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Edinburgh-based crowdfunding platform The LendingCrowd has reported a post-Brexit vote boom for its business.

Robin Knox Intelligent Point of Sale, the young Scottish start-up that developed the UK’s first cloud-based, iPad electronic point of sale (EPOS) app, expects to see more than £4 million and 750,000 transactions handled through its software at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Scotland is seeing a rise in graduate recruitment but businesses have warned over the quality of careers guidance and university leavers’ readiness for the world of work, a new survey carried out by the CBI has found.

Property sales in the Scottish Borders have remained healthy over the last three months, according to CKD Galbraith.

Britain’s decision to leave the EU has resulted in the steepest drop in permanent job placements in Scotland since 2009, according to a survey covering July.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has today reported a £2 billion loss for the first six months of the year.

UK interest rates have today been cut from 0.5 per cent to 0.25 per cent - a record low and the first cut since March 2009 when they were slashed in a bid to cushion the UK economy from the global financial crisis.

BDO, the liquidators of the original incarnation of Glasgow football club, Rangers, has revealed that the cost of the liquidation process of the club has risen by almost £2.2 million since April last year, hitting the overall amount that can be made available to its creditors.

New figures released by Debt Advisory Centre show that just over 1 million adults in Scotland think that they have a debt problem. Of those, nearly three quarters say that they worry about their debt all or most of the time, with their mental wellbeing the most affected area.

Devan Kaloo Devan Kaloo, head of global emerging markets at Aberdeen Asset Management, offers his current views on the outlook for emerging markets.

The number of debt judgements recorded against consumers in the Scottish courts increased again during the first half of the year, continuing the trend from the same period in 2015.

David Frost The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) the industry body for Scotch producers has warned that exports of the national drink could face increased tariffs in some countries in the wake of the vote to leave the UK.

Hugh Boyle On the two year anniversary of the close of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, the city’s hospitality industry is in a better place than ever before.

Men retiring this year will have around £5,400 a year more than women in their pensions, according to Prudential.

The volume of Retail Sales in Scotland increased by just 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 and grew by 3.2 per cent annually, according to latest statistics announced by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.