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A finance graduate from University of Strathclyde has been appointed as as a finance secretary in Guyana's Ministry of Finance. Michael B. Joseph, who holds a Master's degree in finance from the Scottish university, was appointed late last year, Stabroek News reports.

Scottish snow sports have boosted the economy by almost £31 million, according to latest estimates, as negative projections made in 2011 on likely Scottish skiing and snowboard trends have failed to materialise.

Prison guards allowed a prisoner who helped them with their taxes to eat Chinese take-away and sit in a guard station after hours.

Insurance, risk management and employee benefits specialist, Jelf, has launched a new Glasgow branch in one of the city’s most prestigious and recognisable city centre buildings. The Glasgow office, located in the G1 building on the city’s George Square, is Jelf’s biggest trad

Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG, who were appointed at the start of December as joint administrators of Invergordon-based low-energy housebuilder CLDB Limited, trading as Carbon Dynamic, have announced the sale of the business and assets to Carbon Dynamic (Scotland) Limited, a ne

Edinburgh private bank Hampden & Co is adding digital banking services to its offering, with its mobile banking app set for launch this month. The news comes a week after it was revealed that Hampden became one of the group of UK banks, to be selected for the £275 million RBS Incentivised

Royal Bank of Scotland has applied for a German banking licence in a bid to safeguard its European business interests in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Stuart Robb of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery Limited has been appointed provisional liquidator of Walker MacLeod. The company, which operates from premises in Yoker, Glasgow, was incorporated in June 1981 and operates as a multi-disciplined engineering firm supplying metal fabricatio

230 Scots a week will be made bankrupt in 2019, according to accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP. The firm is predicting that around 12,000 Scots will have been sequestrated (the Scottish term for bankruptcy) or taken out a Protected Trust Deed (PTD) by the end of 2018

Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, believed to be the oldest in the world, led a record breaking ￡22.4 million of investment in Scottish tech and life sciences businesses in 2018. The highly active syndicate invested ￡10.9 million of its own members’ cash

Scotland ranks in fifth place out of all UK local authority areas with 56 per cent admitting that when it comes to taking risk with their savings and investments they have a low or zero attitude. The finding was revealed via new research by Edinburgh-based savings and investments company, Aegon UK,

Scots are being forced back into the arms of loan sharks in increasing numbers due to the failings of Universal Credit, according to research funding by the UK Government.

With Brexit producing a year of twists and turns, the only certainty about 2019 is that the outlook for businesses across Scotland remains uncertain, according to independent Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers Johnston Carmichael “The big imponderable is Brexit and what sort of i

The turn of the year should bring hope for prospective first-time buyers who have been at the sharp-end of rising prices and prohibitive premiums, a Scottish estate agent it predicting.

In the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland’s seasonal message, the small business campaign group’s Scotland policy chair, Andrew McRae, urges MPs to be ready for business in 2019