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(Image: Phil Wilkinson) Borders-based independent brewer Broughton Ales is to significantly increase its domestic and export beer sales after securing a funding boost of £395,000 from HSBC.

The UK government’s Work and Pensions Committee has launched an investigation into the collapse of Carillion.

Peter Alderdice Law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has completed the Shariah-compliant refinancing of high value office accommodation in Aberdeen.

A man known as "the German James Bond" has been slapped with a two-year suspended sentence for evading over £2 million in tax.

James McIlroy A privately held Scottish biotechnology company run by an undergraduate medical student at Aberdeen University, has raised £500,000 in an oversubscribed seed round of investment.

A billionaire has been ordered to pay £453 million to his ex-wife in the UK's biggest divorce award. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting in the Family Division of the High Court in London yesterday, awarded her 41.5 per cent of the couple's £1 billion “marital assets”, The Times reports. He said

Ruth Kynoch PwC’s Edinburgh-based corporate finance team has advised Perth-based energy giant SSE on the successful sale of their remaining 3 UK PFI streetlighting projects.

Edinburgh-based Sigma Capital Group has revealed that it is progressing plans for the possible launch and flotation of an independent real estate investment trust (REIT).

Last year, Bank of Mum and Dad loaned almost a third (29 per cent) more money to their children compared to 2015, Bank of Scotland’s latest How Scotland Lives research has found. Parents forked out on average £3,987.22 to help their children financially in 2016, rising from £3,079.91 the previo

Emma Carmichael The Association of Women in Property (WiP) has announced its new central Scotland branch chairman for 2017/18.

The Green Party in Germany has said disabled people should be allowed to claim money from the government in order to buy sex on prescription. Elisabeth Scharfenberg, a member of the German parliament, said local authorities could pay for sex workers, who are increasingly being asked to work in the

Commercial finance provider for SMEs, IGF, has completed £5 million in asset based financing to Scottish SMEs since its launch in July.

Paul Mason Accountancy firm Chiene + Tait has recruited the former head of Lomond Advisory, Paul Mason, as a partner to lead its new corporate finance division.

High Court disputes between family members over inheritance south of the border have reached a record high, according to new figures.

Charlotte Nelson, finance expert at Moneyfacts One month after the Bank of England's 0.25 per cent cut in base rates, research by Moneyfacts has found that many lenders are not passing on the reduction to borrowers on variable rates.