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An Edinburgh-based company has announced it has completed its transition to become Scotland’s latest employee-owned business, with 14 members of staff becoming majority owners.

Yvonne Dunn, Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP International law firm Pinsent Masons has been appointed as a global strategic partner to FinTech Scotland and will sit on the board of the fintech sector enabler.

Graeme Mackay and Ken Pattullo of Begbies Traynor Professional services firm Begbies Traynor has appointed Graeme Mackay as a director in its Dundee office.

Alan Steel The founder of a Linlithgow-based wealth management firm, which now looks after over £1.25 billion in client assets, has been presented with the prestigious WeDO Scotland Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

Higher exchange rates and a pick up in real wages mean Scottish travellers will be able to buy more on this year’s summer holidays abroad, according to new analysis from PwC.

Santander UK is poised to launch a standalone digital unit in the next few months aimed at the UK's small and medium-sized enterprises, according to reports.

Nearly one in three couples (31 per cent) have secret savings or investments that they have deliberately started without telling their partner or spouse, the Prudential has found.

A third (32 per cent) of Scotland’s first time buyers believe their parents influenced the decisions they made in buying their first home, according to new research from housebuilder Barratt Homes.

McPhee managing director Brinsley McFarlane Private equity group Elaghmore Partners has acquired Scottish concrete mixer firm McPhee Mixers in a deal worth about £5 million.

The number of properties in Scotland which sold for more than a million pounds increased by 4 per cent in 2017, compared to 2016, according to analysis from the Bank of Scotland.

Martin Gill Business output has fallen but firms remain optimistic about future growth, while employment continues to rise, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisors BDO.

A company director who was jailed for submitting false VAT claims has been ordered to repay nearly £190,000.

Aberdeen accountancy firm Infinity Partnership has targeted further growth after a multi-million-pound investment in a new office – more than double the size of its previous location.

Pauline Biddle Deloitte has announced Pauline Biddle as its new managing partner of regional markets in a role that will see her lead all of the firm’s regional practice senior partners outside of London.

Royal Bank of Scotland in England & Wales and its subsidiary NatWest retail banking business in Scotland, which had been due to be cleaved off and launched as a separate ‘challenger bank’, under the brand name, Williams & Glyn, are to be reintegrated back into the core bank resulting in