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A new way to market properties for sale has been launched by a collective group of solicitor estate agents and ESPC. Offers being accepted subject to the sale of the buyer’s property is common practice in many property transactions across Scotland. This proposition is brought to market to targ

A director of three property management companies based in Glasgow has been disqualified as a director for 12 years after using his companies to take out Bounce Back Loans totalling £135,000 that the companies were not eligible for. Brendan Michael Gaughan, 40, was director of Gaughan Group Lt

Britain's biggest banks are expected to report profits of £33 billion when they reveal their third-quarter results next week. The figures from Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group, Barclays and HSBC are expected to show their combined profits rising from £25 billion in 2019 to £33 b

Johnston Carmichael has been announced as a gold sponsor of the first-ever Scottish Games Week. The business, which advises a growing number of game developers, has chosen to sponsor the inaugural event to support the thriving and rapidly-evolving games ecosystem in this country.

Tech-enabled business critical services firm AAB Group has announced four new appointments aiming to develop talent and strengthen the leadership team based in their Central Scotland offices. Four new directors have been appointed and promoted across the range of services offered by AAB Group, inclu

An independent Scotland will adopt a new currency "as soon as practicable" under economic plans unveiled by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today. A new paper, titled "Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence", sets out the Scottish Government's economic prospectus for independen

A group of 10 organisations including MoneySavingExpert and Carnegie UK Trust have called on the government to take action on fraud in an open letter addressed to the prime minister. The letter dated 14 October 2022 reads:

Scotland’s Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator, Smart Things Accelerator Centre, has marked its first anniversary by making a string of senior appointments to its team. Former Scottish Enterprise managing director and interim CEO Linda Hanna is now in place as STAC’s head of partnership

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Corporate Finance team has advised Douglas and Iain Anderson, the joint managing directors of specialist plant hire company GAP Group Limited, in the sale of their separately owned vehicle hire company to international hire giant SIXT. The vehicle hire business was se

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has warned that self assessment customers who are starting to think about their annual tax returns for the 2021 to 2022 tax year should guard against being targeted by fraudsters. In the 12 months to August 2022, HMRC responded to more than 180,000 referrals of suspicio

Glasgow-based Pastéis Lisboa, Scotland’s first specialist Pastel de Nata bakery, is among 12 small businesses to be selected as champions of UK start-ups by Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank. The announcement comes as the programme celebrates its 10-year anniversary, hav

NFU Mutual is today warning ghost brokers who buy fraudulent policies on behalf of others that they will be found out and could face prosecution. The mutual insurer is supporting the Insurance Fraud Bureau’s campaign to raise awareness of ghost broking, which can leave vulnerable people with i

Total company insolvencies in England and Wales in the second quarter of 2022 reached their highest quarterly level since 2009, according to the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS said the rise had been driven by creditors' Voluntary Liquidations (CVLs).&nb

More than 733,000 retirees across the UK are preparing to return to work as the cost-of-living crisis escalates, according to new research by My Pension Expert. The UK’s leading at-retirement adviser commissioned an independent survey of 2,000 UK adults. It found that, for 12% of those in reti

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has called bank chiefs to Downing Street to address issues with mortgages after uncertainty in the mortgage market led rates to soar to a 14-year high of 6%. The increase in rates also triggered a flurry of mortgage agreements being withdrawn by lenders.