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Perth-based investment group Braveheart has confirmed full-year profits will be in line with its January forecast at around £750,000.

Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s largest and fastest growing peer-to-peer finance platforms, today announced record numbers in Scotland over the past 6 months as it pledged to invest heavily in the region going forward.

Callum Gray, Graeme Penman , Graeme Allan, Stuart Rose and Jonathan Clark. Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has announced the promotion of four members of their management team to senior manager positions.

The manager of an Edinburgh Post Office who had been for earmarked for promotion to area manager has admitted embezzling more than £134,000 from the branch where he worked.

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh, money advice trainer and consultant at Advice Scotland, summarises his new report on the Scottish government's faltering Debt Arrangement Scheme.

The average Scottish council spends less than a fifth of their procurement budget with local small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), according to data uncovered by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Neil Amnar Scottish Chambers of Commerce has called for a lowering of taxes and a commitment to safeguarding inward migration north of the border to bolster Scotland’s stuttering economy.

Vanessa Kennedy Scottish law firm Gilson Gray has appointed PwC marketing director Vanessa Kennedy to the same, though newly created role, with the Edinburgh headquartered lawyers.

The Scottish Government has welcomed commitments from the new owners of the Green Investment Bank on the future of the Edinburgh-based institution.

Tracey Black The CBI has appointed Tracy Black as its new deputy director in Scotland.

Gross mortgage lending in the UK reached £21.4 billion in March, according to The Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Blair Nimmo New analysis from professional services firm KPMG indicates positive signs for the Scottish economy, with a significant drop in the number of Scottish companies failing in the first three months of 2017.

John Whittle Bolton-based law firm, Keoghs, is to extend its geographic reach into Scotland in April with the opening of a Glasgow office in the heart of the city’s business district.

Philip Hammond UK chancellor Philip Hammond has hinted that the Treasury could finally be about to take a multi-billion-pound haircut and sell off its 73 per cent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland nearly a decade after rescuing it at a cost of £45 billion to the UK taxpayer.