalty programme, including the launch of a new Loyalty Cash ISA.

The median selling time for properties in Edinburgh is down to 15 days, indicating a thriving market where buyers are willing to snap up properties quickly and over the home report valuation, according to latest analysis from ESPC.

Royal Bank of Scotland is close to a deal to resolve the scandal for its role in the sale of so-called “toxic” sub-prime mortgages in the US that played a major role in the onset of the financial crisis of 2008.

Keith Thomson, Paul Moore and Sonya Peace Glasgow-based Thomson Wealth Management, the boutique fee-based advisors established by two former members of Royal Bank Scotland’s Private Banking division, is all set for its next stage of growth following its relocation into new office premises and two

Donald McKinnon Glasgow-based chartered accountant Wylie & Bisset has won a contract to deliver insolvency services on behalf of the Scottish Government – the first firm to have been awarded the contract on three consecutive occasions.

Improvements in oil and gas contractor confidence both in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and internationally suggests some businesses are seeing signs of recovery and are focused on the future, according to an industry report released today.