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More than 60 per cent of smaller businesses in the UK prioritise trading in EU markets while one in five small exporters trade exclusively with the EU, according to new research by the Federation of Small Businesses.

At least one in four large businesses in the UK are considering transferring some activities to elsewhere in the EU as a result of Brexit, according to a poll of finance professionals carried out by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Commercial finance provider for SMEs, IGF, has provided a £2 million asset based lending line to Insite Contracts Ltd, a high-end office fit out and refurbishment company based in Scotland.

The Board of Beyond is comprised of 7 people. In addition to Max Ward there is Ravi Sharma (ex-Deloitte), Vic Herd (ex-Deloitte), Sarah Barker (ex-Aldermore), Andrew Townsend (ex-Beacon), Nick Slack (ex-Aldermore) and Matt McDermott (ex-Metro). Two leading figures at Deloitte have left their roles a

Edinburgh Quay Scotland’s commercial property market could welcome a number of new international investors over the next 12 months, particularly among private overseas buyers, Knight Frank has said.

The volume of house sales across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire has increased for the first time in three years, though prices continue to fall, the Press and Journal reports. The number of houses sold in the first ten weeks of 2017 has increased by nearly 7 per cent from 940 last year to 1,002 this yea

Investment trust Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon rose in value by 34 per cent last year, The Herald reports. The £258 million trust saw its asset value per share rise by 34 per cent over the year to 31 January 2017. Its comparative MSCI Japan Small Cap index advanced 34.9 per cent in sterling terms.

Neil Crabb Edinburgh-based Frontier IP, which specialises in the commercialisation of intellectual property, has completed a £3 million share issue to accelerate its growth in the UK and overseas.

The Scottish Government should explore the creation of a new Scottish National Investment Bank, delegates at the SNP's national conference have said. Party delegates gave unanimous backing on Friday to a motion which said the devolved government should be "examining the feasibility and the creation

Martin Gilbert The proposed merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management will create "a world-class investment company", Aberdeen's co-founder and chief executive Martin Gilbert has said.

A paralegal who embezzled more than £40,000 from the estate of her ex-husband’s great aunt has been sentenced to 13 months in jail. Alison Jackson, 44, who was employed by Thorntons, was caught when the firm audited the accounts of her clients, finding one deceased client’s account had been us

The value of the UK consumer games market reached a record £4.33 billion in 2016, showing a growth of 1.2 per cent from 2015.

Housing prices in Scotland increased only marginally in January, up £137 (0.1 per cent), to make the average home in the country worth £171,407, according to Your Move.

The director of a Motherwell fire safety and security firm director and his ex-wife have been jailed for a total of six years and nine months for stealing £815,000 tax, National Insurance and VAT after they were investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

A Dundee branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland held fraud awareness training for customers yesterday as a part of UK-wide education initiative involving all major banks, building societies and other financial service firms.