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Paul Eagland Accountancy and business advisory firms, BDO and Moore Stephens LLP, are in advanced merger discussions to complete a deal that would see the creation of a firm to supplant Grant Thornton as the fifth-biggest player in Britain.

Andrew McRae The Scottish Government should set aside £75 million to help firms adapt to the UK leaving the European Union, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has urged Ministers.

Alison Rose Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced the launch of a new digital platform which will be available to all Royal Bank business and commercial customers allowing them to apply online for secured and unsecured loans of up to £750,000 – the largest digitally available loans in the in

Ged Killen Dr James Goodfellow CBE, the Scots inventor of the ATM and the PIN code has endorsed a bill by Labour MP Ged Killen which seeks to ban ATM charges and prevent financial exclusion.

Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group Stuart Robb and Julien Irving of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery Limited have been appointed joint administrators of Red Dog Music Limited.

Sandra White The chief executive of Adopt an Intern (AAI) will today tell its largest ever conference gathering in Glasgow that Scots businesses must strive to lead the UK in the creation of more ethnic employment opportunities.

The tough economic conditions which have engulfed Aberdeen for the last four years may be coming to an end with new figures indicating tentative signs of a recovery in the local property market.

Kate Cranston around 1903 The decision by Royal Bank of Scotland to make Kate Cranston (1849 – 18 April) the first woman - other than the Queen or Queen Mother - to feature on a Scottish £20 note has run into strong criticism after it emerged that tea room matron was said to have exploited her yo

Catherine Burnet The government-backed Hampton-Alexander Review for 2018 has revealed companies in the FTSE 100 index are on track – as a whole – to hit targets of women holding one-third of board level positions by 2020.

Joe Garner Nationwide has announced that it will launch a business bank account - with or without external competition funding - describing the project as an "opportunity too big to ignore".

Derek Pierce. MD, J&D Pierce Contracts was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2018 Summit Entrepreneurship Awards (Image: Robert Perry) Last night saw the winners of the inaugural Summit Entrepreneurship Awards at a stellar celebration dinner in Glasgow.

Darren Cairns (Imiage: Paul Chappells) Edinburgh-based fintech lending platform LendingCrowd has appointed Darren Cairns as the company’s new chief marketing officer (CMO).

180 West George Street Global business services specialist, Peninsula has taken the 8,324 sq ft fourth floor of 180 West George Street.

Roseanna Cunningham Community ownership should become a normal and realistic option for communities to acquire land and assets, according to recommendations on community ownership published today Friday 23 November, 2018.

Owner of the Ecocleen company Andrew Alleway (right) and David Moncur (left) Operations Commercial cleaning business Tidy Green Clean has taken ownership into the family, after completing a management buy-out with backing from Barclays.