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Almost 60 businesses in the Scottish Borders are expecting to increase their turnover by at least £100,000 over the next three years after receiving support from Scottish Enterprise's Business Gateway service.

Nicola Standen Nicola Standen, manager and adviser in the Personal Debt team at Campbell Dallas considers the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) as an effective debt management solution.

Matt Roberts Royal Bank of Scotland has provided Cambuslang-based fitness club, Fit4Less, with a £170,500 funding package to help with start-up costs and to fit out its new premises.

A police inspector who was jailed for fraud has been told he will have to repay more than £100,000.

Iain Fraser North-East gym business, Aden Morgan Summers Limited, which trades as Millennium Leisure, has been placed in administration with Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan, partners with FRP Advisory LLP, appointed as joint administrators.

Christine Scott The Scottish Government has the power to stop charities building up unaffordable pension liabilities in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has told Holyrood leaders.

Moira Kelly Tax professionals have welcomed another strong performance from the body charged with administering and collecting Scotland’s devolved taxes but cautioned that the numbers are likely to fuel further concerns over the Scottish Government’s flagship Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (

Claire MarwickEdinburgh investment house Martin Currie has hailed the success of the FUTURE AS5ET, a one day conference held at the capital’s International Conference Centre aimed at secondary school fifth year girls from across Scotland to promote the fact that gender should never be seen as a ba

Following this week’s news that the Financial Reporting Council has cleared KPMG of any wrongdoing over the audit it carried out of HBOS immediately prior to the bank’s collapse, the accountancy watchdog's impartiality has come under scrutiny after it was highlighted that 11 of the ‘Big Four�

Adrian Innes (left) is welcomed by and LendingCrowd founder Stuart Lunn Edinburgh-based alternative finance provider to SMEs, LendingCrowd, says it has topped 200 cumulative loan deals in August and posted a record month for the P2P lender with around £2.5 million of funds inflow and four Scottish

Liz Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Tim Allan, President, Scottish Chambers of Commerce and Liu Xiaoming, China’s Ambassador to the UK Scotland’s business-to-business links with China have reached a “turning point” thanks to pro-active private-sector leadership, the

The Bank of England this morning said that it will again hold interest rates at 0.25 per cent but noted that higher inflation and a pick-up in growth could lead to a rate hike in "the coming months".

The total outstanding bank debt of Scottish farms increased 5 per cent over the past year to reach its highest level since records began, according to the latest statistics released by Scotland's Chief Statistician.

More than 3.9 million over-55s plan to downsize to a cheaper property later in life – but it is convenience rather than the cash that is their biggest motivation, according to new research from Prudential.

Simon Cowie, managing partner at Aberdeen-based Infinity Partnership, and client relations manager Greg Houston Aberdeen accountancy and business advisory practice Infinity Partnership has been shortlisted for two honours at the 2017 British Accountancy Awards in London.