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Former Nationwide financial planning director Richard Gray has been appointed by Standard Life to run its 1825 subsidiary’s London office.

Graeme Melrose Glasgow-based McCrea Financial Services has announced the appointment of Graeme Melrose to its senior team as he takes up the role of independent financial adviser.

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £500,000 export finance facility to Subsea Technologies Limited (STL), an international engineering business, specialising in subsea hydraulic and mechanical connectors.

David Ferguson Edinburgh-based fintech company Nucleus Financial has made its debut on London’s Alternative Investment Market this week.

More than 1,100 new homes are to be built in Manchester and Glasgow after Maslow Capital completed a record-breaking £100 million of new facilities across four deals in June.

Caroline Gardner A deal to harmonise staff pay at a cost of £50m a year will absorb projected savings from the reform of Scotland's colleges, says the Auditor General.

Martin Leonard, Castlight COO and Phil Grady (CEO) Castlight Financial, the Glasgow-based financial capability company, has partnered with HSBC UK in the delivery of the bank’s first open banking loan.

A consortium of real estate developers is set to construct one of Glasgow’s largest single-building new offices after acquiring a development site in the heart of the city’s International Financial Services District.

Chris Orr One of Scotland’s leading livestock auctioneers, Lawrie & Symington, has appointed a new finance director.

Jason O’Shaughnessy Glasgow-based fintech firm Castlight Financial, which aggregates data from multiple sources to analyse disposable income and credit worthiness in real-time, has recruited internationally experienced business development entrepreneur, Jason O’Shaughnessy, as a non executive ad

Luigi Aseni, owner of Boteco do Brasil, has purchased the business’ Glasgow venue, strengthening the Brazilian themed bar and restaurant’s positon in the city, after securing a £880,000 financial package from HSBC.

Quartermile, Edinburgh. The Bank of Montreal has announced plans to move its Edinburgh fund management operation into a new flagship office.

Paul Gibson Aberdeen-based Granite Financial Planning has announced that managing director Paul Gibson has been shortlisted for a FT Money Management Financial Planner of the Year Award.

Nichola Stugeon, First Minister of Scotland (centre), with Stuart Irving, global President and CEO of Computershare (third left), Neil Francis, Operations Director at Scottish Development International (second left) and other Computershare staff during the First Minister’s visit to the company’s

Business funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has announced four new appointments across Scotland and the North of England, which it says will enable the business to better serve the funding needs of SMEs in the areas.