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Responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has launched its online Retail Academy to support product and service-based social enterprises to navigate the complexities of selling goods and services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme is now open for applications and

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory has backed Europe’s first oncology drug discovery accelerator, Cumulus Oncology, leading a £1.7 million investment round. The funding round was supported by the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, Alba Equity,

Eric Curran, managing partner of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, has assured that this housing market will return at some point, as it always does. Property professionals who have been in the front line for a long period of time tend to become slightly battle-hardened and take the view that, whatever c

The Scottish Government needs to be clearer about the role of private finance in public infrastructure projects, according to public sector watchdogs after a new report found schools, hospitals, roads and other assets will cost the public sector more than four times their capital value. Models for i

Dalriada Trustees, one of the largest providers of independent professional trustee services to pensions schemes in the UK, has announced the appointment of John Wilson as had of technical, research and policy. The company has also appointed Sarah Ballantyne as a professional trustee.

Johnston Carmichael has today announced that it is appointing a new CEO and chair on 1 August as part of the firm’s ongoing succession planning. L-R: Andrew Walker, Andrew Shepherd and Sandy Manson.

Aviva, Britain's biggest insurer, which employs 2,500 staff across hubs in Perth and Bishopbriggs, has today announced that Maurice Tulloch will become its new chief executive officer with immediate effect. Sir Adrian Montague, chairman of Aviva, who has been acting in an executive capacity pen

Scotland’s Finance Secretary Derek Mackay and his Welsh counterpart Rebecca Evans have called on the UK Government to provide clarity on post Brexit funding, future budgets and public sector pensions, ahead of a meeting with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss in Cardiff. The Federation

Plans to launch a Scottish stock exchange next year have moved forward after the company behind the project, Bourse Scot Ltd, agreed a partnership with an established European stock market operator. Under a partnership with Euronext, one of the world's largest stock exchange operators, the proposed

Cadworks, Glasgow On-site work on the first speculative office building in Glasgow since 2015 is to commence this month.

KPMG has made a string of new appointments to bolster its oil and gas industry expertise in a move that its says is in response to "increasingly positive signs of an upturn" in the industry.

Rebecca Pick Three Scottish-based female entrepreneurs are celebrating after securing an all-expense paid trip to meet US investors in California next month.

Colin Walls Colin Walls, Head of Global Transaction Banking at Bank of Scotland discusses how the retail and other industries can keep on top of cashflow while meeting demand during the festive season.

The North Sea basin has a two year transformation window in which to ensure a strong, productive and profitable future for the sector, according to senior oil and gas executives interviewed for PwC’s latest report on the future of the troubled industry. The firm’s report entitled A Sea Change, f

Lindsey Paterson New research shows that the UK is missing out on up to £170bn worth of economic benefits by not having enough females in employment.