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Grant Campbell With just a year to go until the biggest shakeup of data protection law in 20 years, 25 per cent of businesses and organisations in the UK are unaware of the new legislation and almost half have yet to start preparing for its introduction, according to a survey by Ipsos MORI and Scott

George Scott With today marking one year until General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, George Scott, Director of KPMG’s Cyber and Privacy practice in Scotland, highlights what business must do to ensure they don’t fall foul of the new legal framework

Scottish home buyers borrowed £1.8 billion for house purchase in the the first three months of this year, down 15 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 5 per cent year-on-year.

Anne Fairpo The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged the Taylor Review of employment practices to recommend a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship between taxation and the growth in non-standard work, such as people working in the ‘gig economy’.

The British Bankers Association’s latest high street banking data shows that consumer credit growth was 6.4 per cent in April, compared with 6.1 per cent in the previous month.

https://youtu.be/YISE37WiBvM Some of Britain’s biggest high street names, including John Lewis, Debenhams, New Look and Next, are forming a credit union designed to offer staff an alternative to the sky-high interest rates charged by payday lenders.

David McCreadie Edinburgh-based Tesco Bank has introduced its lowest ever tracker rate mortgage and reduced the rates on a selection of its 2, 3 and 5 year fixed rate products in a move that it says will help make it easier for customers to make a move on the property ladder or remortgage their curr

Edinburgh property group Lomond Capital has announced the purchase of a Birmingham property business Wolf’s Lettings and Estate Agency.

Orca, the independent data, research and analysis providers on the UK peer-to-peer lending market has today announced its plans to launch its own four-factor rating service for individual P2P providers, the Orca Rating.

The High Court Lawyers representing 9,000 Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders have this morning secured an adjournment for the third successive day at the High Court in London.

Neil McGill Cairngorm Capital Partners has announced the recruitment as Investment Director of Neil McGill from BDO where he was head of the firm's M&A advisory practice in Scotland.

Tom MacLennan FRP Advisory partners Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser have been appointed joint administrators of Hamilton Burns WS Limited, the Glasgow-based immigration, criminal, matrimonial and civil practice law firm.

Demand for temporary professionals in Scotland has risen by 4 per cent year on year to April 2017 according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

Glasgow’s suburbs are predicted to see the largest increase in average house prices in Scotland by 2021, according to new research released today Barclays.

Gordon Duncan Our latest Just a Minute series continues with Gordon Duncan, Scottish-based Partner at global insurance firm Lockton Companies LLP