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Lockton, the Glasgow-headquartered corporate insurance broker established to service the Scottish corporate risk market in 2014, has doubled its turnover in the year to April 2016. The firm now controls premiums in excess of £10m.

Michelle Sutherland

Cat MacLean Cat MacLean, a partner at MBM Commericial, about achieving cultural change in the banking sector and understanding how a new financial system could work.

Major changes to the tenancy laws in Scotland will give more security to tenants, but also produce hazards for landlords, write Lucy Harington and Louise McAlister from the Commercial Dispute Resolution Team at TLT LLP.

Airdrie Savings Bank, Scotland’s only independent, mutual bank, has produced a twist on the cashback mortgage idea allowing employees, trustees and volunteers of thousands of Scotland’s third sector organisations and social enterprises benefit by £250. Many banks offer cashback to borrowers as

Phil Anderson with Karen Moore, Diabetes UK regional fundraiser, (right) and Lesley Mitchell, Business Development Manager at Aberdeen Douglas. The managing director of a north-east financial services company is celebrating after making waves for a local charity.

Asset-rich North Sea businesses are turning to alternative methods of funding ongoing operations as conditions in the region continue to prove challenging, according to lawyers at HBJ Gateley. The development comes as the UK government revealed that it has incurred a loss from North Sea oil and gas

Annual rent rises in Scotland are at a three-year low, although Edinburgh is bucking the trend with record price increases, the latest Scotland Buy-to-Let Index from Your Move has found. Average residential rents in Scotland have climbed 0.6 per cent in the twelve months to April 2016, in the slowes

A 73-year-old American man is in jail after he allegedly tried to deposit almost a gram of methamphetamine along with his money into a bank in the small Texas town of Wichita Falls. The local Times Record News reports that Louis Fueque Kent has been charged with possession of a controlled substance

KPMG has been appointed joint administrator at Aberdeen engineering firm Enterprise Engineering Services Limited where 58 staff have been made redundant after the continued low oil price saw turnover fall from £23 million in 2014 to £17 million in 2015. KPMG, which has been appointed joint adminis

Well known Glenrothes accountant Peter Southcott, a partner with EQ Accountants, has been elected President of Fife Chamber of Commerce. Members of the business support organisation elected Mr Southcott as president at the group’s AGM at the Bay Hotel in Kinghorn last week.

Michelle Sutherland Michelle Sutherland, a legal director specialised in Employment law at Macroberts, writes about the recent introduction of The Enterprise Act 2016, examining the main aims, the controversy attracted by some of its provisions and whether there is scope for further regulations to b

The average house price in Scotland’s seaside towns has grown by £348 per month since 2005, according to new data. The latest Seaside Towns Review from the Bank of Scotland found that over the past decade, the average price has grown by 39 per cent, from £108,449 to £150,210 – exceeding the 3

  Aberdein Considine’s Bob Fraser and Scott Brown launch the firm’s new 360-degree property tours

Blair Nimmo KPMG, administrators of McEwens of Perth, the venerable independent fashion store chain with premises in Oban, Ballater and Perth, have revealed that unsecured creditors have lost up to £2.875 million following the collapse of the company.