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A group of 29 Kintyre dairy farmers have launched a crowdfunding campaign to save Campbeltown Creamery, producers of the world-famous Mull of Kintyre cheddar.

Glasgow-based private equity firm Maven Capital Partners has led a £12 million investment in Manchester cloud computing group LIMA Networks and Data Centre UK. The funding includes an equity raise from Maven Investor Partners, a syndicate of institutional, family office and high net worth inve

The British fintech sector faces a shortfall of talent, according to a census of UK fintech firms conducted by EY and Innovate Finance.

A proposed local inheritance tax would affect nine in ten Scottish estates. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Scotland – a think tank – has suggested the tax in order to raise up to £200 million per year for public services.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has launched a new service to help consumers beat online scammers.

The University of Glasgow has agreed to pay back £20 million after revelations that it benefited from the slave trade.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling on Edinburgh Fringe authorities to allow a giant inflatable vagina to fly over the city home to Scotland's financial centre.

Equal pay claims have certain special features, and the case of Graysons Restaurants Ltd v Jones and others highlights what that means in an insolvency context. Equal pay claims are based on discrimination principles but are basically breach of contract claims. They also have a unique treatment unde

Fife fintech company PaySend which specialises in international transfers has closed its latest crowdfunding drive after more than doubling its target. The crowdfunding effort, launched with platform Seedrs, saw Kirkcaldy-based PaySend aim to raise £4.26 million for a 3.3 per ce

Anderson Anderson Brown (AAB) has announced the appointment of Philip McGrath as corporate finance manager in their specialist equity funding team. The accountancy firm said Mr McGrath brings significant experience supporting clients in raising Seed and Series A funding rounds across a wide ran

Thomson Cooper Accountants have revealed their role in securing a £1.6 million grant for leading music and dementia charity, Playlist for Life. The award from the National Lottery Community Fund will be used to raise awareness of the benefits of playlists, and part fund the expansion of t

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has called on Conservative party leader candidate Boris Johnson to limit his ambition to strongly raise the higher-rate income tax threshold, and warned that there are huge cost implications for various other spending commitments he has made. The propo

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

Fife fintech company PaySend has already smashed through the crowdfunding target it set earlier this month in a capital raising round that valued the firm at £125 million. The crowdfunding campaign, launched with platform Seedrs, saw Kirkcaldy-based PaySend aim to rais

The number of interest-only mortgages fell by (13.1 per cent) in 2018 compared to the previous year, UK Finance figures published today reveal. It means the total number of pure interest-only mortgages has now fallen by over half (54 per cent) in the past seven years, from 2.5 million in 2012 to 1.2