Edinburgh-based recruitment firm Redmill Consulting has acquired Keillar Resourcing, an award-winning financial services recruitment specialist. The acquisition further solidifies Redmill’s status within the financial services recruitment market and will continue the hard work which has been c
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The world's largest video game cheating ring, worth around €65 million, has been broken up by an unprecedented police operation.
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The first three months of 2021 saw the volume of property sales in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders rise by 55.7% compared to the previous year, according to ESPC's House Price Report for March 2021.
Scottish biotech company BioCaptiva has raised over £1 million in seed funding from Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate Archangels and Scottish Enterprise, to help develop a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device. The device coul
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has welcomed the first steps to the re-opening of retail after the lockdown restrictions were announced in December.
Fife College has welcomed Kirkcaldy-based company Astrak as it became the first small or medium enterprise (SME) in Fife to benefit from the Flexible Workforce Development Fund.
The post-lockdown house-move boom has seen Scottish law firm and estate agent Lindsays defy disruption to record a rise in the number of homes sold in the past 12 months. Sales by its residential property division rose by 4.26% in the last financial year, with homes valued at a total of £177.3
The 2nd of April marked the first anniversary of restructuring and insolvency specialists Dunedin Advisory’s transition to becoming an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). Christine Convy, director, said: "It’s been a very quick and unprecedented first EOT year for the DA team. Completing our
Jack Anderson, a consultant specialising in wealth management at Core-Asset Consulting, details how wealth management may bring new jobs to Scotland. Wealth management could enjoy a jobs boom in Scotland, with national firms likely to set up regional hubs here as part of a post-pandemic recovery str
Mark Bell, partner at Anderson Anderson & Brown Consulting (AAB), discusses how business development programmes in Scotland are adapting to help young entrepreneurs cope in a post-COVID world. According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of business creations in the UK in Q3 of 20
Perth-based insurer Aviva has abandoned its 2022 hiring target for older workers. The firm has employed 600 over-50s since it highlighted plans in late 2017 to obtain more older workers as life expectancy in the UK rises.
More than £500,000 of fraudulent claims for COVID-19 business relief schemes have been identified by the Highland Council. Checks implemented by the council have so far revealed 144 suspicious claims, of which 133 were found to be fraudulent and stopped at source.
Noting that the Scottish Government’s road map to recovery means it can re-open its office on Monday 26 April, chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset has unveiled its own road map to the adoption of new hybrid working practices. Donald McKinnon, managing partner, said: “The last year h
Financial institutions are spending, on average, 14% of annual operating costs on change management functions in order to drive greater productivity gains, a new PwC study has shown.