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The culture and heritage sectors are to benefit from a £59 million funding package from the Scottish Government to protect jobs and help the industry weather the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.  A new £15m Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund will provide critical sup

Five members of Deloitte's Scotland team have been included in the ICAS Top 100 Young Chartered Accountants list, which celebrates and recognises 100 inspiring individuals working in the world of accounting, finance, and business. This year’s list names eight young Deloitte professionals,

FRP Advisory has posted a 16% rise in annual revenue and maiden dividend of 0.66p a share despite the economic uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.  FRP is a spin-out of VANTIS, the former Aim-listed accountancy firm which went into administration in 2010.

Glasgow Credit Union scooped the award for Best Credit Union (North) at last night’s national UK Consumer Credit Awards.

Scotland’s specialist rural enterprise support organisation GrowBiz, has launched a comprehensive directory of the country’s rural and island businesses in a bid to support and promote the rural economy.  Rural micro-enterprises across Scotland are being encouraged to sign up to acc

Scotland’s commercial property sales have suffered the worst quarter in a decade, according to The Scottish Property Federation’s (SPF) analysis of the latest commercial property sales figures from the Registers of Scotland.

Alan Hamilton, corporate finance director at Johnston Carmichael, has called on businesses to review their funding requirements ahead of a “perfect storm” of liquidity challenges, as government support for businesses adversely impacted by COVID-19 starts to unwind. The government-ba

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based cryptocurrency wallet and exchange platform, has today announced the launch of its first crowdfunding campaign with Seedrs in its bid to bring the benefits of cryptocurrencies to the mass market. The campaign is now live and accessible via the Seedrs website. It allows user

UK Government proposals to reform the calculation of the Retail Index Price (RPI) could cost £122 billion if plans go ahead to implement the changes in 2025, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has found. It would affect savers, especially those with defined benefit pensions, as wel

UK businesses outperformed their international counterparts on a series of metrics tracking recovery from COVID-19 during July, according to Lloyds Bank.

UK Government debt has reached over £2 trillion for the first time.

The Scottish Government has announced a £1 million support fund for local businesses in Aberdeen who have been affected by the local lockdown restrictions which have been imposed in Aberdeen.

The Chancellor’s current Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a potential future tax trap for buyers according to property management firm Apropos.  The firm believes that whilst welcoming the increased threshold of SDLT to £500,000 to kickstart the housing market after lockdown, the curre

Over five in six (86.1%) respondents to an R3 survey of insolvency professionals in the UK say they expect personal insolvency numbers to increase over the next year, with a significant proportion expecting a rise as early as this autumn.

Scottish company IndiNature, which makes ‘carbon negative’ insulation, has received an £803,000 grant from Zero Waste Scotland. The firm is the latest to receive a share of £8 million in funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Sc