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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has elected a Perthshire business leader as their new operations director to head up the group’s UK-wide operational management and member organisation. The results of FSB’s volunteer elections were announced at the organisation’s Annua

New data has revealed that the hottest spot for buyer demand in the UK right now is Falkirk with the ratio of properties listed as sold to those still for sale currently at 65 per cent.

A new survey has highlighted a divergence in approach to Board remuneration by housing associations in Scotland and England. Audit, tax & consulting services provider RSM said the majority of housing associations in Scotland continue to resist Board remuneration despite growing positiv

Household savings in Scotland have fallen by 60 per cent since 2010.

Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader Alistair Carmichael has lodged a Bill in the House of Commons calling for Scottish banknotes to be accepted throughout the UK. Mr Carmichael will present his Legal Tender (Scottish Banknotes) Bill to Parliament as he bids to encourage businesses across th

Accountancy firm Saffery Champness has discovered that a number of its farm and estate clients have received automatic refunds of payments made in January on account of income tax for the 2018/19 tax year. It transpires that this is because the HMRC system had not been set up to accept the first 201

More than one million people passed through Edinburgh Airport in March 2019, making it the first ever one million passenger March for the terminal.

Citizens Advice Scotland has launched a financial health check service to help low income families maximise their income. Targeted at low income families and older people, but open to everyone, the Financial Health Check aims to motivate people to seek financial advice to ensure that they

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed Michael McAllister as its regional head of payroll outsourcing, in a moved brokered by HRC Recruitment. In the newly-created role, Mr McAllister joins RSM Employer Services Limited to lead the firm’s payroll services offering at its centres of e

In the decade since first Debt Relief Order (DRO) was approved in 2009, £2.3 billion of debt relief has been granted helping more than a quarter of a million people out of debt. Although never available in Scotland, the first DRO was approved 10 years ago in April 2009 with the aim of ass

TSB has today announced a UK banking first, a Fraud Refund Guarantee, to ensure the bank’s 5.2 million customers are protected if they are an innocent victim of fraud – whether it’s unauthorised transactions on their accounts or customers tricked into authorising payments to frauds

A former professional rugby player has secured funding from Barclays to support the expansion of his removals and storage business. With a £100,000 lending package from Barclays, business owner Neil Adam Sinclair hopes to triple the self-storage capabilities of Sterling Sinclair Removals to 35

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has announced former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Caroline Rainbird as its new chief executive. Ms Rainbird will replace Mark Neale when she assumes her new role at the FSCS on 3 May following her predecessor's departure.

It seems workers in Scotland are beating the bosses when it comes to running a business after new research revealed that revenues at employee-owned firms are outstripping that at their traditionally-structured peers.

Business Gateway services provider Elevator has announced the finalist for the 20th edition of its prestigious annual awards.