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Sharon Hamilton With its dual talents for finance and technology, Scotland is increasingly becoming the location of choice for businesses says Sharon Hamilton, international sector head of financial services at Scottish Enterprise.

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Royal Bank of Scotland, the still more than 70 per cent government-owned bailed-out lender, has agreed to pay $129.6 million to America's National Credit Union Administration to resolve claims that it sold toxic residential mortgage-backed securities to corporate credit unions Members United and Sou

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The number of unemployed people in Scotland remained unchanged during the second quarter of 2015 at 164,000. According to official figures, between May and July, the unemployment rate stood at 5.9 per cent, compared with 5.5 per cent for the UK as a whole.

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Standard Life Employee Services Limited, the intellectual property holding arm of Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life, has been confirmed as the latest entrant to a new innovative league table ranking the UK’s companies by the value of their intellectual property (IP). The entry comes i

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Scotch Whisky has received legal protection in 17 African countries after an intellectual property organisation on the continent gave it geographical indication (GI) status.

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Edinburgh-based Standard Life Investments has announced plans to merge almost all the retail funds it took over last year after the acquisition of Ignis Asset Management. SLI acquired Ignis Asset Management for £390m in March 2014 boosting the firm’s assets in the first half of the year to more t

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Nicola Sturgeon The Biocity industrial tech incubator, Scotland’s latest proposed Enterprise Area, could see employment boosted by another 180 new jobs in the next five years.

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Atria One from Morrison Street Edinburgh Council has announced it has put its landmark Atria Edinburgh office development in the heart of the capital’s financial Exchange district, up for sale.

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Scotland's retailers face an “incredibly challenging” trading environment, with total sales "weak on all fronts" last month and down 2.4 per cent on last year, according to the latest SRC-KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor report. The report said that sales August 2015 marked a stark contrast to

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John Clark Motor Group (JCMG) has revealed last year as its best on record after selling a a “record” 24,000 vehicles and reporting an increase in turnover of 28 per cent to £604 million and operating profit, before interest, up to £12.3 million from £8.9 million in 2013. Pre-tax profit also

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New figures released by estate agents ESPC have revealed that the percentage of homes being marketed as ‘offers over’ in east and central Scotland has doubled over the last two years. Between June and August this year, 74 per cent of the properties came to market as ‘offers over’, compared w

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