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Tom Stocker, partner and head of corporate crime, Pinsent Masons, discusses the impact of the Bribery Act on the business community. As the Bribery Act 2010 approaches its 10th birthday on 1 July, it is widely recognised as an excellent piece of legislation which transformed the corporate compliance

Aberdeen-based STC INSISO has reported record revenues of £950,000 for the first quarter of 2021 since STC Global and INSISO merged earlier this year, putting them on course to achieve an annual turnover exceeding £2.5m. The business performance improvements firm has secured £1.5m

National professional services consultancy Begbies Traynor Group has acquired construction sector finance broker MAF Finance Group in a deal worth up to £11.75 million.

Scotland’s first and only menstrual cup brand FEMCUP has launched offering an environmentally sound alternative to tampons and sanitary towels, while also pledging to donate £1 from every sale to local women’s charities. FEMCUP is also supporting individuals experiencing period pov

Gillespie Macandrew has advised independent bookseller Topping & Company on the acquisition of premises. The firm advised on the purchase of the Edinburgh site, a 4,000sqft former bank on Blenheim Place, which the bookseller had leased since summer 2019.

Camerons Strachan Yuill Architects (CSY Architects) has moved into employee ownership thanks to a loan from Triodos Bank UK and support from Co-operative Development Scotland and employee ownership specialists Co-ownership Solutions.

Unity Trust Bank has announced its annual results, including a record 26% rise in net lending and customer deposits (29%). Against a backdrop of historically low-interest rates and economic uncertainty, Unity has maintained its track record of safe and sustainable growth, delivering a strong set of

Opus Business Advisory Group has moved into the Scottish market with the opening of its first Scottish office in Glasgow, led by experienced local insolvency and restructuring expert Mark Harper. With this expansion, Opus will have eleven locations including Glasgow, stretching from Bristol in

The UK Government must continue to be focused on ensuring the success of UK fintech, according to the newly released Kalifa Review of Fintech.

Goldman Sachs has announced it is expanding its Marcus online retail banking service in the United States and plans to bring its new product to the UK this year. Yesterday, the bank launched an automated investment feature in the US that will offer managed portfolios of exchange-traded funds for sto

Scotland’s scale-up – or fast-growth - businesses finished 2020 on a buoyant, optimistic note, with almost £100 million in Venture Capital (VC) investment, according to the latest figures from KPMG. Despite COVID related restrictions hitting the economy hard, the latest KPMG Ventur

Inverness-based fresh produce provider Swansons Food Wholesalers has joined the growing number of employee-owned businesses in Scotland, with over 40 staff given a stake in the business.

The losses suffered by the Scotch Whisky industry as a result of tariffs on Scotch Whisky exports to the United States have reached half a billion pounds, in a situation the industry warns is unsustainable.

Two Aberdeen-based firms, STC Global and Insiso, have merged to realise a shared vision for providing business performance improvement through the smart integration of process design, health & safety solutions, training and innovative software. Under their new name ‘STC INSISO’, the

Chad Griffin, restructuring specialist at FRP Advisory, discusses how the current downturn in the North Sea is likely to see a far deeper level of oil and gas restructurings and a higher level of insolvencies than in 2015, the last comparable period when there was a much stronger base position than