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Jackie Waring Scotland’s only pitch competition for women entrepreneurs is being launched today at Edinburgh Napier University.

Scottish average starting salaries for professional roles are expected to increase by 2.5 per cent next year, according to latest industry analysis.

Converge Challenge Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) : Dr Olga Kozlova, Director, Converge Challenge (front row second from left) Sandy Finlayson, Chair, Converge Challenge (front row middle). Converge Challenge, Scotland’s creation competition and entrepreneurship development programme for students,

Andrew Davison Collapsed Dundee specialist engineering firm the Galloway Group and its associated firms owe external creditors £17.6 million, according to administrators Ernst & Young.

The vice president for finance at a Scottish oil industry firm who was branded “greedy” by a judge and jailed for more than three years for embezzling more than £1.3 million from her employers has been ordered to repay nearly £600,000 of her criminal gains.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has criticised the asset management industry over the development of weak price competition.

Andrew Ewing Business owners considering a sale should give themselves two years to get their company in good shape and maximise the value, according to accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael.

Nationwide, the UK's biggest building society, has reported a drop in half-year profits as low interest rates squeezed profit margins.

Councillors have voiced concerns over the latest budget predictions that could mean a gap of £115 million for Fife Council over the next three years.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) has launched a new online platform designed to help UK businesses with exporting.

Standard Life Investments believes that it is time for a reset of fiscal policy to address both short and long-term challenges in the UK economy.

A third of all British businesses have abandoned investments totalling £65.5 billion as a result of the Brexit vote, according to Hitachi Capital and the Centre for Economic and Business Research.

Commercial finance provider for SMEs, IGF, has completed £5 million in asset based financing to Scottish SMEs since its launch in July.

Jamie Grant, head of corporate banking for Barclays Scotland & Northern Ireland (right) and Stuart Brown, head of SME banking for Barclays Scotland & Northern Ireland. Barclays has strengthened its Scottish senior management team with the appointment of Stuart Brown as head of SME Banking fo