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Southern Scotland is to get its own enterprise agency after all parties in Holyrood backed the bill to establish the body at its final stage.

Insurance giant Aviva, which employs 2,500 staff across hubs in Perth and Bishopbriggs, has today announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs across its operations worldwide over the next three years in a cost cutting and restructuring drive. The company said it is targeting costs savings of £300m a yea

UK consumers are taking a ‘pick n mix’ approach to how they make payments, with mobile banking, mobile payments and contactless all becoming increasingly popular, research by UK Finance has revealed.

The growing range of video streaming services available to viewers; demand for internet access and business spend on internet advertising will drive the UK’s entertainment and media sector to grow by £10bn over the next five years.

Research by national fast sale estate agent, Springbok Properties, has looked at the cost of living near to one of the UK’s top 20 festivals for those who can’t face glamping let alone a weekend in a festival campsite and how house prices have performed since last year’s festival s

Donna Nairn, Alan Burns and Sarah Fergusson of William Duncan & Co's Ayr office took on The Mighty Stride at this years Glasgow Kiltwalk at the weekend.

An ‘invisible door’ that has the potential to save British retailers a combined £1.5 billion per year by reducing their energy bills is to be introduced by Waitrose.

Independent accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has launched a Dundee office as part of a strategic expansion of its operations. The firm has established a new hub in the city to provide bespoke services to Dundee’s growing sectors including technology and life scie

Dundee-based pension specialist Curtis Banks, which acquired the full SIPP business of Alliance Trust Savings in 2013, has announced further expansion plans in the city after reporting that profits almost doubled last year. Newly published accounts show sales at the firm rose by £2.5 million t

Alisdair Matheson, an insurance and risk partner with Brodies LLP, has been appointed president of the Insurance & Actuarial Society of Glasgow (IASG) – the first lawyer to take up the position in the body's 138-year history. The IASG is a training, mentoring and support net

The redevelopment of the B-listed Kingston House at Buchanan Wharf in Glasgow to create a major fintech hub for Barclays will now save most of the structure, under newly revised plans.

Just £3.2 million out of a £200 million fund announced more than a year ago to help Scottish businesses has been spent, it has emerged. Kerry Sharp, head of the government’s national investment bank, admitted to the Economy Committee that just a handful of deals had been concluded

Unique events are taking place in Edinburgh and Glasgow this week to help legal, accounting and banking professionals in the cities and wider regions to offer clients information and advice on employee ownership. The Law Society of Scotland, Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) and Co-

Nationwide Building Society has joined forces with a charity to help raise £7 million needed to create a spectacular memorial for those who took part in the D-Day landings.

A new social enterprise aimed at providing the best mobile telecommunications solutions for charities has been launched in Dundee. The first dedicated mobile social enterprise in Scotland, Good Call aims to remove the mobile communications barriers facing charities, social enterprises and