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The Edinburgh-based fintech company Paysend has reached one million customers within just two years. The customer milestone was reached for its card-to-card money transfer service, Global Transfers.

Insurance giant Aviva, which employs 2,500 staff across hubs in Perth and Bishopbriggs, has announced that first half operating profits rose 1 per cent to £1.4bn driven by a strong result in general insurance, which more than offset weakness in fund management and the lack of longevity re

Doctors and GPs in Scotland are likely to have to wait for some time before they see any positive changes to their taxation following a commitment by the UK Government to review how doctors’ pensions are taxed, a leading accountant specialising in the medical sector has warned.

Global asset management company Capital Dynamics has secured a £63 million loan from Aberdeen Standard Investments to finance The Whiteside Hill Wind Farm in Dumfries and Galloway. The wind farm is owned by funds managed by Capital Dynamics, under its Clean Energy Infrastructure investmen

LGIM Real Assets has announced that it has committed, on behalf of its clients including Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI), £285 million in funding to City Property Glasgow, a wholly owned subsidiary of Glasgow City Council (“GCC”) to support its recently settled

Business development organisation Entrepreneurial Scotland (ES) has announced a further two speakers for its upcoming annual Summit, on April 25 – the foremost networking event on the annual Scottish business calendar. David S. Rose, chief executive officer (CEO) of the global financ

Global commercial real estate services firm Avison Young has announced the acquisition of UK-based real estate advisory business GVA. GVA's offices, including those in Glasgow and Edinburgh, will now come under the Avison Young brand.

Following the UK Government’s quiet announcement last night that from May 15th 2019 ‘mixed age couples’ – where one partner is of working age and the other is above State Pension age – will no longer be entitled to put in a new claim for Pension Credit, charity Age UK

Marcel van Poecke Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire Aberdeen-based EnerMech Group Ltd, an international services company providing critical asset support to the energy, infrastructure and industrials sectors, from Lime Rock Partners.

As student's unions up and down the country brace themselves for the latest assault from this year's intake of freshers, parents sending their children to university now believe it will cost them on average, £17,165 over the length of the average degree course, the latest Lloyds Bank Spending Powe

The UK Government has today published details of new tools it claims will improve rescue opportunities for financially-distressed companies.

Edinburgh-based True Build Trade Services Limited (“True Build”), a leading building and joinery business, has doubled the size of its workforce in its head office following funding from Santander Business Banking.

Alastair Grier CarMoney, the fast-growing Glasgow-based motor finance business, is set to expand its financing activity into car leasing as a result of entering into a partnership agreement with car finance brokering operation Fleet Alliance.

Almost half of all (48 per cent) Scottish workers have less than £1,000 in savings and more than half (55 per cent) do not have anyone in their household who they could depend on to support them financially.

Sir Brian Souter ICAS President Sir Brian Souter CA has today launched the first of a series of ideas to help boost economic growth including a Gift Aid scheme for Start Ups.