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Barclays has funded Glasgow-based premium hi-fi manufacturer Linn with £1 million. The funding will be used to bolster product innovation and expansion into new markets. It will support the development of Linn's growing range of high-end audio products, with a new wireless music system set to

The City of Edinburgh Council is on track to save tens of thousands of pounds a year and significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions thanks to energy efficiency upgrades funded in part by Salix Finance.

DSL Business Finance (DSL) has appointed two more loan officers to support business growth and development in Scotland. Mark Lagan and Paul Toner are due to join the DSL team, providing a combined total of 29 years of financial services experience.

Credit Suisse has invested several hundred million francs into its digital service as part of efforts to reduce its reliance on branches in its home market.

Personal insolvency across Scotland is on the rise according to the latest figures from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB).

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest are suffering their second IT outage in one week, with online services failing early Tuesday morning.

Glenrothes is the first town in the UK to be awarded recognition for a plan to become a Living Wage Town.

Craig Wright, who claims to have invented Bitcoin, has been ordered to pay $5 billion to his alleged former business partner.

The James Hutton Institute has announced the appointment of Hugh Darby as its new director of finance and company secretary. Mr Darby replaces Derek Leslie, who is stepping down after almost three years in the role at the Institution, a major researcher of food, energy and environmental security.

Brian Williams has joined Edinburgh-based Vert Rotors as an investor director, looking after the interests of investor Equity Gap. Equity Gap, the syndicate of Scottish business investors headed by chairman Jock Millican, holds a 16% share in Vert following its original investment in the firm in 201

Commercial property sales values in Glasgow surpassed those of Scotland’s capital for the first time since 2015, new research has found. Analysis of Q2 2019 data by the Scottish Property Federation (SPF) showed that the total value of commercial property sales in Scotland continued t

The number of people moving house in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in five years.

The Scottish whisky industry has called for intellectual property protections as Britain prepares to leave the European Union. Lindesay Low, deputy legal director of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), told an event hosted by Lawrie IP that the Scottish whisky industry needed clearer direction to p

The South of Scotland Economic Partnership (SOSEP) has provided over £1 million of funding to various projects aimed at developing rural skills, community enterprises and female-led businesses. SOSEP has awarded a total amount of £1,045,184 to five projects, including an initiative to im

A new campaign has been launched today designed to highlight the disconnect between Scotland's law firms and the SME community – the majority of which lack clarity over fees and advice, according to research by Morton Fraser LLP. The firm's fly-on-the-wall stunt in Glasgow uses humour to