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Four Scottish accountancy veterans have been recruited by Belfast finance firm HNH to open a new corporate finance office in Edinburgh to target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) including family-owned companies. HNH specialises in advising customers in deals within the £1 million to &

Edinburgh-based LendingCrowd and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) have today signed a strategic partnership that will see LendingCrowd become ICAS’s preferred partner in its business loans category. LendingCrowd is the only fintech lending platform headquartered in Sco

A new report by PwC has indicated that increased investment means that the number of hotel rooms in Scotland's main cities is in a strong position for future growth. The report released today also revealed that a surge in the number of hotel rooms in Scotland’s main cities has led to a fall in

The United States will impose a 25% import tariff on Scotch whisky from October 18th this year, it announced today.

Ferguson Marine is to be nationalised after administrators rejected three commercial bids to buy the Inverclyde-based shipyard. After operating the firm under a management agreement, the Scottish Government is now to formally purchase the yard.

New figures released today from the British Business Bank's Start Up Loans programme have revealed that the scheme has lent over £30 million to small businesses in Scotland since 2012. In total, the government-backed scheme has issued more than 4,000 loans, with an average loan size of £

Celebrity speakers Martina Navratilova and Eddie Izzard voiced there support for a more diverse Scottish business community at the fifth annual Aberdeen Standard Investments Diversity Summit. The summit was held at Gleneagles during The Solheim Cup week.

Knight Frank has appointed Euan Kelly as a partner in its Edinburgh office in an effort to bolster its investment team and strengthen its capital markets offering. Mr Kelly will relocate from the commercial property consultancy’s London headquarters, where he was part of its portfolio capital

Professor Shannon Vallor will join the University of Edinburgh as the first Baillie Gifford chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).

Argyll and Bute Council has welcomed the announcement of a £50 million Rural Growth Deal as a "transformational vote of confidence" in the area. The announcement was made yesterday as Treasury officials confirmed the UK government's £25m contribution to the deal would be finalised &ldquo

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Britain are set to miss out on £3 billion in lost interest over the next year, according to new research.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed public opinion on the regulation of corporate reporting, audit and governance. Its research has indicated that the public supports the FRC taking firmer action to hold companies to account.

A man who says he was encouraged to try homosexuality by an iPhone app has launched a lawsuit against Apple for "moral suffering" because he ended up with a boyfriend.

Standard Life Aberdeen Plc has announced that its vice-chief Martin Gilbert will step down from the company's board of directors. Mr Gilbert advised the company that he would not seek re-election at the firm's AGM which is scheduled for 12th May 2020.

Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has released its quarterly Deals Done in Scotland review which details Scotland's Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and funding activity for this quarter.