Search: Jason Windsor becomes interim chief at Abrdn

Global commercial real estate services firm Avison Young has announced the acquisition of UK-based real estate advisory business GVA. GVA's offices, including those in Glasgow and Edinburgh, will now come under the Avison Young brand.

activpayroll, the global payroll and tax compliance specialist headquartered in Aberdeen, experienced 20% revenue growth YoY in 2020 / 21. The increase in revenue came as the firm provided additional services to existing customers and adding a host of new global customers all looking to take advanta

PwC has announced the appointment of Jon Shelley as head of deals for Scotland amid a high level of activity in Scotland, across the UK and internationally. Mr Shelley replaces Jason Morris, who was recently appointed as regional market leader for PwC Scotland. Mr Shelley was previously head of corp

Tweed Wealth Management has touched down on a recruitment strategy to identify former rugby stars to be trained as high-performance financial planners for their fast-expanding business. The Edinburgh-based company now has three ex-professional rugby players on their team sheet – a winning comb

The Entrepreneurial Scotland Foundation has appointed three trustees to its board who will join this summer. Non-executive director of Scottish Golf, Caroline Mansley, CEO of Inspiring Scotland, Celia Tennant, and Jason McGibbon, non-executive director of Scottish National Investment Bank will join

Pictured: PwC Scotland’s regional market leader, Jason Morris (centre), joined by YLVC’s fundraising engagement managers for scotland, Carol Jones and Scott Gibbins; and members of PwC Scotland’s Empowering Communities Committee, Katrina Murray (far left) and Margo Connell (far rig

Burness Paull has bolstered its rural business offering with the addition of a six-person team led by agriculture and estates specialist Linda Tinson. Ms Tinson has been appointed as a partner in Burness Paull’s real estate division and head of the firm’s expanded rural business practice

Edinburgh-based Waverton Wealth has been awarded Regional Wealth Manager of the Year for Scotland and Northern Ireland at the 2024 City of London Wealth Management Awards (COLWMA). Waverton Wealth, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasogw, offers a range of bespoke strategies to fit its diver

Friends Reunited, the online social networking pioneer bought by ITV for £175 million and then sold to Dundee publishing company DC Thomson, is to close. Steve Pankhurst, one of the site’s founders, said it is still used by some but is “no longer used for the purpose it was built for”.

Plans have been unveiled by Wallace Land Investments for a new village with 3,600 homes on a swathe of land surrounding Heriot-Watt University in the west of Edinburgh. Developers said the ‘Riccarton Village’ would be an “exemplar for sustainable development” h

London-based fintech startup, Glint, has gone into administration.

A playhouse listed on Airbnb as a joke has been booked by a family of four for a weekend break.

Fresh Car Valeting, an Edinburgh-based car care startup, is planning to achieve UK-wide coverage by targeting 31 million car owners nationwide in a market valued at over £1.2 billion. Founded by Sam Brennan in 2015 from the back of his father’s car in Edinburgh, the recent Scottish EDGE

Aberdeen-based activpayroll, the provider of integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, today announced its partnership with Zalaris, supporting medium- and large size organizations with cloud-based payroll and HR BPO services globally. Together, the two companies will provide a new standard

Only Fools and Horses character Del Boy is protected under copyright law as a "literary work", an English judge has ruled. The High Court in London was asked to rule in a dispute between the makers of the TV show and an "interactive theatrical dining experience" called Only Fools the (Cushty) Dining