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Around 800,000 UK small businesses have failed to become auto-enrolment compliant, according to new figures released by the Pensions Regulator.

(left to right) Craig Martin, Martin Gill and James Paterson (Photo: Malcolm McCurrach.) Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has announced the promotion of two new partners in Scotland.

Local bus operator First Aberdeen has become the first bus operator in Scotland to roll-out of contactless payments on its services.

Edel Harris Edel Harris, CEO of Aberdeen-based health and social care charity Cornerstone was named EY Scotland Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 overall winner at last night's Gleneagles awards ceremony.

From left to right: Pat Ramsay, Myles Edwards, Phil Anderson, and Louise Dingwall. A North-east financial services company has helped to provide Kenyan children with opportunities for a better future through a charitable donation.

The river Nith, Dumfries A new enterprise agency is to be created to address the economic needs of communities in the South of Scotland.

James McIlroy A privately held Scottish biotechnology company run by an undergraduate medical student at Aberdeen University, has raised £500,000 in an oversubscribed seed round of investment.

Caroline Gardner Scotland's colleges face several financial challenges, and potential difficulties from a declining student population, according to Audit Scotland.

Perth-based Braveheart Investment Group says it has had an ‘exceptional’ year after finally completing its transition from the red back into profit.

Sandy Begbie Edinburgh insurance giant Standard Life has been ranked as one of the Top 50 employers in the UK’s first-ever Social Mobility Employer Index, entering the new Index in fourth place.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £20.1 billion in May, according to latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, a 12 per cent increase on both April and on May last year, in which £17.9 billion was advanced.

The third World Forum on Natural Capital will take place later this year in Edinburgh, it has been announced.

Prof Gary McEwan Aberdeen City and Shire is once again the top region in Scotland for new business start-ups after breaking the record for a second year.

Adam Purvis (left) and Bruce Walker (right) outside the Fx team’s Leith office Three Edinburgh entrepreneurs have joined forces to help international entrepreneurs in a quest to "build a better world through business" by changing the way entrepreneurial ecosystems are built.

Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management this morning announced that their plan to merge and create the second largest fund manager in Europe has cleared its final hurdle after the Competition and Markets Authority gave its backing to the proposal. The news comes just days after shareholders in b