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Edinburgh-based wealth manager Brooks Macdonald has announced it has signed an agreement to lease a new London office at 21 Lombard Street. The lease is for six years with relocation to the new premises in the second half of the Group’s financial year ending June 2020.

Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software has announced the appointment of Angela Brown as finance director. Ms Brown brings over 20 years' experience as a chartered accountant and 13 years' experience as leader of the Scottish business advisory team at international accountancy firm Mazars.

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank has announced the appointment of Colin Neil as its new director of finance. Mr Neil joins the national NHS Board from his former role as assistant director of finance for acute services with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, just as the structural wor

Accountancy and business advisory firm French Duncan LLP has won two new hotel accounting service clients in Germany. The two hotels are operated by French Duncan's existing client, Cycas Hospitality, and will now benefit from the firm's completely paperless accounting function, which provides real-

The Scottish Government has rejected claims that the prospect of a second independence referendum is having a negative effect on investment. Professor Colin Anthony Jones of Heriot-Watt University told The Times that UK financial institutions have spent a smaller percentage of investment expenditure

Councils across England and Wales have been chosen to pilot a scheme that will help local authorities recover unpaid council tax. A total of 29 local authorities have been chosen to be part of the trial working with the DWP and HMRC to be the first to use powers introduced by the Digital Economy Act

Social Investment Scotland (SIS), is launching two new funding challenges this month worth £3.3 million, designed to support all social enterprises – large and small - across Scotland. The investment programmes - Step Up and Scale Up Challenges - have been created to reflect the varying

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), supported by Salix Finance, is launching a £19m programme aimed at boosting investment in energy efficiency across Scotland’s higher education institutions. The progamme will provide accessible support and finance for carbon reduction throughout the se

New research from Close Brothers reveals that nearly half (46 per cent) UK workers aged 55 and over do not feel prepared for their retirement. 

The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has announced that Jane Clark-Hutchison has been elected as its new President. An existing member of the chamber board, Clark-Hutchison has over 25 years’ experience in financial services, currently as Head of Client Relationships, Workplace Distribution at Sc

Proposed tax threshold changes risk Scotland being increasingly unable to attract or retain key individuals in the future, according to leading accountants and business advisors French Duncan. Under Boris Johnson’s tax proposals to raise the higher rate tax threshold to £80,000 for the r

TLT has further grown its UK-wide banking and finance team with the appointment of Catharine MacDonald, who joins from Ashurst as legal director in Glasgow.  Ms MacDonald will work alongside banking and finance partner Douglas Gourlay, who joined TLT in June 2018 as part of a major, ongoin

Originally situated in Glasgow City Chambers with just two staff and a handful of members, Glasgow Credit Union has grown substantially over the past four decades to become the largest and most financially successful credit union in the UK with almost 50,000 members. This Saturday marks 30

Over half (54 per cent) of Scottish businesses that have attempted to raise capital have failed at least once, according to the new Dream Bigger: Funding Ambition report from Smith & Williamson, the financial and professional services firm.

Security specialist Safer Scotland has strengthened its financial infrastructure with the appointment of a new finance manager to oversee the company’s fiscal processes. It has signed up former Balfour Beattie accountant Nicole Finnegan with a remit to assume responsibility for all f