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Scottish Enterprise has today unveiled the forecasted impact of its £1.3m package of support for the third cohort of its flagship business growth and leadership programme Unlocking Ambition. The latest group of entrepreneurs, who joined the nationwide programme in September 2021 and will gradu

Scottish retail sales in Scotland decreased by 7.9% in January, an improvement of .1 percentage points from December 2021 and is the lowest Yo2Y decline recorded since July last year.

Edinburgh’s iconic Jenners department store and Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries may have changes of use ahead of them, but new analysis from Knight Frank indicates Scotland’s two largest cities are among the most resilient retail centres in the UK.

M&G Real Estate, part of M&G plc’s £65 billion private and alternative assets business, with its property development partner Qmile Group, has pre-let all 390,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation at its £350 million Haymarket Edinburgh after a further three deals for 4

Scotland's housing market ended 2021 on a high as the average house price in December reached £213,656.

Investing Women Angels (IWA) has become the first Scottish angel group to achieve a Nasdaq exit following this week’s successful listing of TC Biopharm on the New York-based stock exchange. Motherwell-headquartered TC Biopharm, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cell therapies i

Cynergy Bank has reached a lending milestone having grown to £3bn by continuing to support SME’s, property entrepreneurs and homeowners. The bank reached the milestone figure at the beginning of 2022 against a backdrop of two years of economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

Responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Karen McBride as its new head of finance and operations. Ms McBride joins SIS after spending nearly five years at Johnston Carmichael Glasgow where she progressed to audit director

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) has seen its membership grow by 15% in 2021, with the organisation seeing 12 new members join its ranks. The rise takes the total number of members to 92.

Burness Paull has completed a letting at BAM TCP Atlantic Square Limited’s 2 Atlantic Square, Glasgow, in the heart of the city’s International Financial Services District.

Hundreds of people have volunteered to be locked up in a brand-new prison as part of a test run for the facility.

New analysis from Grant Thornton has revealed that overseas interest was a significant force in deal activity in the UK retail sector in 2021, with overseas acquirors present in 43% of deals across the year, the highest level of activity seen in a decade.

Banking technology platform provider, BankiFi, has partnered with TSB to launch Revenu; an app, exclusive to TSB that will allow small businesses to receive quicker payments and to better manage their business finances. Revenu allows TSB’s business clients to collect customer payments from req

Real estate investment and development company MCR Property Group has acquired Europa House in Motherwell in its first purchase in Scotland of 2022.

HMRC has launched more than 20 criminal investigations involving crypto assets as it tries to defend itself against its rising crime levels encouraged by the unregulated market. The Daily Telegraph has reported that the tax authority is investigating a rising number of tax fraud and tax evasion case