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Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary NatWest has announced the launch of a brand new initiative supporting female entrepreneurs throughout the UK in a national first. The crowdfunding programme, entitled ‘Back Her Business’ has been developed in partnership with established provider, C

The unemployment rate north of the border fell to a new record low over the winter months, according to official figures released today.

A Scottish independent pub group has launched a bid to raise £20m to fund its expansion through acquisitions. The Edinburgh-based Bruce Group Scotland Ltd, which owns 19 pubs in and around the capital, is issuing a £20m bond to fund growth over the next few years.

A new fundraising opportunity for community groups and businesses has been set up through the Scottish Borders’ European Union-funded LEADER programme. Working with eight other LEADER areas across Scotland, Scottish Borders LEADER is offering support for community groups and businesses who wan

The most recent quarterly house price statistics published by the Registers of Scotland (ROS), covering the period from October to December 2018, revealed that the average price of a residential property in Scotland was £181,820, which was a 3.2 per cent increase compared with the same period

Seven Hills Business Park in Sighthill, to the west of Edinburgh, has been sold to UBS Asset Management's (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM)’s Triton Property Fund LP (Triton) for £15 million. Previously owned by Peveril Securities in a joint venture with Citivale, Seven H

The Lionel Messi of the pigeon world has been sold for a record fee of more than £1 million.

More than 50 jobs have been saved after Aberdeen-headquartered supplier of offshore accommodation modules Aiken Group was bought out of administration in a pre-pack deal achieved by administrators KPMG. KPMG was called in after Aiken’s directors had failed to secure fresh funding to help the c

The Scottish-European Growth Co-Investment Programme (SEGCP) has delivered £6.12m of equity investment to the first cohort of companies to come through the process, facilitating investment rounds totalling £16.26m. The Programme is delivered by the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) –

Interserve, the a multinational group of support services and construction companies, has been bought out of administration by a consortium of its lenders. The contractor filed for administration on Friday after shareholders voted down a deleveraging plan put forward by

Laura McIntosh has joined international law firm CMS as a partner after 12 years at Dickson Minto. Ms McIntosh, who is based in CMS’s Edinburgh office, specialises in mergers & acquisitions and private equity deals.

New housing developments built in city centres have the potential to stimulate 50 per cent more economic growth than similar developments located at urban fringes, according to a new report. The study, conducted by KPMG’s specialist Infrastructure, Building and Construction team, rai

Alasdair McKinnon, manager of the Scottish Investment Trust, discusses his recent trip to China and the different investment opportunities he sees in the region  

A team who developed a concept for personalised, accessible and incentivised mental health support in the workplace have been announced as the overall winners of Datathon, an intensive 24-hour open and financial data competition hosted by Deloitte and featuring some of Scotland’s top data scie

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has welcomed the publication of a Scottish Government consultation aimed at improving devolved tax policy making. With a CIOT poll last year finding that four-fifths of Scots need better information over how taxes are decided in Scotland, the Institute added that