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Mike Brown Anderson Anderson Brown has said it is the end of an era at the Aberdeen-based accountancy firm after it announced that the last of its remaining three founding partners is to retire.

Ross McEwan Ross McEwan, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has been awarded £1.2 million worth of shares in the still 73 per cent state-owned lender.

Douglas Barnett Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has announced that one of the country’s most senior former police officers is to be its new chair.

Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Scott-Moncrieff last night triumphed at the UK MPF (Managing Partners’ Forum) Awards for Management Excellence 2017, winning the award for ‘Best Strategy Implementation’.

David Cumming The head of equities at Standard Life Investors has left the firm to “pursue other interests” in the same week that it announced its £11 billion merger with Aberdeen Asset Management.

There was a 3.3 per cent year on year rise in property sales across Scotland, with 99,860 total sales, according to figures released today by Registers of Scotland.

56 Queens Street, Aberdeen. Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) has moved its 15 strong Aberdeen workforce to a new location within the city’s traditional business quarter.

The UK’s most vulnerable tenants are being pushed out of the private rental market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned.

Laura Mair Scottish business leaders and finance experts have slammed Chancellor Philip Hammond's budget decision to increase National Insurance bills for self-employed.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday pledged in his budget announcement that the Scottish government will receive a £350 million funding boost in a move widely perceived as an attempt to head-off the prospect of a second independence referendum.

Lindsay Gardiner By Lindsay Gardiner, regional chair for PwC in Scotland

Moira Kelly The body representing Scotland’s tax professionals has welcomed yesterday’s UK Budget announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to delay the implementation of digital record keeping for businesses trading below the VAT registration threshold.

Hannah Nixon The UK will see more payment service providers, such as challenger banks, gain direct access to the interbank payments systems this year, according to a new report published today by the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR).

It is expected that the UK chancellor will today use his budget to outline plans to help ease the tax burden on the North sea oil and gas industry.