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Overall business confidence in May fell for the first time in three months, dipping four points to 10 per cent, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Business Barometer.

Scottish tech startup iOpt has received a £600,000 investment boost in a seed funding round, allowing the business to implement its ambitious scale up plans including the creation of six jobs over the next two years. The company's lead investor is Mactaggart & Mickel Investments, the inves

Andrew Foyle, Partner and Solicitor Advocate at Shoosmiths in Edinburgh, highlights why recent Sheriff Court judgments necessitate the need for asset finance lenders to carefully consider and even structure how they pursue debts through the courts.  

A three-year action plan to deliver Glasgow’s Social Enterprise Strategy has been approved by the local authority.

Agreements between businesses and individuals occur on a daily basis, but what does it take to make them legally binding? Peter Begbie, a solicitor at Brodies, explains  

A “flagship innovation centre” – the Michelin-Scotland Innovation Parc – is to be created on the site of the Michelin factory at Baldovie in Dundee through a joint venture between Michelin, Scottish Enterprise and Dundee City Council.  

Skypark, one of Scotland’s premier business locations based in Glasgow, has announced an ambitious plan that will see it transform into one of the most cycle friendly business destinations in Scotland, as part of its focus on providing high quality health and wellbeing facilities to its tenant

Police in the American state of Maine have revealed that a man who robbed a bank duped his own dad into being his getaway driving.

Scottish accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has announced five new partners as part of the firm’s growth strategy. John Mason, who is based in the firm’s Glasgow office, Richard Bathgate, and Stephen McIlwaine, located in Aberdeen, and Nicola Horsburgh and

Buccleuch Group has announced that it intends to sell about 25,000 acres of its Borders estate following a review of its land.

The fintech community in Scotland has now increased to over one hundred firms and continues the momentum from the start of the year when it was announced that the number of firms had trebled to 75 over the twelve months since the formation of FinTech Scotland at the beginning of 2018.

Private bank Weatherbys, which recently doubled the size of its Edinburgh office, has increased its pre-tax profits by 33 per cent from the previous year as client lending grew to record levels, climbing by 23 per cent to £475 million in the year to 31 December. The 249 year-old lender at

The number of commercial rent disputes reaching a third party in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level for more than five years, according to analysis from Knight Frank. Figures obtained by the independent commercial property consultancy from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) sho

Scottish Government leaders have told manufacturing businesses that they will be able to improve their productivity and upskill their workforce with support from a new £14 million fund.

A successful entrepreneurial hub on the south side of Aberdeen has expanded its footprint by 6000sqft, following increased demand for its state-of-the-art office facilities. Karen Pugh, property director at Elevator and Jim Milne, chairman and managing director of Balmoral Group