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Mark Wilson Insurance giant Aviva, which employs 2,500 staff across hubs in Perth and Bishopriggs, has announced the sale of its entire shareholding in life insurance and pensions joint ventures Cajamurcia Vida and Caja Granada Vida to Bankia, in a £178 million deal.

Richard Davies TSB today announced a new partnership with small business network Enterprise Nation in an effort to boost the digital capability of small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Ged Killen It could take two decades for complaints by WASPI women to be investigated by the DWP, Scottish Labour has claimed.

Kirsty Ross Europe’s family businesses are more impacted than ever by the ‘war for talent’, the European Family Businesses (EFB) and KPMG Enterprise European Family Business Barometer has found.

Dumfries-based car dealership, Grierson & Graham, has secured a six-figure funding deal from Royal Bank of Scotland to assist in the expansion of its current premises.

More than 300 of Glasgow’s business people attended the Business Beats Cancer charity dinner last Thursday, raising over £80, 000 for Cancer Research UK and bringing the total raised to date to over £200,000.

Frank Field MPs have slammed the former finance director of collapsed construction giant Carillion for “dumping” his shares in the troubled company at the “first possible moment”.

Theresa Sharp Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has appointed two new investment managers, as it continues to grow its investments in charities and social enterprises.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced its first annual profit since it was bailed out by the UK taxpayer at a cost of £45 billion ten years ago.

Gordon McArthur Renfrewshire-based fintech firm Beeks Financial Cloud has doubled its underlying profits after posting £0.28 million pre tax profit for the six months to 31 December, up from the £0.13 million registered for the same period in 2016.

Court of Session A former part-time sheriff who experienced “despair, distrust and desolation” following the breakdown of his marriage has been given three months to allow him and his ex-wife to reach an agreement over their finances after she was granted a divorce without him knowing about it.

Martin Gilbert Edinburgh-based Standard Life Assurance Limited, one of the UK's oldest insurance companies having been founded in 1825, is to be sold for £3.24bn.

John Todd A top expert on Scottish taxation has set out what the country’s new income tax system will mean for business.

HM Revenue & Customs has this week published new guidance on how Scotland’s new income tax bands will affect pension schemes and their members.

A man who was jailed for two charges of tax fraud has been told he will have to repay the money.