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Ken Patullo Businesses in Scotland saw a very mixed final quarter of 2016, according to data released today by business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor, with some sectors seeing improvements whilst other industries were battered by the uncertainty in the economy.

Scots will wait an average 2.4 extra days for their January income, after being paid early last month – the longest January ‘payday gap’ in Britain.

Aberdeen Asset Management has successfully closed on £120 million for its latest Asia Pacific property investment fund.

A bookkeeper at a Glasgow construction firm has admitted to embezzling more than £370,000 and causing some colleagues to be made redundant as a result.

As with the Scottish housing market as a whole, the number of properties being sold in west central Scotland has decreased, partly as a result of a shortage of properties available for sale.

Philip Hammond UK Chancellor Philip Hammond has described the state’s 70 per cent stake in bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland as a “long-term asset”, dashing any hopes of a sell-off in the near future.

Scottish accountancy firm Campbell Dallas has worked closely with long-standing client, Fleet Alliance, a Glasgow-based vehicle leasing company, on it acquisition of Neva Consultants.

Paul Pester Nearly 8000 TSB staff are set to share £28 million after a third year of growth at the challenger bank.

Mark Wyllie Wealth management group St. James’s Place has seen new business inflows grow over the last quarter to £3.3 billion, up 30 per cent in the quarter and taking the total for the year to £11.4 billion, up 23 per cent.

The best young sales talent in the UK will compete in a national university contest where selling skills are honed and students receive candid feedback on their abilities from corporate executives.

Scotland’s police force has been described as “an organisation in crisis” after the Auditor General’s told a Holyrood committee there is a £200 million deficit in the budget. Caroline Gardner, the Auditor General for Scotland, reported last month that the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), w

Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced a fresh multi-billion-dollar hit to its balance sheet weeks before it reveals its 2016 full-year results.

Falkirk Sheriff Court (Google) A former bank manager who had been set to stand trial accused of aiding an alleged £112,400 customer account fraud has walked free from court after being fined over a lesser data breach charge.

Alasdair Steele Investment in Scottish commercial property held up in 2016 despite an unpredictable 12 months, according to figures released by Knight Frank.

Julie Hesketh-Laird Scotch whisky generates nearly £5 billion a year for the UK economy, according to new research commissioned by The Scotch Whisky Association.