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The City of London Corporation has today published a report produced by PwC outlining for debate how elements of immigration policy could be devolved so that visas for non UK nationals could be tailored to meet the needs of local business. The report sets out how such a system could work in practice

Bank branches are closing at a faster rate in Scotland than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, figures unearthed by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show.

Counsel and others who merely give advice on tax avoidance schemes without helping to design them should be excluded from a proposed new regime of sanctions, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested.

The High Court Calls has been made for a Scottish Government review after police and prosecutors were found by the High Court in London to have “abused state powers” to carry out an illegal raid while investigating the allegedly fraudulent takeover of Rangers football club.

Aberdeen Asset Management’s South American fund has reported better-than-expected assets under management in its third quarter results as the enterprise benefited from the weakened position of sterling.

L&SD MD Bryan Wilson at the former Tesco site in Crieff. A property management, investment and development company has announced plans to regenerate dormant sites across Scotland, deliver over 300 new home in the process.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £20.5 billion in September, according to latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Edinburgh-based peer-to-peer lending firm LendingCrowd has announced an inducement offer to investors who are thinking about adding P2P to their investment strategy.

Demand for temporary professionals in Scotland has risen by 8 per cent year on year to September 2016 according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

Fears that headwinds from the UK vote to leave the EU in June could spread to the global economy appear not to have been realised, with confidence amongst UK businesses holding up relative to the previous quarter, according to the latest the latest Global Economic Conditions Survey published today

Nearly a third of Scotland’s professional services firms are considered to be at higher than normal risk of insolvency, according to research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

A new financial institution based on ‘ethical banking’ has been created in Edinburgh following the merger of two long established Credit Unions.

Hundreds of thousands of people who fell into arrears on their mortgage may be eligible for compensation, after a ruling by City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority.

The sale of a large detached residence in Bearsden for £2.42 million has set a new record for a house sale in the Glasgow area in the wake of East Dunbartonshire being named among the UK’s ‘most prosperous areas’.

Nearly seven in 10 (69 per cent) people in Scotland are unaware that over the next few years there will be increases to the minimum contributions they will have to make into their workplace pension scheme, according to the latest Scottish Widows Workplace Pensions Report.