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Nick Halfhide, director of sustainable growth at Scottish Natural Heritage, has been appointed interim chief executive of South of Scotland Enterprise, the new agency regenerating the economy of the South of Scotland. Mr Halfhide will take on the role from 3 February until a permanent appointme

Isolated refugee children, patients with incurable blood cancer, and families facing hardship are amongst those benefitting from donations to five Edinburgh charities, totalling £18,300, by Aberdeen Standard Investments Charitable Foundation. One charity which has gained from the support is Ju

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) today outlined their proposals for data reforms across the UK financial sector. Both authorities have outlined their plans to develop their data and analytics capabilities. The FCA and BoE both depend on access to high-quality data

Kinloss-based Wooha Brewing Company has launched an ambitious £600,000 crowdfunding campaign to help achieve its international expansion goals.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has cautiously welcomed new rules around bank overdrafts but is warning that the changes could hit some people in the pocket in 2020.

ExxonMobil has announced that it will allow drivers to pay for their gas through Alexa.

Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) successfully completed a record 70 transactions in 2019, with a combined total deal value exceeding £500 million. AAB's deal activity during 2019 covers a range of sectors including energy - upstream E&P and oilfield services - food & drink, cons

Hampden & Co has received £30 million of Smith & Williamson loan book following the decision made in 2019 for the financial and professional services group to relinquish its banking licence. The private bank also expects to build its relationship with Smith & Williamson and its cli

A management reshuffle has occurred at accountancy firm RSM following the discovery of an error in its accounts.  RSM scored a major win last year when it was appointed as auditor to Sports Direct. However, the company's accounts for the year to 31st March revealed that the firm had made e

Archangels has recorded another active year of support, leading investment of £14.8 million in Scottish start-up and early-stage companies in the tech and life sciences sectors. The syndicate directly invested £8.2m across the year (2018: £10.9m) and was the lead investor on a tota

Around one in three (33.8%) Scottish-registered companies had a higher than usual risk of insolvency in December, according to new research from R3 in Scotland. The equivalent figure for the UK overall is higher, at over two in five (41.1%), while the South East of England is the region with the hig

Law firm Ledingham Chalmers has increased its turnover and profit for the last financial year. Turnover for year ending March 2019 was just over £11.6 million, compared with around £10.6m the year before; and profits were up from £3.2m to £3.47m.

Experts from Johnston Carmichael have highlighted a focus on the environment and renewable energy within the Scottish business community as the firm mapped out what 2020 could hold for the country’s business sector. Amongst many predictions including a boost to Scotch beef due to Chinese marke

Andrew Donaldson, the current finance director of Fife-based family timber merchanting business James Donaldson and Son, will take on the role of group managing director later this year. In July last year, the firm announced that group managing director Scott Cairns would step down later in 2019.

Calum Cowe has been appointed as the new director of JLL's growing Scottish investment team. Mr Cowe will join the property consultants as director within its capital markets team after spending over eight years at Cushman & Wakefield. He joined as a graduate and rose through the ranks to become