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Irene Bisset PIB Insurance Brokers has named Irene Bisset as the latest member of its Scottish team.

Colin McCulloch, Johnston Clark and Paul Devine Blackadders LLP and Glasgow-based Boyle Shaughnessy, solicitors are to merge on 1 April 2016.

Aberdeenshire-based craft beer maker and crowdfunding pioneer BrewDog is to launch a new round fundraising, this time in America, to drive its operation across the Atlantic. The company reveals the plan after recently announcing that it has raised a record £13.5m in the fourth round of its UK Equit

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has pressed for a further 2 per cent cut in excise duty in next month's Budget as the trade body pointed out that whisky exports are worth almost £4 billion a year. SWA said the UK’s trade deficit of almost £35 billion would be 11 per cent larger without whisk

A Dundee printing firm is to close with the loss of 115 jobs just before celebrating 60 years in business. Flint Group said any rescue proposal needed to identify at least £3.6m worth of savings.

First-time buyers in Scotland are on average £1,440 (19 per cent) a year better off with their own home compared to those who rent, according to new research from the Bank of Scotland. The average monthly buying cost (including mortgage payments1) associated with a first-time buyer buying a three b

Edinburgh-based pensions giant Standard Life has reported that it is to increase its full-year dividend by 7.8 per cent rise on the back of a 9 per cent rise in pre-tax profits. The group said pre-tax operating profits hit £665 million last year, driven by a 10 per cent jump in fee-based revenues t

The number of homes worth at least £1 million is set to triple by 2030 across the country, a report predicts. The forecast would mean that by 2030, around one in every 20 (5.1 per cnt) homes in the UK is worth £1 million-plus, according to Santander Mortgages.

Short-term property finance lender LendInvest has announced plans to expand its operations into Scotland. The move will see the company’s existing residential bridging and short-term buy-to-let products made available to new Scottish property entrepreneurs seeking loans with a maximum 70 per cent

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £17.9 billion in January. This is 9 per cent lower than December’s lending total of £19.8 billion, but 21 per cent higher than the £14.8 billion lent in January last year.

The average price of a home in Scotland dipped last year, in contrast to the UK as a whole, according to new official figures. The average price of a typical UK home increased by £18,000 last year meaning that by December the average property was worth £ 288,000.

Edinburgh-based global investment manager Standard Life Investments has announced the appointment of Jonathan Kennedy as director of change and technology following a comprehensive selection process. Mr Kennedy joins from Virgin Money in the capital where he was chief operating officer.

Union Street, Aberdeen. Aberdeen’s hotel sector experienced its second successive monthly drop of over 40 per cent in year-on-year revenue in November, according to the latest report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

The Supreme Court has ruled a company’s VAT repayments, made after it overpaid VAT, are liable to corporation tax. The appellant, Shop Direct Group (SDG), is a company in the Littlewoods corporate group (the Group).

More Scots are in work than ever before, according to latest official labour market statistics released today. Office for National Statistics data for October to December 2015 show that the overall employment rate increased to 74.8 per cent, just outperforming the UK of of 74.1 per cent, and that th