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Commercial real estate advisory and services firm Newmark has expanded its Scottish business rates team with the appointment of John Russell as a partner in Glasgow. Ms Russell joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate, where he headed the Scottish Business Rates team.
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Commercial real estate advisory and services firm Newmark has expanded its Scottish business rates team with the appointment of John Russell as a partner in Glasgow. Ms Russell joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate, where he headed the Scottish Business Rates team.
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UK fintech platform LendInvest Mortgages has hired Abbie McCluskey as business development manager for Scotland. Ms McCluskey will focus on building and strengthening relationships with mortgage brokers to drive the firm’s lending growth across Scotland.
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Harper Macleod has grown its banking and finance team and appointed a new partner. New partner Liana Di Ciacca joins with more than 15 years’ experience on a wide range of complex and high-value debt finance transactions. She advises both funders and borrowers on high profile Scots law matters
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Chartered Financial Planner Jack Swan has joined the rockwealth Aberdeen team. Mr Swan moves to the firm’s Neo House office after seven years at AAB Wealth, becoming the fourth member of the local team.
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William Grant & Sons is undergoing a significant leadership transition, following the sudden departure of its chief executive, Søren Hagh, and the appointment of a new executive board member. Mr Hagh has left the company less than two years after taking on the role on 1 January 2024. His
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Johnston Carmichael has appointed Glen Small as head of construction and property, strengthening its commitment to supporting one of the UK’s most vital and dynamic sectors. Glen Small joined the independent accountancy and business advisory firm in April 2022, bringing extensive experience fr
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Seven members of staff across all levels of the business have been promoted to director at Glasgow-based Consilium Chartered Accountants.
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Big Four accountancy firm PwC has said it expects to achieve full end-to-end integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across its audit work within the next year. Speaking at a briefing at its New York office, Shawn Panson, PwC’s US assurance transformation leader, said the firm is on track
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has accredited The Open University’s (OU) BSc Accounting and Finance degree, marking the first time a distance learning programme has ever been formally recognised by the professional body. This milestone partnership with the UK’s
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MHA in Edinburgh is celebrating after four team members qualified as Chartered Accountants. The colleagues, who are based at the accounting and business advisory firm’s St Colme Street office, have achieved ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and ICAS (Institute of Chartered
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BDO has told its member firms to refuse outside equity investments, pushing back against a wave of interest from buyout giants in the accountancy sector. The world’s fifth-largest accountancy network announced the move as part of a “strategic reset” intended to “ensure a stro
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Founded by a powered wheelchair user, Glasgow-based Freedom One Life is targeting new customers in the USA following a funding boost to support the overseas expansion of its manufacturing. The business was born as a result of Alex Papanikolaou’s own experiences of using a powerchair, after bei
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Hamilton-based business consultancy Inspirent has announced a strategic partnership with Glasgow IT provider Aspen Solutions to deliver expert IT support for companies. The link up with the Glasgow firm comes as part of Inspirent’s expansion into the private sector with a recently-launched sui
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A young entrepreneur from Coatbridge and his dad have attracted 3,000 customers in their first two months of trading after they opened a new mobile food business in September. The pair accessed expert start-up advice and support from Business Gateway to help get their business off the ground. Specks
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Scotland experienced the fastest quarter-on-quarter increase in the number of businesses in distress across the UK in Q3 2025, according to the latest Red Flag Alert from Begbies Traynor. In Scotland, levels of advanced or "critical" distress in the latest quarter were particularly stark, rocketing
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More than a quarter of Scottish small businesses are expecting to shrink as ongoing cost pressures take their toll on revenues, new Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) figures reveal. FSB’s latest Small Business Index (SBI) in Scotland for Q3 found 29.1% of small firms expect to contract in t
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