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Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has been collaborating with the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) to deliver a series of webinars aimed at helping businesses to mitigate the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As supporters of the SBRC, AAB has been providing input to t

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) is reminding pension schemes to be watchful of how the companies in which invest respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and be prepared to hold directors to account as decisions now may impact their long-term investment prospects. PLSA has said tha

The board of directors of the Edinburgh-headquartered bank Hampden & Co has announced that Simon Miller is set to become its new chairman. Mr Miller will rejoin the private bank he helped found under its original name, Scoban, in 2010. Scoban was rebranded as Hampden & Co in 2014 and opened

Wylie & Bisset has launched a helpline to deliver free business advice to help steer local businesses through the coronavirus lockdown period. The impetus for setting up the helpline is to assist those businesses that, through no fault of their own, find themselves confronting various press

“Extreme pressure” is being placed on the Scottish construction industry due to the lack of detail for the UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a building company has warned.

Cash in transit company RMS Group is to open a new centre in Inverness as part of its expansion strategy.

Mark Brown, audit, accounts and business assurance partner at Meston Reid & Co, details the options available for businesses during the current coronavirus pandemic.  We know things can change quickly in the world of business, but this is altogether new territory for companies across Scotla

Barclays has announced free banking measures for UK SMEs who have a turnover of under £250,000.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced further measures to support firms affected by the coronavirus crisis, by bolstering business interruption loans for small businesses and announcing a new scheme for larger companies. To maximise the support available, the Chancellor is extending the Coronavirus B

Banks across the UK have seen their share prices drop as they were forced to freeze dividend payments and share buybacks after the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) called for the dividends to be suspended.

Britain's mortgage lenders have dramatically increased their loan-to-value deposits for house purchases with Halifax and Barclays among those seeking 40% down-payments to fund buyers amid rising expectations of a housing crash. 

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has called for help for companies and entrepreneurs currently 'falling through the cracks' of government support, as new figures underline the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on firms.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to 4 March 2020 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm is currently working flat out lodging new appeals against rating assessments on the ba

The UK's wrongful trading laws will be suspended to allow businesses to "weather the storm" of the coronavirus pandemic, Alok Sharma, the UK business secretary, has announced.

Stuart Robb and Michelle Elliot of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery have been appointed as joint administrators of The Sea Door Limited, the operators of The Scalloway Hotel in Shetland. The two were appointed administrators on Wednesday last week.