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Rachel Henry considers the importance of words and their meaning in insurance contracts. Words matter. The meaning of words and the way they are interpreted matter. The wording used in insurance contracts can be crucial to the outcome of legal cases, as we saw on 8 February 2021 when the United King

The UK Government has provided the Scottish Government with an additional £1.1 billion to support people, businesses and public services affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The UK's banking industry is set to abandon plans to establish an agency to collect overdue emergency COVID-19 loans.

Aberdeen Standard Investments' (ASI) Research Institute has launched a new research paper discussing ways to increase female labour-force participation in the workplace. The research paper, ‘A Women’s Place; Boosting female labour-force participation to lift long-term economic growth&rsq

More than half of the UK’s largest cities are continuing to experience a property selling boom, according to UK-wide letting firm Apropos. The firm has analysed year-on-year data and found that the number of properties advertised for sale has risen by between 1% and 67% year on year in 11 of t

Perth-based Realise Energy Services has acquired Optinergy Ltd (NI), the Northern Ireland medium wind turbine operation and maintenance arm of Optinergy Ltd (ROI), an established technical services provider in the marketplace, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will further enhance Realise Energy Serv

ZEDRA, the global specialist in active wealth, global expansion and fund services, has acquired Inside Pensions, a UK-based independent occupational pension scheme governance support provider. The transaction is in line with the firm’s aim to diversify its service offering and expand its prese

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched its TCA fees instrument consultation. This consultation seeks views on the proposed Third Country Auditors (Fees) Instrument 2021, which includes an increase in the periodical fees for registered Third Country Auditors in the UK.The consultation is

Fake reviews for products sold on Amazon's Marketplace are being sold online in bulk. The consumer body Which? found ten websites selling fake reviews for products sold on Amazon from £5 each.

Accountancy firm Azets has promoted four Scottish partners, Chris Horne, Peter Gallanagh, Greig McKnight and Bernadette Higgins into senior management roles across the international and UK business. Chris Horne has been appointed deputy chief executive officer and will support chief executive office

MHA Henderson Loggie has appointed Dawn MacDougall as tax director. She joins from EY where latterly she was head of tax in their Inverness office and focused on supporting owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the UK, with complex tax issues.

Neil Woodford has broken his silence on the collapse of Woodford Investment Management and revealed he plans to start all over again in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. Speaking publicly for the first time since his business collapsed in October 2019, exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph, Mr W

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory has entered into a strategic partnership with US-based Kineticos Life Sciences to co-invest in early stage Scottish life sciences companies. The venture partnership aims to invest over £10 million over the next five years in oncology-focused life s

Global exports of Scotch whisky fell by more than £1.1 billion during 2020, according to figures released today by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA).

Businesses across Scotland are to benefit from a £1 million funding boost from The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for data and AI. The Data lab has announced two new funding schemes – Data Skills for Work, and an SME data internship grant – to support further bus