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Poonam Gupta Scottish Chambers of Commerce has welcomed some of Scotland's best known business people and entrepreneurs to its board of directors.

Alison Rose NatWest has today announced an additional £2 billion of funding for businesses as they prepare for the Brexit process.

PwC is in settlement talks with the accountancy regulator the Financial Reporting Council over its auditing of an IT Services firm that saw the "Big Four" firm miss a £21 million hole in the company's books.

Gordon MacLure Gordon MacLure and Donald McNaught of Johnston Carmichael have been appointed as joint administrators of underwater training and trials centre The Underwater Centre in Fort William.

A Glasgow duo have escaped to the country and taken ownership of the Whitebridge Hotel on Loch Ness, thanks to a funding package from Barclays.

Blair Nimmo The number of large businesses failing in Scotland fell by almost a third (29 per cent) in the last quarter (July-September) compared to same period in 2017 (17 down from 24).

Dundee-based wealth manager Alliance Trust has sold its flat-fee platform Alliance Trust Savings to Interactive Investor in a £40 million dealt that will also see control of Alliance Trust’s office building in Dundee change hands.

The overwhelming majority of larger companies in Scotland believe climate change poses a risk to their business, according to new figures published today.

With third-quarter corporate insolvency statistics to be published this week and likely to show a continued rise in the number of business failures in Scotland, Eileen Blackburn, head of restructuring and debt advisory at French Duncan, looks at what the trend can mean The first two quarters have se

Colin Dempster The third quarter of 2018 generated half of all profit warnings for Scottish listed companies this year, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings report.

UK consumer confidence fell by three percentage points in the third quarter of 2018, down to -7 per cent after the previous quarter’s record level of confidence, according to the latest Deloitte Consumer Tracker.

Nicholas Crapp The RBS Group has submitted a supportive response to the UK government's consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in England and Wales.

A new direct route from Edinburgh to Boston will be introduced next summer, Edinburgh Airport has announced. The daily Delta Air Lines flight to Logan International Airport will come into operation from May 24 and will complement the airline’s existing daily New York-JFK route.

Blair Nimmo Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG have been appointed as joint administrators of First Furnishings Limited (FFL), a furniture company with premises in West Lothian and Glasgow.

Thomson Cooper Accountants will analyse the final pre-Brexit Budget at two seminars in Edinburgh and Dunfermline at the end of the month. The free events, in Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 October at 8am and in Dunfermline at 11am, are aimed at providing the business community with a concise commentary i