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Scottish Friendly has announced that it has hired Kirsty Polley as the new head of client services. Kirsty Polley has over 15 years’ experience in financial services, across wealth management and business process outsourcing.

Scotland's food and drink sector is growing three times faster than the whole of the Scottish economy in the last decade, the RBS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has revealed. The bank's PMI was at 53.5 in August, which surpassed the all-manufacturing reading of 49.6.

Insolvency Support Services’ training division, ISS Training, has launched an innovative new Compliance Awareness Online Learning course. The launch has added an online learning platform to the firm’s course delivery methods.

The British fintech sector faces a shortfall of talent, according to a census of UK fintech firms conducted by EY and Innovate Finance.

Written by Stephen Cowan, managing director Yuill + Kyle. Charles Dickens is a British institution. His serial writings had a significant impact on the social consciences of the day, often highlighting the poverty and other hardships which existed in the early part of the 19th century. This may be h

Clyde & Co has entered into an agreement to transfer its Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen estate agency team to Ledingham Chalmers LLP from 4 November this year. All 12 Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen staff, including property partner David Geddie and senior associate Lynne Stewart, will transfer a

Over a third of adults in Scotland order takeaways every week, adding up to a total cost of £1.5 billion per year, new research reveals.

UK public finances saw a rare recent improvement in August as the budget deficit (measured in terms of PSNBex) dipped modestly to £6.4 billion from £6.9bn in August 2018, according to EY ITEM Club.

Alex Docherty, tax partner at Johnston Carmichael, wrote for The Courier and Advertiser about concerns over farmhouse tax relief.

Clydesdale Bank owner CYBG has announced that it will close the former Virgin Money HQ in Edinburgh. The closure is part of a restructuring effort which will result in around 330 jobs being lost.

AG Barr said its 3% share increase is down to shoppers' willingness to pay more for Irn Bru.

Life sciences company ODx is opening a new medical technology research and development centre in Inverness. The opening of the centre will create over 30 highly-skilled jobs within the next three years. The centre will require engineers, microbiologists, data scientists and lab technicians.

Wylie & Bisset has advised small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who supply to larger businesses to conduct an urgent review of their business strategy and crisis planning in the wake of the collapse of Thomas Cook. The chartered accountants are urging businesses to conduct such a review in

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has sold a former Farmfoods outlet in Dumfries to Amber Taverns for an undisclosed sum. The former retail unit will be converted into a new modern pub with Amber looking to open in time for Christmas this year.

The Scottish Government has invested £14.7 million in a Glasgow-based satellite company to help create more than 260 jobs in Scotland’s space sector.