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A Scottish firm – which last year bought a New York rival to become the world’s largest low latency cloud provider for algorithmic forex trading – is on the US acquisition trail again. Beeks Financial Cloud, which helps institutions trade foreign exchange securely and quickly through the cloud

Patrick Harvie The Scottish Green Party is to commission detailed research into the process of how Scotland would set up its own currency should it become an independent country in the future.

John Swinney Deputy First Minister John Swinney has called for dialogue with the UK government over the Scotland Bill and a fair fiscal framework for Scotland.

A new survey conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed that 70 per cent of its Scottish members are currently likely to vote to remain in the EU. The figure, which was arrived at when those who were undecided about how they would vote were taken out, was the highest proport

John Blackwood Scottish landlords met with senior UK government officials in London yesterday to urge them to rethink planned tax changes for private landlords.

Staff from Johnston Carmichael's Forfar office, have raised nearly £900 for the Angus Foodbank, following a year-long fundraising campaign. From June 2014 to May 2015, the Forfar office participated in a series of fundraising initiatives which raised £861 for the Angus Foodbank, and included donat

Sharon Hamilton With its dual talents for finance and technology, Scotland is increasingly becoming the location of choice for businesses says Sharon Hamilton, international sector head of financial services at Scottish Enterprise.

David Menzies Figures for 2014/15 have revealed that funds returned to creditors increased while there was a 'sharp drop' in the number of personal insolvencies north of the border.

Royal Bank of Scotland, the still more than 70 per cent government-owned bailed-out lender, has agreed to pay $129.6 million to America's National Credit Union Administration to resolve claims that it sold toxic residential mortgage-backed securities to corporate credit unions Members United and Sou

Sir Tom Hunter One of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs has called on the nation “move on” from last year’s independence debate and concentrate on “coming together” to build a more prosperous Scotland within the UK.

The number of unemployed people in Scotland remained unchanged during the second quarter of 2015 at 164,000. According to official figures, between May and July, the unemployment rate stood at 5.9 per cent, compared with 5.5 per cent for the UK as a whole.

Standard Life Employee Services Limited, the intellectual property holding arm of Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life, has been confirmed as the latest entrant to a new innovative league table ranking the UK’s companies by the value of their intellectual property (IP). The entry comes i

Scotch Whisky has received legal protection in 17 African countries after an intellectual property organisation on the continent gave it geographical indication (GI) status.

Christine McGuigan Granite City accountancy practice Infinity Partnership has made a key appointment as the business targets further growth.

Edinburgh-based Standard Life Investments has announced plans to merge almost all the retail funds it took over last year after the acquisition of Ignis Asset Management. SLI acquired Ignis Asset Management for £390m in March 2014 boosting the firm’s assets in the first half of the year to more t