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Skycanner, the flight comparison website founded in Edinburgh, has appointed Kris Beyens as its new chief financial officer. Before joining Skycanner, Mr Beyens held executive roles at eBay, including vice president and chief operating officer of eBay EMEA and as chief financial officer for eBay Int

An Oregon based bee-farmer has had 92 of his 400 bee hives stolen.

FinTech Alliance has announced a partnership with Fintech Scotland in a mission to bring together the strengths of the UK’s FinTech ecosystem on one all-encompassing platform, and to support the continued growth of the sector. FinTech Alliance is a digital platform uniting both the UK and the

KPMG has appointed Graeme Williams to lead its corporate finance team across central Scotland, as the company prepares for an uplift in Scottish deal activity in 2020. Joining with over 10 years' experience in working in the 'Big Four' across London and Scotland, Mr Williams will lead the team with

A new review has been launched into claims by two businessmen that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) nearly drove them to bankruptcy. The allegations, which have been staunchly denied by RBS focus on the bank's now-inoperative Global Restructuring Group (GRG), which was found to have mistreated thous

HMRC is homing in on inheritance tax avoidance by wealthy families through the creation of a secret unit which will investigate the ways in which investment companies are used to reduce bills.

Wellbeing charity retailTRUST has launched the new phase of its Newton Mearns retirement homes development thanks to a £5 million funding package from Bank of Scotland. The new homes officially opened on 20 February 2020 at the Hugh Fraser Retirement Estate, formerly the Crookfur estate.

Healthcare tech company Craneware has appointed David Kemp, the chief financial officer of Aberdeen oil services company Wood Group, to its board. Mr Kemp has been appointed to the board as an independent non-executive director and will join on March 1st this year.

Brodies LLP has advised on a number of major hotel deals in Scotland in the last three months' worth over £170 million, coinciding with the appointment of industry specialist Bob Asher. Brodies advised Great Century, which is a partner of Hong Kong property firm Lai Sun Group, on the purc

Ardfin Estate on the Hebridean island of Jura is to be home to a new multi-million-pound golfing estate.

Denmark's largest bank, Danske Bank, will introduce negative interest rates for a selection of private customers from June 1st this year. The terms of the negative interest rate will depend upon whether the customer uses Danske Bank for their primary personal bank account – which in the Danish

Sandy Findlay, partnership director at Edinburgh-headquartered innovation advisors ABGI UK, has been appointed to the National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme (NATEP) Scotland Proposal Review Panel (PRP). NATEP Scotland PRP supports Scottish aerospace businesses, to encourage collaborati

New York-headquartered bank JP Morgan Chase is set to emerge into the UK personal banking market. The bank is preparing to launch a range of savings and loan products within the new few months in a move which will disrupt the already fiercely competitive UK consumer banking market.

One in five small businesses could close or radically change their business model due to difficulties in recruiting EU workers, according to new research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland. FSB’s new study, published today, also sets out a four-point plan to make the imm

Commercial property firm HFD has sold the Reynolds Building at Scottish Enterprise Technology Park in East Kilbride to Glyn Watkin Jones 1999 Hybrid Settlement Trust in a £3.75 million deal. The sale comes around 18 months post-completion of the base build of the 20,000 sq. ft., high-specifica