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abrdn has announced the conversion of three further equity funds to Article 8 under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This includes its flagship Asia Pacific Equity Fund (to be renamed as Asia Pacific Sustainable Equity Fund), which has $2 billion (£1.67bn) AUM making it on

A Scottish boutique hotel, No. 17 The Promenade, has reopened under its new owner, unveiling a grand renovation.

N4 Investments (N4), the direct investment vehicle of N4 Partners, has announced its seven-figure investment in Opulus Financial (Opulus), the CFO solutions business headquartered in Glasgow. With a team of over 40 people based across the West of Scotland, Opulus provides a range of financial and op

Consilium Chartered Accountants has appointed Craig Coyle as a partner at the Glasgow-based firm. From July, Mr Coyle will lead Consilium’s tax department alongside founding partner, Raymond Clarke.

Annual house price growth in Scotland has now reached 8.4%, signalling the highest growth so far this year, according to the latest Walker Fraser Steele Acadata House Price Index.

Circularity Scotland Ltd, the not-for-profit scheme administrator for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in Scotland, has signed an agreement with Biffa that will see the sustainable waste management company become the scheme’s official logistics service provider.

The way businesses file Value Added Tax (VAT) returns has now changed, as part of Making Tax Digital (MTD), now HMRC is urging businesses in Scotland to join over 1.7 million taxpayers who are already benefitting from MTD to make the change. From 1 April 2022, MTD for VAT became mandatory for all VA

A virtual reality firm has brought in Scottish software specialists to help manage global growth as it produces global video games.

Chinese property developers are accepting garlic, watermelons, wheat and barley as down payments on new apartments.

Not a single company has been prosecuted by HMRC under corporate tax evasion powers introduced five years ago. An offence for companies failing to stop those associated with the business from enabling tax evasion came into force in September 2017 under the Criminal Finances Act.

ASC Finance for Business, a national broker franchise network, has expanded with two new Scottish offices in Edinburgh and Perth. The offices are fully open and will be run by new director Steven Downie, who has taken over the office from Alison Hunter, who has been managing the firm's Scottish oper

Scottish commercial property enjoyed its best first half of the year for investment volumes since 2018 as the market continued its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new analysis from Knight Frank. The independent commercial property consultancy found that £1.2 billion of commer

NatWest has decided to launch additional support for customers, colleagues and communities to assist with the rising cost of living.

As the quarterly confidence index falls to level not seen outside pandemic-induced restrictions, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has urged leadership candidates to show pro-enterprise credentials. Surging operating costs, a high tax burden and struggles to fill vacancies are threatening the

About one in eight of the 1.5 million small businesses in the UK who were encouraged to take out loans under the COVID-19 Bounce Back Loan Scheme have fallen into arrears on their repayments.