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Simon Rubinsohn Sales activity in the Scottish residential market is easing, and a slow start to 2017 is expected due to a lack of stock, according to the November RICS Residential Market Survey.

David Ferguson Two new envoys have been appointed by the UK Government to build regional and national networks to help Scotland take advantage of the UK FinTech boom.

Scottish Equity Partners and Albion Ventures have sold their share in patient engagement, data capture and digital health solutions firm Exco InTouch for an undisclosed fee to ERT, a leading sector provider of high-quality patient data collection solutions for use in clinical drug development.

Fiona Hyslop MSP Film and TV producers spent a record £52.7 million shooting in Scotland in 2015.

(L-r) HSBC Bank Manager Stephen Horton and HSBC staff Eliza Swenarek with Jonny Sweet and Samantha Cosgrove of Barrhead Travel. HSBC has provided Edinburgh-based entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to showcase their businesses inside their local HSBC branch as part of the bank’s UK-wide Small Busin

Perran Jervis Scotland is one of just four regions identified by the UK's top 100 retailers as still having potential for more shops alongside the South West, the West Midlands and London according to a report by TLT and global retail research agency Conlumino.

David Archibald Scottish independent accountancy firm Henderson Loggie, which employs around 200 people across offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, has appointed a new director to lead its Internal Audit Team.

Martin Gilbert Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert has issued a warning to companies operating in the depressed North Sea oil and gas sector that a failure to invest, despite the downturn, “will come back to haunt” them.

Faye Mackay Johnston Carmichael has announced four senior staff promotions.

24 & 25 Charlotte Square The Charlotte Square Collection, a managed estate of 21 premium office properties on Edinburgh’s iconic Georgian square home to a number of major financial firms, has announced that it is planning a comprehensive refurbishment of two townhouses on the south terrace to

Tax advisers have welcomed the government’s announcement that proposals to penalise ‘enablers’ of tax avoidance schemes will be focused on abusive arrangements that “no one could mistake for a reasonable commercial arrangement.”

Katie Williams A lack of manpower to deal with onerous gender pay gap regulations could cause reputational damager to small and mid-sized oil and gas firms, says international law firm Pinsent Masons.

John Wilde Four-in-ten (38 per cent) small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have suffered cashflow problems over the past two years, according to new research by Amicus Commercial Finance.

While welcoming the clarification provided in draft legislation published this week concerning the types of trading or property business income which can benefit from proposed £1,000 allowance from the tax year 2017/2018, the Association of Tax Technicians has urged the UK Government to look again

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has today proposed changes to the way payment systems infrastructure is procured and provided, and is the latest step in a series of developments that is bringing wholesale change to UK payments.