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The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has published its latest five-year corporate plan outlining how it will prioritise its work towards "a vision of world-class infrastructure for the people of Scotland". Recognising that high-quality infrastructure underpins inclusive economic growth, sustai

Glasgow-based chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset says that setting out credit terms and communication with clients and customers is key to addressing the late payment crisis assailing the UK's small and medium businesses. According to the Federation of Small Businesses, 58 per cent of its

Mintlaw housebuilder Claymore Homes is building 50 new residential properties in Cairnbulg near Fraserburgh with support from a six-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland. Construction of the development, which consists of three to five-bedroom houses, began in October last year

Five of Scotland’s most dynamic businesses have been named in Alantra’s Food & Beverage Fast 50, an annual ranking of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned food and beverage companies.

Scotland’s population has continued to increase and now stands at a record high of 5.44 million, the largest population ever in Scotland for the ninth year running. Figures published today by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) show that Scotland’s population grew by 13,300

A new trade park in Livingston which the Scottish Government says will help businesses grow and create jobs is to benefit from £2.18 million of public investment. The loan, financed from the £150 million Building Scotland Fund (the pre-cursor to the Scottish National Investment Bank), is

French Duncan has paid tribute to payroll worker Jenny Bairner who this Sunday is running the London Marathon to raise funds for Pancreatic Cancer UK after her mum, Fiona, sadly died from the disease last year. Jenny has already raised over £7,500 so far for the cause and competed in the

The bodies of wealthy Britons contain higher levels of pesticides due to their golfing habit, new academic research has revealed.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that Ross McEwan has resigned from his role as chief executive officer (CEO) and executive director at the still 62 per cent state-owned lender. The bank said Mr McEwan, who has been in the position for five years, has a 12 month notice period and will remain in

Aberdeen-based accountants Anderson Anderson Brown (AAB) have this week announced that three of its team have been made directors at the firm. AAB said the career progressions for Stuart Petrie, Jill Walker and Lynn Wilson were “richly deserved”.

Willis Towers Watson (WTW), the multi-manager firm appointed two years ago by Dundee-based Alliance Trust’s to control its investments has said the move has meant that from April 2017 to the end of March this year the equity portfolio return before fees was 15.1 per cent against the MSCI All C

Edinburgh-based wealth manger Brooks Macdonald has reported an 8 per cent increase in funds under management for the first quarter of the year. Latest figures show that as at 31 March 2019, the firm’s discretionary manager’s funds now stand at £12.8bn - an increase of 7.9

Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford is poised to transfer its investment trust savings scheme to fellow wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown. Baillie Gifford said the long-term interests of the plan holders will be “best serviced” by the transfer of investments to the direct-to-consumer p

Britain’s banks are to get help from the country’s top spies to fight credit-card fraud, the director of GCHQ has announced. Industry body UK Finance’s most recent data shows that fraud losses of UK-issued cards totalled £566 million in 2017.

By Nigel Roberts VAT Director and Head of VAT & Duty at Johnston Carmichael