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The Scottish housing market was still subdued in March, a picture that has been evident in the sales market for several months now, according to the RICS UK Residential Market Survey, March 2019.

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce has promoted Charandeep Singh to the new role of deputy chief executive as the business group focuses on growing the reach of the Scottish Chamber Network nationally and internationally. Mr Singh will take on the newly created role with immediate effect.

Campaigners are calling on the Scottish Government to support major changes to prevent tenants being “forced into poverty by sky-high rents” after a survey pointed towards huge public support for the action. Excluding respondents who said they don’t know, three-quarters o

Twelve Highland business leaders have been selected to take part in the next IMPACT30 programme delivered by accountancy firm Anderson Anderson and Brown (AAB) in conjunction with Highland and Islands Enterprise. IMPACT30 is a 12-month fully funded business growth programme which aims to support the

Africa's richest man, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, has told of how he once took $10 million in cash out of the bank and take it home just to look at it.

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has strengthened its tax practice in Scotland by appointing a new corporate tax partner, based in Glasgow. Kal Sangha joins RSM from KPMG where he was a director in the tax team advising a broad portfolio of clients ranging from large corporate

A Scottish accountant who embezzled more than £221,000 from a handful of Scottish sporting estates to fund his gambling and drinking habits has been jailed. Matthew Varley was caught after he left his job at property consultants Galbraith in June 2015 and his successor at the company spotted t

The number of store closures across Scotland’s high streets has fallen to its lowest level in the last six years, but the country’s most popular shopping areas are still seeing more than five stores per week close their doors. The performance in 2018 means there has been a net loss of mo

Debenhams' administration is simply the latest sign of longstanding problems within the retail sector, according to accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP. Debenhams was this week taken over by its lenders as part of an administration process after the store chain rejected two last-ditc

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Chartered Bank £102,163,200 for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) breaches in two higher risk areas of its business. The penalty is the second largest financial penalty for AML controls failings ever imposed by the FCA.

A third of accountants currently see AI as all or mostly hype, while nearly 60 per cent say that in three years’ time it will become a reality, according to global research amongst nearly 2,000 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) members in 111 countries. The findings ar

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has announced that it is again collaborating with Turing Fest on the NextGen Founders network, to bring Scottish tech startups, partners and investors together to connect and inspire. In advance of the first NextGen dinner of 2019, RSM welcomed eight founders

Revised plans for a crucial part of a massive regeneration of Ravenscraig have been approved by the Glasgow City Region councils. North Lanarkshire Council said the Ravenscraig Infrastructure Access (RIA) project will generate more than 6,500 jobs and around £360 million per year for the

New official data published today has revealed that the UK economy had a better-than-expected February as GDP grew 0.2 per cent month-on-month despite heightened Brexit uncertainties and weakened global growth. There was a marked lift to activity in February in the form of Brexit-fuelled stockpiling

In a year that saw the Beast from the East batter UK homes, insurance giant Aviva has today revealed that it also dealt with a range of unusual claims from its customers including damage caused by a hapless burglar who locked himself in a garden shed and a holidaying customer who had their mobile ph