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Aberdeen Football Club’s finance director, Kevin MacIver, has been appointed to the club's board of directors. Mr MacIver, a qualified accountant with 30 years' experience, joined the club as finance director in November 2018.

Start-ups whose routes for investment and growth have been impacted by COVID-19 will be eligible for support through a new £38 million package announced by the Scottish Government today. The package, to be managed by Scottish Enterprise, will include three levels of support to meet the needs o

In the second quarter of 2020, angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland maintained the high level of equity investment activity seen in the first quarter, bucking the trend of a decline of investment in companies generally during the coronavirus pandemic. Taking these first two quarters of

Helen Foord, founder of Edinburgh-based professional services communications agency ELE Global, shares her top five apps/programmes/systems which will help to run businesses virtually. We're actually in the process of reviewing all of our technology at the moment and that would be one of my key

Jackie Mann and Colin Crosby have been appointed as the new non-executive board members of Audit Scotland. The two are to be appointed by the Scottish Commission for Public Audit following an open recruitment exercise.

Dean Banks, a Scottish Masterchef finalist and restaurateur, has hit his crowdfunding target of £25,000 within just two days. The Angus-born chef, who appeared on BBC’s Masterchef: The Professionals in 2018, announced the fundraising campaign on social media two days ago,

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched a new Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Equity Fund, offering investors an enhanced way to invest in companies that engage in responsible business practices. The Aberdeen Standard SICAV I - Emerging Markets Sustainable and Responsible

Jackie Fraser, Inverness-based partner at accountants Chiene + Tait, details the reopening of Scotland's tourism sector after the coronavirus lockdown. Tourism is one of Scotland’s most important and fast growing sectors contributing over £11bn to the nation’s annual GDP. Last year

In light of recent updates from the US on new tariffs applied to $3.1billion of European goods, of which Scotch Whisky is included (already with a 25% tariff), Niall Brown, senior portfolio director of Braeburn Whisky comments on how this will impact whisky cask investment and why it could be b

Burness Paull has completed a multi-million-pound fundraising round which saw the firm's top equity partners double their capital stakes to £300,000. Partners chose to inject the cash into the business instead of raise bank borrowings, The Lawyer reports. The firm has also reduced its monthly

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has called for VAT to be cut in the hospitality and tourism industry to help businesses who have been hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.

Paul Dounis and Matthew Haw of RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP, the joint administrators of Jablite Limited and Styropack (UK) Limited have saved 155 jobs in Aberdeen after completing a prepack sale of the business and assets of both companies.  Mr Dounis and Mr Haw were appointed join

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for “swift, substantial and immediate action” to bolster the economy, as its Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) found that UK economic conditions deteriorated at an unprecedented rate in the second quarter of 2020.

Lloyds Bank has announced plans to move further into wealth management and insurance services in its next strategy update.

More employees will become owners of the companies they work for as firms seek to ensure greater resilience in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, according to Lindsays lawyer Douglas Roberts. Mr Roberts has advised on more than 10 Employee Ownership (EO) deals which have been completed in the