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Edinburgh-based financial services company Nucleus Financial Group has announced that it will defer the publication of its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2019 on 24 March 2020 following the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) request for delay issued yesterday.  Yester

Hillington-based fintech company Beeks Financial Cloud has outlined its plans for growth after posting a 46% increase in first half profits. The company made an underlying profit of £0.6 million in the six months to December 31, an increase of 46% in the same period of the year before. Similar

Moneybarn, the car financing arm of Provident Financial, is facing a £2.8 million fine from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Edinburgh-based financial services company Nucleus Financial Group has posted positive results in its Q4 2019 Assets Under Administration (AUA) update. In the three months to 31 December 2019, Nucleus has seen its AUA increased by 16.3% to reach £16.1 billion. This is a 2.8% increase over the

Scottish companies considering a listing will hear from a panel of experts on how it can work best for their business at an IPO dinner hosted by Pinsent Masons and EY. Gordon McArthur, chief executive of fintech company Beeks Financial Cloud Group, which floated in 2017, and corporate finance expert

Beeks Financial Cloud, a cloud computing and connectivity provider for financial markets, has secured two significant contracts, signing a $1 million annualised contract with a global financial markets technology provider and a £1.1 million contract over three years with a cloud-based pay

Scottish Financial Enterprise has bolstered its ranks with the appointment of RBS chairman in Scotland Malcolm Buchanan as board director. Mr Buchanan is chairman, Scotland for the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the bank’s managing director for corporate & commercial banking, responsible for

Former RBS Edinburgh senior finance manager Neeraj Kapur has been appointed as the new chief financial officer of Provident Financial. Mr Kapur will join the Board and start as chief financial officer on 1 April 2020.

Anthony Rafferty and Viva Rudkin have been appointed as the new directors for the board of financial services representative body Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). Anthony Rafferty is managing director of fintech company Origo Services Limited and Viva Rudkin is managing director o

Edinburgh financial planning firm Johnston Financial is on the verge of completing a two-year management buyout which it says will accelerate a period of ambitious growth that aims to double the size of the business. Johnston Financial has been operating in Edinburgh since 1987 and now has more than

Robust financial planning has put Perth and Kinross Council in a good position to tackle a projected budget shortfall of £52 million over the next five years but it must continue to drive forward improvements, the Accounts Commission said today.

Businesses in Scotland are once again seeing escalating instances of advanced or ‘critical’ distress’ with levels here rising more than in almost any other part of the UK in the second quarter of 2019 when compared with the same period the previous year. The growing financial distr

The financial challenges facing Scotland's college sector have increased, says the spending watchdog. An increase in Scottish Government funding to colleges will cover only the costs of making staff pay and conditions consistent across the sector. Meanwhile, money allocated for buildings and infrast

David Ferguson Scottish independent wrap platform provider, Nucleus, has executed a long-term agreement with London-based Bravura Solutions to provide direct access to its Sonata application, the core system underpinning the Nucleus wrap platform.

Graeme Jones Scottish Financial Enterprise is partnering with The Prince’s Trust to help support young people to develop the skills and confidence they need to live, learn and earn.