The owner, CEO and Chair of Heart of Midlothian Football Club has been chosen to receive the esteemed Edinburgh Award. In recognition of her business success and community work, and for services to sport in Edinburgh, Ann Budge will be presented with an engraved Loving Cup from the Lord Provost late
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New research has revealed the University of Dundee generates some £975 million in economic value for Scotland.
Maggie Hicks, founder of SynSense, and Xiaoyan Ma, founder of Danu Robotics, plant a Hawthorn tree on University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus to mark the 100+ startups supported by Edinburgh Innovations over the last year Student startups from the University of Edinburgh have s
Lloyds Banking Group has withdrawn its £420m claim against fellow bailed-out bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland. In May 2014, it emerged that Lloyds was suing RBS for £420m as part of a wider “group litigation order” lawsuit over RBS's allegedly "misleading" 2008 right issue.
Glasgow paraplanner Steven McBurnie has been appointed as chair of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Paraplanner Interest Group (PPIG). Mr McBurnie, a paraplanner at Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie, has served on the CISI PPIG committee for five years.
Experts are set to share perspectives and insights on Capital Market Actors and their Potential to Address Modern Slavery – the last of Scotland Against Modern Slavery’s (SAMS) four-part accelerator series which focuses upon slavery in global supply chains. The online event will take pla
Accounting and business advice firm Wylie & Bisset has advised Livingston-based laboratory equipment and support specialists C&M Scientific on its sale to Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), a supplier of equipment, chemicals and consumables for laboratory use in the UK. C&M Scientific
Addleshaw Goddard has announced partner Alan Shanks as its new head of Scotland. Mr Shanks, who currently heads the firm's finance & projects team north of the border with a focus on the transactions in the energy sector, takes over leadership of Addleshaw Goddard's Scottish operations from fell
Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Edinburgh-based Purpose HR. Lisa Thomson, CEO at Purpose HR and Graeme Allan, chief executive at AAB.
Phil Anderson, founder of Phil Anderson Financial Services, discusses the rising popularity of ESG investment We’re all doing our bit nowadays to conserve our environment and look out for our fellow human beings, on both a local and a global stage. Carrying re-usable bags, ditching the aerosol
After almost four decades at the firm, Baillie Gifford’s joint senior partner Charles Plowden will retire on 30 April 2021. Following his retirement, Malcolm MacColl will become joint senior partner.
Charles Randell HM Treasury has announced the appointment of Charles Randell CBE as the new Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Alice Blackwell, Glenmorangie Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland holding one of the 9 massive silver neck chains. The 9 surviving examples are being showcased for the first time in the exhibition. A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland is to show for the first time how silver,
Royal Bank of Scotland has dropped out of a major ranking of the world’s largest 500 companies while fellow Edinburgh-based financial giant Standard Life has returned.
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has announced three senior appointments to its board of directors, strengthening its leadership team ahead of a critical year for Scotland’s businesses. Travel and tourism chief Jacqueline Dobson, president of Barrhead Travel and Internova Travel Group&r

