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Simon Cowie Infinity Infinity Partnership, the Aberdeen-based accountancy and business advisory firm, has been nominated for 12 national awards.

Elizabeth Denham The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Equifax Ltd with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017.

Left to right: AAB’s Mairi MacIver, Kevin Mooney and Hilary Dyson Independent firms of chartered accountants and business advisors Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has expanded its cloud accounting and outsourcing team in the central belt.

The hotel sector in Glasgow is growing faster than in any other city in the UK, with the average cost for an overnight stay in Scotland’s largest city climbing 7.5 per cent in the first half of 2018 with occupancy rates increasing to 79.1 per cent.

The latest publication of Registers of Scotland’s monthly UK House Price Index shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in July 2018 was £152,245 – an increase of 3.2 per cent on July in the previous year and an increase of 1.4 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Scottish small business confidence has fallen sharply and businesses north of the border are amongst the most concerned in the UK about a no deal Brexit, new figures from the Federation of Small Businesses show.

Graeme Melrose Glasgow-based McCrea Financial Services has announced the appointment of Graeme Melrose to its senior team as he takes up the role of independent financial adviser.

Brian Sloan Scotland's national charity for older people has called on banks to introduce shared banking hubs to alleviate the impact of their mass branch closures which they have branded "unacceptable".

A man who was part of gang who posed as a police officer and as bank staff to defraud people out of thousands of pounds has been jailed.

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The number of interest-free credit card deals that allow borrowers to shift their debt from one to another have reduced significantly, new data has revealed.

Armstrong Watson CEO Paul Dickson (left) welcomes Jim Meakin to the firm Accountants, business and financial advisers Armstrong Watson LLP have announced the appointment of Jim Meakin to the role of tax partner and head of tax across the firm’s 15 offices.

A man who made £120,000 through an illegal code-sharing scheme has been ordered to repay the money.

David Ovens Optoscribe, a supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, today announced that the company has closed an investment round of £2.8 million led by Scottish business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, and also supported by its other existing investors, Par Equity, Scottis

Clearblue Innovation, Bedford Regional REIT, the office and industrial property-focused real estate investment trust, has announced the acquisition of three UK office properties with the support of Royal Bank of Scotland’s real estate finance team in Scotland.