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Edinburgh-based start-up, Sustainably, voted Richard Branson's Start-Up of the Year in 2019, have announced the launch of their £300,000 crowdfunding campaign on crowdcube. The mother-daughter team are looking to raise the funds to enable them to market to new users and charities as well as im

Hillcrest has received funding of £100,000 from Barclays to support people in Scotland who have been most affected by the pandemic. The funds will enable Hillcrest to upscale the services they currently deliver to help vulnerable people, such as low-income families, isolated older people and p

Watts Commercial Finance's team in Scotland has secured funding offers totalling over £700,000 for three clients with all facilities being fully approved less than seven days after being submitted. A very promising sign for the strength of the Scottish economy, this funding amongst all the oth

Neil Norman, head of entrepreneurial tax and senior tax partner at Chiene + Tait, discusses the issues surrounding potential changes to taxation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

An Australian advert that displays a man eating a bat sandwich is being investigated by the country's advertising watchdog.

Finance secretary Kate Forbes has said that the Scottish Government is both 'surprised and disappointed' over Chancellor Rishi Sunak's business support announcement made yesterday. The chancellor announced that UK businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors are to receive a one-of

Vector Capital plc, a commercial lending group that offers loans to businesses in the UK, has announced its intention to seek admission to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The company has also announced a conditional placing of 8,052,895 new Ordinary Shares, at a price of 38 pence per sh

The right to blow up a casino formerly owned by Donald Trump is being auctioned off by a US city.

Scottish Friendly has announced a new initiative to support The Mental Health Foundation over the Christmas season. The financial mutual will donate £10 to the charity for every My ISA product it sells throughout December, including junior ISAs.

The new Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has been set three core missions to ensure it addresses the “grand challenges” facing Scotland. The missions have been confirmed to the Bank after being approved by MSPs.

One of the world's largest banks has proposed a special tax on people who work from home.

More Scottish companies are expected to sell and lease back their premises as they explore alternative ways of raising capital and strengthening their balance sheets, according to analysis from Knight Frank. The firm found that £1.05 billion has been raised by companies selling and leasing bac

According to new research from Co-operatives UK, community ownership models are helping to create a new generation of UK businesses that are better equipped to withstand the COVID-19 crisis. The organisation’s biggest ever study of the community shares market finds that of those businesses who

National Savings & Investments (NS&S) has said that it could cut interest rates further and close products after savers invested a record sum of nearly £40 billion during the coronavirus lockdown.

Edinburgh-based bank Hampden & Co has reported strong results during the third quarter of this year on the back of demand for borrowing.  Total lending was up 16% against the previous quarter at £289 million and increased 77% on a year-on-year basis.  Deposits also increased