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The UK's inflation rate has hit a four-year low as the coronavirus lockdown restrictions pushed the rate down to 0.5% in May.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed the top scams fraudsters are committing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Firms must do more to ensure they are always giving appropriate advice to equity release consumers, a review conducted by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found. 

Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is auctioning off a one-to-one Zoom date in a bid to raise money for charity. The A-List actor is offering a 15-minute video call, which has been dubbed “15 Minutes of Fame with Keanu Reeves”.

An established investment and asset management joint venture (JV) between ICG Real Estate and its Scottish partner Ambassador Group, has taken control of Edinburgh's Ocean Terminal with plans to inject £10 million into the shopping centre. 

Cowgills has been appointed administrators of Aberdeen Market Village, throwing many of the city's market traders into uncertainty.  The firm has issued a statement confirming that the premises was placed into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation on June 11 and has now ceased trading.

Leading Scottish financial services executive Neil Easson has joined the board of the Scottish Building Society. Mr Easson has more than 20 years’ experience in the sector, having held a range of senior positions at Lloyd’s Banking Group.

Scotland's unemployment rate is now the highest in the UK, according to the latest Labour Market Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Aberdeen-based swarf management specialists ROMAR International has appointed Alan Shanks as its new chief financial officer. Mr Shanks took up his new role on June 1 this year, in a move which the firm said would add further strength to the board and executive leadership team.

Edinburgh tech start-up PicoJar has successfully completed a £146,000 pre-seed funding round led by Techstart Ventures and backed by Skyscanner founder Gareth Williams. The firm, which was founded by former Amazon and Skyscanner software engineer Siwei Kang, is behind an AI-powered note-t

The UK is a world-leading FinTech centre, with London often being labelled the global FinTech capital. From a Scottish perspective, over the past couple of years both Edinburgh and Glasgow have been establishing themselves as FinTech powerhouses. Allie McGowan looks below at some of the ways that CO

A total of 60% of Scottish SMEs are experiencing drops in revenue and 73% have put the brakes on investment decisions, according to a survey conducted by Newable, a business advice and funding service.

Andrew Hill, lease advisory partner at Knight Frank's Edinburgh office, details the importance of collaboration between landlords and tenants during the coronavirus crisis. Times of extreme economic pressure tend to place a strain on business relationships. In the COVID-19 crisis we currently face,

Nationwide Building Society has offered around 200 redundancy packages to its staff in an attempt to avoid compulsory lay-offs. The lender, which is the UK's biggest building society, currently employes around 17,000 staff and hopes that enough employees will sign up for the redundancy programme, or

The government must introduce a new ‘jobs guarantee fund’ and expand apprenticeship, college and university places to protect the ‘COVID class of 2020’, according to research published today by IPPR Scotland.