News

M&G Investments has agreed a £40 million funding deal with Queens Cross Housing Association for plans to transform the Hamiltonhill area of Glasgow into a new urban ‘suburb’. Queens Cross is to build 300 affordable homes for rent on the site just north of the city centre.

Consumer watchdog Which? has called on the UK Government to appoint a regulator to protect access to cash, as a combination of bank branch and cashpoint closures causes a crisis leaving people struggling to pay for essential goods and services. Despite the increased popularity of digital and ca

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK has announced the signing of golfer Colin Montgomerie as its latest brand ambassador. The sponsorship deal is part of RSM's ambitious partnership strategy within golf, to continue to build brand awareness across RSM's international network spanning 116 countries

Official figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have revealed a strong year for Scotch Whisky exports in 2018, with global growth by both value and volume.

A Glasgow-based recruitment technology business has welcomed 10 new employees to its Oswald Street office and is preparing to open offices in New York and Singapore, thanks to increased customer demand and support from Royal Bank of Scotland. Candidate.ID, an award-winning cloud-based recruitment pr

A distillery on the UK’s most northerly inhabited island and a rapidly growing Edinburgh headquartered firm supplying archaeology services are amongst the shortlisted businesses for the Federation Small Business’s Celebrating Small Business Awards. Shetland Distillery Company have been n

Businesses in the Inverness area are being given the opportunity to learn how to create the most effective digital strategy from a leading expert in the field. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has launched a series of digital strategy workshops, as part of its Entrepreneurial Academy.

Women in Hungarian with four children or more are to be exempted for life from paying income tax, the country's prime minister has announced.

Progeny Group has announced the acquisition of Edinburgh’s Innovate Financial Services, marking the English wealth manager and financial planning firm’s first expansion into Scotland. Over the last decade Innovate has built its reputation as the financial planning and wealth management f

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to this week post its second consecutive annual profits notice and hand out a £335m bonus pot to staff, a decade since its £45 billion government bailout.

The Scottish Government has today published the analysis of responses to the public consultation on the Scottish National Investment Bank Bill which ran from September to October last year. Today's document is the first of many milestones for the nation's first investment bank in 2019 as

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published today, show that the UK’s economy grew by just 0.2 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2018, down from 0.6 per cent over the three months to September.

Output across Scotland's private economy declined for a second successive month at the start of 2019, the first time since August 2016 that a back-to-back drop in activity has been recorded. According to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI, new business also fell in January, enabling firms to clea

Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Yvonne Brady, specialist insolvency advisor in the firm's corporate & restructuring recovery team, has been elected to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Scotland Council. Ms Brady begins a three-year term, during which she will draw on her expe

The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 12.0 per cent last month, an increase from 11.1 per cent in October 2018, and above the average vacancy rate for the UK, which is 9.9 per cent.