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Edinburgh-based telecommunications service provider Commsworld has appointed highly-respected and experienced business leader Andy Leitch as its new chief financial officer. He joins the board from M247, where he was chief financial officer of the company, based in Manchester.

Cumbernauld-based developer McKernan Homes has broken ground on a new sustainable development in Airdrie facilitated by a £2.8 million loan from Bank of Scotland.

PwC staff have been told they can finish early on Fridays over the summer in a renewed attempt to keep employees happy amid the shift back to working from the office after the pandemic. The Big Four firm has written to its 22,000 staff in the UK and informed them that they can finish at lunchtime on

Foreign secretary Liz Truss has banned Russian businesses from using UK accountants as she announced new sanctions on Russia in wake of its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions include a ban on services exports to Russia, cutting them off from doing business with UK sectors that are critical to the Ru

A police department has said it is "embarrassed" after a volunteer officer was caught using police vehicles to sell drugs. Sheriff Grady Judd, head of the police department in Polk County, Florida, said the incident "makes me so crazy I want to pluck my eyeballs out one at a time", FOX 13 reports.

Scottish businesses have positive expectations for activity levels, employment and turnover according to the latest Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor report, but also report that inflationary pressure and supply chain issues pose challenges in the year ahead. The report, which surveyed 500

Jonathan Peake has joined UK private bank Hampden & Co from Standard Bank International as chief financial officer (CFO). Mr Peake spent more than six years as CFO and executive director at Standard Bank International, the banking and wealth management group, which has approximately £6 bil

FRP Advisory has appointed one of the North East’s most experienced insolvency practitioners, Graham Smith, as a new director based in the firm’s Aberdeen office. Graham Smith has over 20 years’ experience dealing with an extensive and high-profile range of restructuring and insolv

BrewDog founder and CEO James Watt is to reward the company’s people with a fifth of his personal stake in the business to celebrate BrewDog's 15th anniversary.

The life sciences sector became the most popular destination for equity investment into tech-focussed smaller businesses in Scotland, as the Covid-19 pandemic increased interest in healthcare technology, according to new analysis from the British Business Bank. Using Beauhurst data that tracks equit

Brodies LLP has announced the appointment of seven new partners and the relocation of its Highlands office to Inverness. Aberdeen and Highlands-based family lawyers Susie Mountain and Sarah Lilley step up to partner level, while Ryan Bowie and Stuart Murray become the firm's newest Glasgow-based par

Members of Unite have embarked on strike action at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today in Edinburgh and London. This industrial action is the first action since the inception of the regulator. It follows many months of refusals by FCA management to listen to the concerns of their workforce.

Canadians will no longer be allowed to commit crimes on the surface of the moon under a legislative change slipped into the country's latest budget bill. The move comes in anticipation of Canada's involvement in the Lunar Gateway project to create the first-ever space station in lunar orbit.

Willie Watt, the chair of the Scottish Government-owned Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has refused to answer questions from MSPs on why Eilidh Mactaggart, the former chief executive of the bank, quit with a £117,500 exit payment. Mr Watt said he was unable “to provide any furth

The Scottish Building Society has launched a new partnership with digital legacy vault and planning tool, Biscuit Tin, which will be offered free to its members for the first three months after they sign up. Launched by entrepreneur Sheila Hogan in 2020, Biscuit Tin provides a simple and stress-free