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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

Businesses operating in marine sectors in the Highlands and Islands have until 6 July to apply for funding to help make offshore production and transport green, clean and sustainable. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is a partner in the multi-national GreenOffshoreTech project. The project aim

Chartered accountant Wylie & Bisset has welcomed the launch of a new online training initiative designed to support the growing number of female business founders in Scotland. With recent research for the Rose Review on Female Entrepreneurship revealing that 5,951 companies were established by w

abrdn and the University of Edinburgh have formed an industry-academic partnership to deliver innovation in the investment sector.

Macdonald Henderson, led by corporate director Laura McKnight, has advised the shareholders of Glasgow-based Ping Network Solutions on the disposal of the company to Luxembourg–based Sword Group, the Euronext listed IT and digital transformation group. Sword UK employs 430 staff and more than

abrdn owner Phoenix Group has outlined plans to invest in the firm after it posted its full-year 2021 results. Phoenix Group said it has already reaped significant rewards for the decisions it made to buy the business from the former Standard Life Aberdeen.

Chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset has welcomed the Scottish Parliament’s inquiry into the challenges faced by people with low income and debt problems but, has questioned whether it is a missed opportunity. With inflation rising to 5.2% last year and energy regulator Ofgem announcing th

FinTech Scotland has published a ground-breaking Research and Innovation (R&I) Roadmap with the objective of boosting economic recovery, driving growth and creating jobs over the next ten years. Over the ten-year period, the ambition will be to deliver in Scotland an additional 20,000 plus finte

The 2022-23 Scottish Budget should be supported by MSPs to help accelerate economic recovery, tackle the climate emergency and reduce entrenched inequalities, according to finance secretary Kate Forbes.

Edinburgh-based Label Ventures is launching a new payments innovation accelerator to help innovators around the world pioneer the future of payments and make good on their resolutions to bring innovation to market in 2022. The result of a partnership between Label Ventures and Hunch, the foresight a

abrdn has joined the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA), the newest major asset manager to become a part of the not-for-profit organisation that brings ESG policy experts, investors, and emerging market issuers (governments and corporations) together to solve the most pressing global is

Independent accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has expanded its operation in London following a series of significant business wins. The firm has secured a larger office in the heart of the City to support its continued growth – just over two years after opening its fir

Twenty innovative start-ups have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme aimed at developing and commercialising academic entrepreneurship.

Moray-based whisky specialist Gordon and MacPhail has appointed Ben Cookman as its new finance director.

Chiene + Tait (C+T) has appointed social housing specialist accountant Stuart Beattie as its new head of RSL (Registered Social Landlords). Mr Beattie joined Chiene + Tait in 2005 as a trainee and from that time has developed his expertise within the social housing sector, working with a broad range