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Edinburgh-based private security firm GTS Solutions has appointed finance specialist Stephen Paterson to its board. Mr Paterson takes up the position as a non-executive director and brings a wealth of experience to the role.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has launched a £50,000 open, ongoing rapid-response funding call to support Scotland’s growing aquaculture sector through the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Business groups, trades unions and leaders from local government and the third sector have committed to putting fair work at the heart of Scotland’s economic recovery.

Job vacancies in Scotland dropped drastically by 64.7% during the three months of the coronavirus lockdown, according to the latest quarterly job market report from CV-Library.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) is misleading graduates by providing a “demoralising, damaging and dangerous” image of their debts, according to the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis.

The VAT team at Saffery Champness has produced responses to a series of FAQs that will help many businesses get it right when it comes to adjusting to the VAT changes announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak in his recent summer statement. In that statement, the chancellor announced a temporary reduction

More than a quarter (27%) of UK children have said they enjoy learning about money at school, according to a new survey from Beano Studios.

A couple has returned from holiday to find their £65,000 Mercedes AMG GT stripped for parts.

According to the latest data from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA UK) and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN), 13% of Scottish SMEs have decided to liquidate their assets in the last two weeks, highlighting to complications of reopening after the coronavirus lockdown. The SM

Finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has launched a programme of support for Scotland’s social enterprise community with Baillie Gifford. The scheme aims to help organisations recover from the impact of COVID-19 and develop strategies for future growth. The Ambitions for Recovery

Family-run fishing business Skelwick LLP, which has been providing fishing services to the north east of Scotland for 25 years, is the proud owner of a brand new state-of-the-art fishing vessel in Orkney thanks to a significant funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland. Whilst based in K

The Scottish Government has announced that people looking for work or those at risk of redundancy will benefit from £100 million of additional assistance to move into work or retrain.

The Scottish Property market has seen a huge demand since the coronavirus lockdown restrictions have been eased, according to property firm ESPC.

Scotland’s GDP increased by 1.5% in May, after the sharp falls of 18.9% in April and 5.5% in March, according to statistics announced today by the chief statistician. Although output has picked up slightly in May, it remains 22.1% below the level in February, prior to the direct impacts of the

Four projects in Fife have received a share of an £83,150 funding package from the Scottish Government's Towns and BIDs Resilience and Recovery Fund to help business recovery after the coronavirus pandemic.  Last month, the funding was announced by Aileen Campbell, cabinet secretary