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Paul Sloane Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based active equity specialist, has confirmed that Paul Sloane, a highly-experienced Global Portfolio Manager with over 19 years’ investment experience will re-join the business within its well-established and successful Global Emerging Markets (“GEMs”)

The director of a company that operated a Japanese-Chinese restaurant in Glasgow has been disqualified by the Insolvency Service for hiring an illegal worker.

Ken Patullo A dramatic increase in the percentage of Scottish construction firms showing advanced signs of financial distress in the second quarter of 2018 highlights the downturn being faced by the sector, according to the latest quarterly Red Flag Alert data released today by business rescue and r

Barclays has today announced plans to develop a new campus at Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow, which its says will provide a state-of-the-art workplace for the bank’s functions, technology and operations teams.

A former administration building at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen is to undergo a £1.5 million refurbishment to create a dedicated regional hub for digital and entrepreneurship activity.

Last year saw record-breaking numbers of tourists visiting the UK, but the number of those coming for business has fallen back, new official data has revealed.

Recent research by PwC has indicated that house prices in Scotland are going to escalate by 20 per cent in the next 5 years, property investment company Grant Property is predicting that the student buy-to-let market in Scotland will skyrocket too, especially as it can make money for the student an

Bruce Fletcher Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed Bruce Fletcher as its new group chief risk officer, subject to final regulatory approval.

Around one in 10 people planning to retire this year expect to withdraw their entire pension savings as one lump sum, risking a potential tax bill shock and their future retirement income, new research from Prudential’s Class of 2018 has revealed.

The number of people moving home in Scotland has returned to levels seen in 2016 following a brief growth spell last year, with only 15,300 current homeowners moving home in the first half of 2018 according to Bank of Scotland’s Homemover Review.

Bruce Cartwright Controlling costs is currently the biggest worry for finance chiefs, according to a new survey of finance directors and CFOs by accountancy body ICAS.

Turcan Connell is more than doubling the size of its Glasgow office due to rising client demand in the city.

Fergus McDiarmid Morton Fraser has been named as a provider of legal services in Scotland for Curtis Banks, the UK’s largest provider of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP).

The UK government has announced that it will make an annual payment to thousands of military personnel based in Scotland to make up the difference on their income tax bill that has resulted from recent tax changes north of the border.

Demand for banking & insurance professionals in Scotland rose by 24 per cent year-on-year to June 2018, according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).