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Borrowing by Scotland’s social housing providers has surged over the last year, with total available debt facilities exceeding £7 billion for the first time, the Scottish Housing Regulator has revealed. A new report from the regulator reveals a significant rise in lending, signalling gro

Clark Contracts director John Mooney has marked 30 years at the company, having joined in 1995. John began his career training as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young between 1985 and 1989, before spending six years with a general contractor.

An urgent call has been made for the UK government to scrap stamp duty on share trades, with investment bank Peel Hunt warning that its continuation risks a corporate exodus from the London Stock Exchange to New York. The warning is prompted by AstraZeneca's decision to upgrade its US listing. As th

Recent press articles are heightening speculation around the potential introduction of a National Insurance levy on partnership profits. Professional services firms may therefore be facing a pivotal moment, Louise Cupples writes. A thinktank proposal suggests a 6.9% tax on partnership profits - aime

The UK's top 1% of taxpayers were responsible for approximately one-third of all income tax and capital gains tax (CGT) collected last year, according to new figures from HMRC.

MHA plc, which has offices in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, has been named 'best newcomer of the year' at the prestigious annual AIM awards. In association with the London Stock Exchange, the awards identify the quoted companies and entrepreneurs who have harnessed AIM to help them fulfil their ambition a

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has announced a significant leadership transition, appointing new co-managing partners as part of its long-term succession plan. Calum Paterson, who has led the firm as managing partner since co-founding it in 2000, will move to the role of chairman and senior partner.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused to allow the director of a liquidated company who was also the director of a creditor of that company to act as lay representative for the latter after finding that he was not a suitable person to act as the defender’s representative. Pursuer Colin Hastings

Three years after the collapse of Dundee construction firm McGill, its administration has closed with just £185,689 paid to creditors – all of it going to former employees.

MHA has announced strong full-year results for the period ending 31 March 2025, immediately prior to the Company’s IPO on 15 April which raised £98m and was the largest AIM IPO of 2025 and the largest in the professional services sector for five years. In Scotland, where MHA has offices

Weir Group PLC has reported a mixed performance for the first six months of its 2025 fiscal year, with a fall in statutory profit contrasting with strong growth in adjusted earnings. The Scottish engineering firm has raised its interim dividend and upgraded its full-year operating margin guidance.

Homeless Network Scotland has appointed Alex MacEachin as treasurer to the board. Chartered accountant Alex trained and practised at multinational giant BDO and has extensive experience in property and construction finance. He joins HNS from real estate investment firm LXi REIT where he was finance

A furniture store has been ordered to pay damages to a couple who bought a sofa without knowing its feather cushions would need to be regularly fluffed. Canadian couple Donna and Thomas Dobko launched civil proceedings against Muse & Merchant after being disappointed with the floppiness of their

ReVentas, a Scottish start-up pioneering plastic dissolution recycling, has secured its Series A funding to enable the scaling of its plastic recycling technology from pilot plant to commercial operation over the next 3 years.

Scottish councils are grappling with a significant financial squeeze as mounting pressures from inflation, rising costs, and escalating demand for services outstrip additional investment from the Scottish Government, according to Audit Scotland. In 2025/26 councils received over £15 billion in