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Barclays has announced the latest step in its strategy to reduce its non-core business in order to focus on its UK and US banking operations with the sale of its risk analytics and index unit to Bloomberg in a £615 million deal. The banking giant said it would make a pre-tax gain of about £535 mil

Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands.

Gillian Guy People accessing their retirement savings are being caught out by unexpected taxes and welfare reductions, reveals research from Citizens Advice.

Gross mortgage borrowing in the UK during July hit £12.6 billion, a year-on-year rise of 6 per cent, according to latest data from the British Bankers Association.

Antonio Horta-Osario Lloyds Banking Group chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio has apologised to the Edinburgh-based banking group's staff for the damage caused to the firm as a result of reports concerning his personal life.

A new £35 million private funding facility has been designed to support plans to build over 480 homes for social and mid-market rent in Leith and North Edinburgh by 2020.

Business confidence in Scotland is now at its lowest level since the last recession, according to new research.

Blair Nimmo KPMG has been appointed administers of Aberdeen-based subsea and surface engineering company CIE Well Control.

David Mundell Scotland's public spending deficit has held at about £15 billion in the past financial year, according to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) figures published today.

Scottish home buyers borrowed £2.2 billion for house purchase during the second quarter of the year, up 23 per cent on the first three months of 2016 but down 1 per cent year-on-year.

High Court Edinburgh A man who claimed he was unaware that a document he signed included an indemnity has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to dismiss his case.

The Clark Communications team Clark Communications and Golley Slater Scotland, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Golley Slater Group, are to merge, it was announced today.

Aberdeen Asset Management has said it welcomes a UK court ruling that has backed a bid to split brewing giant SABMiller’s shareholders into two groups ahead of a vote on its £79 billion takeover by Budweiser brewer AnheuserBusch InBev (ABInbev).

Doug More Global asset management firm Baillie Gifford, which has assets under management of £130 billion, has appointed Edinburgh-based Assure APM to gain greater forensic insight and control of its IT systems.

Spending on contactless cards in the first half of 2016 has already outstripped contactless spending for the whole of 2015, new figures show.