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Loans providing financial support to farmers ahead of Brexit will arrive in bank accounts from October 4th, the Scottish Government announced yesterday.

In a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has been charged with failing to provide passwords for various laptops and phones.

The Farm Energy Company has reached financial close and broken ground on its 28MW solar and wind power development at GSK’s Irvine facility, one of Scotland’s largest individual consumers of electricity.

The UK Government has announced enhanced financial support for the seafood industry with cash grants for seafood and aquaculture businesses across the UK.

The number of Scottish businesses in financial distress has soared by 80%, according to the latest data from Begbies Traynor.

Hanya Partners has appointed financial services expert Philip White as its new consulting director.  Hanya Partners is a management consultancy specialising in IT, supplier management and organisation development with offices in Edinburgh and London.

Glasgow-based wealth manager and financial planning firm The Turris Partnership has been bought by Mattioli Woods in a deal worth up to £1.6 million. Wealth management firm Mattioli Woods, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, will obtain the company's £65m of assets unde

Uber has moved deeper into the financial services industry with the launch of its new Uber Money division .

An investigation has been launched into the financial statements of Interserve. Accounting watchdogs at the Financial Reporting Council are to examine audits by Grant Thornton for the three years from 2015.

The huge scale of the financial waste of Scotland’s long-term empty homes has been exposed by a body tasked with bringing them back into use. The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) has calculated that the owners of the country’s 34,000 empty homes are losing out on an average of £7,500 a y

Scottish businesses are predicted to face further financial pressures with commercial rents expected to rise further over the next 12 months, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) warned today. The RICS UK Commercial Market Survey, Q3 2015, reveals that businesses within the office and

Yvonne Dunn, partner and financial services technology expert at Pinsent Masons, discusses the opportunities made available to businesses through open finance. A 10-year road map strategy published for Scotland’s fintech hub has highlighted “open finance” data as a key theme.

Wall Street clearing houses will be able to provide central clearing services in the EU following a decision which financial experts are calling a blow to the City of London. The European Commission has adopted an equivalence decision determining that the United States Securities and Exchange Commis

Martyn Paterson, financial planner at AAB Wealth, discusses the intricacies of ESG investing. June 5 2020, marked World Environment Day, with World Oceans Day, National Bike Week, and World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought all taking place in the same month. What can they teach us about how

Kerrie Murray has been promoted from chief financial officer to chief executive of manufacturing firm Pryme Group. The chartered accountant joined Pryme Group, which has offices in Dundee, Aberdeenshire, North Shields, Lancaster and Altrincham, in June 2018, as CFO, after having worked more than 10