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Glasgow-headquartered family investment business Turner has expanded its team to support the company’s growth ambitions. Murray Foggo, previously of AAB, joins as an investment executive, and Aaron Marshall from PWC takes up the role of portfolio manager. Both will support the investment team
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Scottish Financial Enterprise has appointed Arlene Stokes, chief people officer at Aegon UK, as chair of its Gender Equality Network. Based in Edinburgh, Arlene has held senior leadership roles across people and transformation in financial services and other sectors.
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Glasgow-headquartered family investment business Turner has expanded its team to support the company’s growth ambitions. Murray Foggo, previously of AAB, joins as an investment executive, and Aaron Marshall from PWC takes up the role of portfolio manager. Both will support the investment team
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Hero Media & Entertainment has announced the appointment of John Glover as editor of Scottish Financial News. He joins as Scotland's financial and related professional services sector continues to grow in scale and significance.
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A former trainee with Glasgow-based chartered accountants and chartered tax advisers Robertson Craig has been appointed Partner in the firm. Eilidh Kennedy steps up from the role of director, having first joined the company in 2006.
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Alistair Douglas has joined rockwealth Edinburgh after almost two decades with RBC Brewin Dolphin. Mr Douglas announced the move after nearly 20 years at the wealth management firm, where he built his career advising clients and developing long-term client relationships.
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Saffery has hired four new senior tax experts across its Edinburgh and Inverness offices to strengthen the firm’s expertise in corporate tax and professional partnerships. Emma Siegel joins from Forvis Mazars as a corporate tax director in Edinburgh. She brings more than 10 years’ experi
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Businesses are being encouraged to start preparing now for significant changes to how company accounts are prepared and filed, as a series of reforms begin to take effect. Advisory firm Azets says upcoming Companies House changes, alongside new UK GAAP requirements for presenting financial statement
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Scotland must capitalise on strong international investor sentiment and work to convert interest into new projects, according to industry leaders, after a new survey confirmed the country remains the UK's leading destination for foreign direct investment outside London. Sandy Begbie, chief executive
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Deloitte is planning to reduce its UK audit workforce by nearly 200 positions, marking the latest round of job cuts among the UK's major accounting firms. The company has introduced voluntary redundancy packages for certain employees due to unusually low staff turnover within its audit division. Whe
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EY has appointed ten new Partners in Scotland, demonstrating its continued commitment to the local market with significant further investments in talent and its office real estate. The new partner appointments follow a sustained period of investment in EY’s Scotland practice over the last year
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JRW Hogg & Thorburn has appointed Kirsten Hancock as Associate in Galashiels, Audrey Rankine as Associate in Peebles and Naomi Swan as Associate in Hawick. With 9 Partners and 7 Associates, the firm has 6 offices across the Scottish Borders and Edinburgh.
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Business activity fell across Scotland’s private sector midway through the second quarter, the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Growth Tracker has revealed. The headline RBS Business Activity Index – a seasonally adjusted index that measures the month-on-month change in the combined output
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A growing number of Scottish businesses say trading conditions are deteriorating, according to fresh data from MFMac’s business sentiment tracker, The View. The biannual survey of Scottish corporates found that one quarter (25%) of respondents said their most recent financial year had gone wor
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Cyber risk has surged to the top of the business agenda, with 40% of business leaders saying cyber is the top risk they are unprepared for – up from 23% in 2025, according to a new report from BDO. BDO’s Global Risk Landscape 2026 report found that cyber risk had jumped as organisations
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New lending data from Funding Circle has signalled a shift in how SMEs use external finance, with borrowing for tax payments, working capital and debt refinancing all rising significantly, while growth-focused lending loses ground. The findings, based on analysis of 2025 data, carry practical implic
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Business confidence in Scotland rose two points during May to 50%, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland. Companies in Scotland reported higher confidence in their own trading outlook month-on-month, up nine points at 62%. When taken alongside their optimism in the economy
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