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Eileen Blackburn Scottish accountancy firm French Duncan has promoted Eileen Blackburn to the new role of principal partner of its Edinburgh office as part of a "wide-ranging programme of change".

Private sector activity in Scotland returned to expansionary territory in October with incoming new business stabilising after a fall in September. New data supplied by the latest Bank of Scotland PMI showed numbers expanded further and backlogs of work declined, while incomplete business continued

John Kay A former economic adviser to the Scottish Government has claimed that Edinburgh will never recover from the trauma of the 2008 banking crisis and branded the damage done to the city’s banking sector a “tragedy”.

Calum Bennie Staff turnover at Scottish Friendly has come in for scrutiny following a series of high-profile departures at the finance firm.

Wealthy foreign real estate investors shying away from the ballooning costs in London are sinking almost £1.4 billion a year into Scotland. With many property experts believing London is nearing a property bubble, property group JLL say Scottish real estate has received the highest amount of non-do

House prices in Scotland are set to jump by almost one-fifth over the next five years, according to Savills. The estate agents has cited the economic recovery that is spreading across the UK as reason for its prediction that the average Scottish property will cost £160,339 by the end up 2020 – 14

A sharp fall in new car sales in Scotland has been recorded for October with the recent emissions scandal surrounding Volkswagen cited as a contributory factor. Data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) recorded a total of 13,459 registrations in October - down by 17.1 per cent

Pat Denzler A well-known Edinburgh businesswoman has been appointed to the lead role in Scotland’s pre-eminent livery company which represents forty-three professions in the Capital.

The controversial Uber taxi app will launch in Edinburgh today after the company reported "huge demand" for the service in the city. The move also comes after bosses said that they were “blown away” with its reception in Glasgow following its launch there last month.

Helen Goodman A Labour MP has accused the British Government of “rewarding their cronies and cheating the taxpayer” through its decision to sell-off the first tranche of state-owned shares in Royal Bank of Scotland.

A Scottish stock market trader is facing fraud charges in the US over allegations that he created fake tweets to mislead the market. US authorities claim the bogus tweets were intended to manipulate the stock prices of two companies.

A series of recommendations made following an inquiry into the spiralling costs of the V&A Dundee project have now been implemented, according to a new report.

Royal Bank of Scotland has been forced to deny allegations that it falsified documents in order to pay lower levels of compensation to small businesses which were mis-sold complex interest rate hedging products. The still 73 per cent state-owned bank refuted the claims made by The Times newspaper th

The recent decline in Scotch Whisky exports is slowing, with industry revenue from shipments in the first half of the year totalling £1.7 billion. According to the Scotch Whisky Associaiton, encouraging trends are starting to develop in several key markets despite continuing economic headwinds, pol

Andrew Paterson, Hugh Younger and Sean Cockburn. Edinburgh-based private client law firm Murray Beith Murray has announced the appointment of Sean Cockburn to tax director and Andrew Paterson to partner.