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Archangels has recorded another active year of support, leading investment of £14.8 million in Scottish start-up and early-stage companies in the tech and life sciences sectors. The syndicate directly invested £8.2m across the year (2018: £10.9m) and was the lead investor on a tota

Around one in three (33.8%) Scottish-registered companies had a higher than usual risk of insolvency in December, according to new research from R3 in Scotland. The equivalent figure for the UK overall is higher, at over two in five (41.1%), while the South East of England is the region with the hig

Law firm Ledingham Chalmers has increased its turnover and profit for the last financial year. Turnover for year ending March 2019 was just over £11.6 million, compared with around £10.6m the year before; and profits were up from £3.2m to £3.47m.

Experts from Johnston Carmichael have highlighted a focus on the environment and renewable energy within the Scottish business community as the firm mapped out what 2020 could hold for the country’s business sector. Amongst many predictions including a boost to Scotch beef due to Chinese marke

Andrew Donaldson, the current finance director of Fife-based family timber merchanting business James Donaldson and Son, will take on the role of group managing director later this year. In July last year, the firm announced that group managing director Scott Cairns would step down later in 2019.

Calum Cowe has been appointed as the new director of JLL's growing Scottish investment team. Mr Cowe will join the property consultants as director within its capital markets team after spending over eight years at Cushman & Wakefield. He joined as a graduate and rose through the ranks to become

A ground-breaking youth project operating in one of the most deprived areas of Scotland has hit the road again – after receiving £11,200 from Aberdeen Standard Investments Charitable Foundation for the purchase of a new minibus. Losing access to a vital transport lifeline almost put the

Aberdeen headquartered, employee-owned oil and gas consultancy Accord Energy Solutions is heading towards a decade in business with continued growth and industry recognition. The business was launched in 2010 as the first employee-owned start-up business in Scotland and is gearing towards

The number of first-time buyers in the UK has reached its highest level since 2007 as numbers reached an estimated 353,436 in 2019, according to data gathered by the Yorkshire Building Society.

Self-proclaimed "sushi-king" Mr Kiyoshi Kimura paid £1.37 million for a giant bluefin tuna at the main fish market in Tokyo yesterday.

In the wake of several closures of golf clubs, committee members have been warned to treat their clubs more like a business by insolvency experts MLM Solutions. MLM Solutions recently managed the sequestration and sale of Eastwood Golf Club in East Renfrewshire and of Mount Ellen Golf Club in Gartco

Jersey-based investor Rhodora, which has links with the creator of James Bond, has taken up an option to acquire a £700,000 stake in goldminer Scotgold Resources. Scotgold Resources is the firm which is developing a gold mine near Tyndrum and looking to expand into other sites in Scotland

Amid rising concerns over the levels of problem debt in Scotland, the Scottish Government has revealed plans to create a new debt advice service. This year, Citizens Advice Scotland has issued 100,000 pieces of debt advice to people living in Scotland, whilst more than 600,000 Scots - 14.2% of the p

Callum McInnes of BTO solicitors discusses the pros and cons of bridging finance. Over the past five years or so, mainstream lenders have cut back and in many cases withdrawn lending altogether. This has made way for an alternative form of funding in the form of bridging finance.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has prevented over £11.64 million of fraud in the run-up to Christmas.