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Martin McKay, executive director of regeneration at Clyde Gateway, discusses the economic opportunities for regeneration areas like Clyde Gateway where resilience can be built in.  I don’t believe the pandemic will lead to the demise of the office. Companies are diverse and need workplace

Kirsty Ross, head of KPMG’s family business team in Scotland, discusses the resilience of family businesses and how firms can use their generational experience to ride out the COVID-19 storm. For Scotland’s family business community, 2020 will be a year to forget. A global pandemic, lock

Big Four audit firm Deloitte has been slapped with a record £15 million fine by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in connection with failures in its audit of Autonomy. The watchdog today announced sanctions against the firm and former partners Richard Knights and Nigel Mercer following ear

All of Scotland’s 32 local authorities and more than 25 individual community regeneration projects will receive a share of £30 million of new investment for regeneration and town centres. The funding will be available immediately through the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) and the

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust plc, a trust managed by Standard Life Aberdeen, has posted its annual results revealing its net asset value (NAV) total return was -0.5%, marking the second year in a row where the company has reported negative absolute returns.  The share price tot

Edinburgh-based financial services company Nucleus Financial Group has posted strong interim financial results with a 0.7% increase in net revenue despite the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.  For the six months ended 30th June 2020, the firm's assets under administration

Shire Housing Association has obtained a £10.5 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to refinance existing debt, enable future expansion plans and enhance existing office and tenant facilities.

A fund launched by the University of Edinburgh to address the urgent challenges created by the coronavirus virus has raised more than £1 million.

Robert Mackie of Scotland has secured a £250,000 CBILS loan from Barclays as the bank continues to support SMEs in the Kilmarnock area.  The firm is the latest to secure a loan to help navigate the coronavirus lockdown and recovery. Based in Stewarton, the company has been manufactur

Barclays has launched a new digital advice service to tackle the UK’s advice gap and give more people the confidence and support to invest their savings. The new service, called Barclays Plan & Invest, will create a personalised investment plan that’s tailored to a customer’s g

Kelso-based accountancy firm Douglas Home & Co has developed a new coronavirus resilience scheme to help businesses manage the impact of COVID-19.

Katharine Wooller, managing director at Dacxi and Eire, a crypto-based platform which helps bring cryptocurrency to 'the crowd', discusses how the coronavirus pandemic is killing cash and what might replace it. The first time I saw a shop declaring itself cashless, it was unusual enough I took a pic

The latest Red Flag Alert data gathered by Begbies Traynor found there were large numbers of UK businesses experiencing significant financial distress at the end of March 2020, with the overall figure now exceeding half a million (509,000) for the first time.  The research has revealed the larg

Lloyds Bank has informed its workforce that it will be cutting 780 full-time branch jobs in its latest round of staff cuts.

Engineering design and manufacturing firm Albacom is set to expand after raising £500,000 to develop its business in new markets. Albacom secured a £400,000 loan from the Scottish Loan Scheme (SLS), part of the Scottish Government’s Scottish Growth Scheme, which is administered by