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Eileen Blackburn and Brian Milne, of accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP, have been appointed joint administrators of Edinburgh-based Big Data for Humans. Big Data for Humans, which has four employees, provided data science services for customer marketing specialising in retaile

Three executives at Metro bank have had their bonuses frozen as an investigation over accounting errors at the lender rumbles on. Shares worth about £480,000 had been due to chief executive Craig Donaldson, and about £250,000 each for finance director David Arden and his predecessor

Scottish independent wrap platform provider, Nucleus, has today published latest figures showing that it has grown its assets under administration during the first three months of the year to £14.8bn, up 9.1 per cent over Q1 2018 and 6.3 per cent on the previous quarter. By comparison, th

New figures have been published showing that a quarter of all Scots are today struggling to make it to their next payday on their current income. Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) conducted a YouGov survey last month that questioned over 2,000 Scots aged 18+.

Global tax and law firm CMS has announced the promotion of four Scottish-based lawyers to the role of partner. Paula Kidd and Carol Nisbet, from the firm’s Aberdeen offices, along with Mark McMurray and Jenny Walker, who are based in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, will all become partners

The Scottish Government is to create a £150 million national pilot scheme to provide support for first-time buyers and has also launched a consultation of short-term lets. Under the scheme, which will be launched later this year, buyers will be required to fund a minimum of 5% of the

The UK government and Scottish Chamber of Commerce will today call on Scottish businesses to make their voices heard in post-Brexit free trade agreements.   The Department for International Trade has announced that the Scottish Chamber of C

Two North Uist-based brothers have purchased a new fishing vessel, with a six-figure funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland.

With HMRC currently consulting on changes to the reduced 5 per cent VAT rate that has been available for the installation of energy saving materials (ESMs) in residential accommodation, in order to bring the UK into line with EU law, experts at accountancy firm Saffery Champness are stressing t

An unemployed Italian fisherman has hooked the big one while still on dry land after he picked up someone's discarded lottery scratch-card worth €100,000. The man from the southern Italian town of Mola di Bari was a gambler who frequently checked discarded scratch-cards to see whether their ori

Royal Bank of Scotland has today reported profits of £707m profit for the first three months of the year, which was down from £808m for the same period last year, a downturn the Edinburgh-based lender said can be attributed to the impact of Brexit uncertainty on near-term growth. Th

Bosses at venerable wealth manager and investment Alliance Trust have told those assembled for the firm's annual general meeting in Dundee yesterday that the 131 year-old business has now committed to having one third of its board made up of female directors. Chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin

Edinburgh's Capital Credit Union has reported a near 50 per cent increase in new members for the first half of this financial year, compared to 2017/18. Capital has also reported a sharp increase in lending in both personal loans and mortgages for the first two quarters of the year.

The first biometric fingerprint card issued by a UK bank has entered circulation as part of a national trial by Royal Bank of Scotland which is piloting cutting edge, biometric fingerprint technology with 200 customers.

English Premier League clubs’ revenues increased to a record £4.8 billion in 2017/18, according to analysis from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group.