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Capital Credit Union has announced a formal partnership with one of Scotland’s leading social care charities to provide access to ethical financial services to its staff. The Edinburgh-based credit union has launched an official link with Carr Gomm, an organisation with over 1,000 staff.

A Christian family who refused to pay income tax for nearly a decade because, they claimed, to do so would be "against God's will", have been ordered to pay more than A$2m (£1.1m $1.4m) to the Aussie taxman.

Business advisory firm Grant Thornton has promoted Debbie Mayor, who leads its transaction advisory service team in Scotland, to director. Based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, Ms Mayor joined the firm in 2002 as an audit trainee after completing an MA(Hons) in Accountancy and Finance at Herio

HM Revenue & Customs has failed in its attempt to introduce VAT payments for the supply of bank notes in a move that would have seen Scottish banks charged for issuing their own.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has expanded its Pan European Residential Property Fund (ASPER) SICAV-RAIF with the purchase of a newly constructed residential portfolio in Sweden. This latest acquisition diversifies the Fund’s portfolio to 27 assets in six countries and raising contracted

Edinburgh-based private investment company Cairngorm Capital has bought builders’ merchants Fairalls. This is Cairngorm Capital’s third acquisition in the building merchants sector, following its purchase of Stamco last month and Parker Building Supplies in March 2018.

The number of decrees against Scottish businesses dropped by 28 per cent in the first six months of 2019 (compared to HY1 2018 figures) - totalling 1,140, the lowest of any first half-year on record. According to figures released this week by Registry Trust, the total value of decrees against busine

Eighteen companies have been suspended from the Prompt Payment Code for failing to pay suppliers on time, the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) has announced.

Economic confidence in the United Kingdom dipped back in Q2 2019 amid Brexit uncertainty, according to the latest Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). The poll of more than 100 acco

Sue Kershaw has today been named as president of the Association for Project Management (APM). Currently UK managing director of major projects advisory at KPMG, Kershaw becomes the first female president of the chartered body for the project profession.

Tenancy deposit protection scheme SafeDeposits Scotland brought together professionals from across the private rented sector to raise more than £900 for Edinburgh-based youth homelessness charity, the Rock Trust. Held on July 5 at Glasgow’s Committee Room No 9, a quiz was

A new competition is giving aspiring business owners the chance to win six months’ free office space, worth £10,000, at a prime address in Glasgow’s prestigious George Square. 

Martin Gilbert, co-founder of Aberdeen Asset Management and former Standard Life Aberdeen chief executive, has been linked to a new role at banking challenger Revolut. According to reports in The Financial Times, Mr Gilbert, who shared chief executive duties with Keith Skeoch at SLA after AAM’

The average price of a property in Scotland in May 2019 increased by 2.8 per cent on the previous year to reach £152,801, the UK House Price Index (HPI) has shown. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland rose by 1.2 per cent between April 2019 and May 2019.

Edinburgh-based wealth manager Brooks Macdonald has announced it has signed an agreement to lease a new London office at 21 Lombard Street. The lease is for six years with relocation to the new premises in the second half of the Group’s financial year ending June 2020.