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Average starting salaries for professional roles in the UK have grown by 3.68 per cent in the past three years and the upward trend is set to continue next year, according to Robert Half's 2017 Salary Guide.

Virgin Media has announced plans to connect an additional 360,000 homes and businesses in Scotland to its fibre optic network by the end of 2019, as part of its £3bn Project Lightning network expansion across the UK.

Jayne-anne Gadhia Edinburgh giants Standard Life and Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds, as well as Aberdeen Asset Management are among the Scottish firms which have signed up, along with Edinburgh-based Virgin Money, Capital Credit Union and East Renfrewshire Credit Union, to the UK government’s Women

Jeremy Peat Leading Scottish academics have warned that the UK government’s decision to pursue a “hard Brexit” in order to secure a limitation on immigration at the cost of access to the European single market has left Scotland and the UK’s future economic prospects “bleak”.

Ally Scott The value of UK M&A in Q3 of 2016 increased from the previous quarter, despite Brexit uncertainty, according to latest data released by EY.

Aberdeen City Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to be assigned a credit rating as it prepares to invest in major housebuilding and construction projects.

'Expose GRG' has launched a class action against the bank. New secret documents have emerged that seemingly expose still 73 per cent taxpayer-owned bank Royal Bank of Scotland methods of intentionally driving struggling businesses to the wall in order to cash-in on their assets.

Investment in Edinburgh’s commercial property market is on course to reach its highest point since 2006, according to analysis from Knight Frank.

An Aberdeen pharmacist who forged prescriptions has admitted a VAT fraud of more than £200,000.

Britons are taking on unsecured debt at a faster pace than any time in the last decade, according to latest data from financial capability charity The Money Charity.

Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank is being lined-up for takeover by a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie, and involving the Pension Protection Fund, Lloyds Bank and Sustainable Development Capital as the UK Government considers the consortium’s final offers following its decision to

Proposals to redesign Scotland’s system of business rates can strengthen local democratic accountability, or increase the system’s efficiency, but it will be hard to achieve both at once, according to tax professionals.

Despite an easing of some negative effects, risk appetite among the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of the UK’s largest businesses remains subdued following the EU referendum, according to Deloitte’s latest CFO Survey.

David Lonsdale By David Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium

Nick Laird Scotland’s private sector output increased for the first time in three months during September, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)