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Graham Blair The number of million pound house sales in Scotland in the first half of 2016 was a third lower than in the first six months of 2015, the latest Million Pound Property Report from Bank of Scotland has found.

Aberdeen and Edinburgh have ranked in the top ten UK cities in which to live and work for a fourth consecutive year, according to the latest Good Growth for Cities index, produced by PwC and think-tank, Demos.

Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority to initiate a new complaints process, overseen by retired High Court Judge Sir William Blackburne, to provide an automatic refund of complex fees paid by SME customers who were victims of the still 73 per c

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), the venture capital firm behind some of the UK’s major high growth technology companies, has announced that it has raised £260 million for a new fund, SEP V.

David Morrison Significant tax changes affecting landlords will be outlined as part of National Landlord Day tomorrow and specialist property tax experts from Dundee-based EQ Accountants will be attending the Scottish Association of Landlords conference in Edinburgh to highlight new legislation affe

Alistair Darling The Standard Life Foundation has today announced the appointment of its trustees, with former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling expected to become Chair.

Austen Clark Tesco Bank’s online hacking attack has prompted the boss of a North east IT firm to issue a stark warning that cyber crime must be taken very seriously – and not just by national and international brands and corporations.

Aberdeen-based independent firm of Chartered Accountants Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has announced the launch of a new specialist Training Division to build on existing workshops and courses currently delivered to clients.

James Anderson The falling value of the pound against the dollar may have helped the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust to post a 25 per cent increase in net asset value (NAV) and price per share in the six months to September 30, but that has not stopped its guiding force from condemning the UK’s

Benny Higgins Tesco Bank's chief executive Benny Higgins has said he is "very hopeful" customers would be refunded within 24 hours after about 40,000 of its accounts saw suspicious transactions over the weekend, of which half had money taken.

A Dundee woman who funded her “extravagant lifestyle” through the embezzlement of £64,000 from the Dundee firm where she worked has been hit with a 10-year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order (BRO) by the Accountancy in Bankruptcy.

An Aberdeen pharmacist who admitted forging prescriptions in a VAT fraud of more than £200,000 has been jailed.

The Hyperion Development team Hyperion Development, a small University of Edinburgh start-up company which provides scalable software development and computer science education internationally, has won a competitive ‘social impact award’ of $150,000 cash, plus a further $60,000 support grant fro

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across Scotland are being given the chance to enlist the services of an industry expert to assist them with a cyber security strategy.

Despite take-up in Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres in Q3 2016 being well down on the five-year quarterly average, leading real estate advisory firm Bilfinger GVA is optimistic that the market will recover from the post-Brexit downturn.