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A sustained three-day-long cyber attack designed to overwhelm the systems and disrupt the digital services of Lloyds Banking Group has been defeated by the lender’s cyber defences.

FRP Advisory partners Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan have been appointed joint administrators at Inverness-based self-build home business, Roy Homes Ltd, and its sister company, Roy Homes Timber Frame Ltd.

Tim Cooper Scotland’s hospitality sector has had a strong start to the year, with its restaurants and pubs less at risk of insolvency than the UK average, according to research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Maggie's Centre Aberdeen Aberdeen Asset Management has provided a Granite City cancer support centre with a four figure sum at a time when an increasing number of people whose lives are affected by cancer are turning to it for help and support.

Atlas, Centralpoint. Buccleuch Property has sold a 56,508 sq. ft production and warehouse facility at Atlas, Centralpoint near Glasgow, for £4.575 million.

Brexit preparations, macroeconomic uncertainty and cyber-security threats are 2017’s top-three concerns for UK asset managers, according to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey.

The number of cases of alleged fraud reaching Scottish courts in 2016 fell from 12 to 9, but the value of loss was more than five times greater than in 2015, rising from £4.7 million to £24.3 million, driven by a large (£18 million) case of investment fraud, according to new research from KPMG.

Annabel Brodie-Smith With the FTSE 100 reaching record highs in January, research published today by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) using data provided by Winterflood Investment Trusts shows that a significant proportion of the investment company sector reached share price highs this

James Anderson The co-manager of the Edinburgh-based Scottish Mortgage Trust has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minster Theresa May in which he compares her to Hitler and Stalin.

Acumen FP team receive their award from guest speaker Gyles Brandreth. Aberdeen-based Acumen Financial Planning has been awarded the 'New Model Adviser of the Year Award - Scotland & Northern Ireland Region' for 2017.

Bruce Stephen By Bruce Stephen, head of banking & finance at Scottish corporate and commercial law firm Brodies LLP.

Liz Murray A list of the world’s wealthiest economic entities has revealed that while Scotland comes in at number 158 that is still behind 116 corporations, including well known names such as Walmart, Shell and Amazon.

Graham Drysdale Scottish law firm Brodies LLP has appointed three new partners, recognised leaders in the fields of infrastructure projects, real estate finance and corporate and personal tax. Heather Thompson is a trust and tax specialist, whose experience spans a wide range of taxation matters acr

Lord Woolman The liquidators of a distribution services company which sold its principal asset for half its market value have failed in a legal challenge against the transaction. A judge rejected the claim that the sale amounted to a “gratuitous alienation” and ruled that the price paid was “a

Betsy Williamson Scottish financial sector companies served by weak recruitment models will struggle to attract the best talent in 2017, as the uncertainty surrounding Brexit continues to dampen the market.