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(Image: www.guardianremovals.co.uk) Partners behind the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal hope to have a deal agreed by early next year after both the UK and Scottish governments showed their commitment to the £1 billion project.

Rural land and property experts have issued a warning about a hidden potential time bomb for Scotland in George Osborne’s latest budget. Perthshire-based rural land and property agent Bell Ingram say the Chancellor’s tax hike for second home owners in England is likely to have repercussions in S

Aberdeen Asset Management has seen its assets under management fall 13 per cent from £324.4bn in 2014 to £283.7bn on the back of outflows from the group’s flagship emerging markets equity funds. AAM was the top faller in the FTSE 100 Index, with the shares sliding 4.6 per cent on the news to 319

Results of a survey of Scottish firms carried out by accountancy body ICAEW and Grant Thornton has revealed a fall in confidence among businesses north of the border that is likely to hit investment. Respondents said they have cut their forecasts for expenditure on areas such as research and develop

Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Standard Chartered, has emerged as the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders following a Bank of England stress test. It is the second time the central bank carried out its annual test of the UK's biggest lenders in order to gauge their resilience in the face

Luxury travel expert Kuoni is checking into new premises in the heart of Glasgow’s busy shopping district in the New Year. Renowned for its tailor-made honeymoons and holidays to exotic long haul destinations around the world such as the Far East, the Indian Ocean and Africa, the operator is openi

Jo Bradley Marks & Clerk, the UK’s largest firm of patent and trade mark attorneys, has boosted its presence in Edinburgh by adding to its patent team.

A new app aimed at changing the way people invest in SMEs has been launched by an award-winning Edinburgh-based peer-to-business lending platform. In a new development for the burgeoning alternative finance sector LendingCrowd, which has already helped to facilitate almost £4m worth of funding for

L-R: John McAuslin, Andrew Shepherd, Chairman of Johnston Carmichael, Sandy Manson, CEO of Johnston Carmichael and Alex Docherty Scotland’s largest independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, Johnston Carmichael, has announced four key appointments to its senior team, effectiv

The number of Scots working past retirement is on the rise with over 9,000 men and women aged between 65-74 clocking up over 49 hours per week, according to a new report. Many of the aging workers are also often carrying out long hours and commuting lengthy distances, a census analysis carried out b

Perth-based commercial finance broker The Lending Channel is currently celebrating a series of recent industry successes. The flood of professional achievements is just recognition for brothers Alistair and Murray Ewing who have grown their business by nearly 500 per cent since its launch in 2010.

Mike Loggie, Amy Livingstone, Julie Wilson and Professor Sir Jim McDonald. Entrepreneurial Scotland, in association with Deloitte this week hosted its annual awards ceremony.

A revival in fortunes has seen Edinburgh’s Princes Street record the biggest rise in retail rents in the UK this year outside London, according to a new global research report.

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Lloyds Banking Group is poised to confirm details of another 1,000 job cuts as part of its drive to slash costs. The news come as Aberdeen politicians hit out at plans to shut two of the city’s Bank of Scotland branches controlled by still partly state-owned Lloyds.