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Edinburgh-based Rockifi, a new global streaming service, has launched today aiming to capture a significant share of the worldwide hard rock and heavy metal music market, which is worth upwards of £19 billion.  Rockifi offers the only dedicated streaming platform for fans and artists

A new online life and legacy planning platform has been launched following an additional £600,000 investment from savings and investments businesses. Legado, based in Edinburgh, launched today following the significant financial backing from Prudential and FNZ.

The Reivers Road, an innovative GPS-triggered self-drive audio trail of the Scottish Borders, has launched this week and is expected to attract tourists to the area as the sector reopens following lockdown. Founded by Debi Webster and Alastair Cunningham, who have worked in the tourism industry for

Edinburgh-based PR firm Muckle Media has announced a number of innovative support programmes, including a £20,000 PR grant fund to help businesses use PR and marketing to support economic survival. The £20,000 Muckle Helps grant is a 100% free pot of PR fee funding, which opened for appl

Jackie Fraser, Inverness-based partner at accountants Chiene + Tait, details the reopening of Scotland's tourism sector after the coronavirus lockdown. Tourism is one of Scotland’s most important and fast growing sectors contributing over £11bn to the nation’s annual GDP. Last year

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has sent out more than one million tax credit renewal notices with incomplete information to addresses across the UK. When the automatic renewal notices were sent out, 1.2 million of them did not include income details which are usually clearly stated on the document.&n

KPMG’s Aberdeen team has completed the first stage of its relocation to the multi-million pound Marischal Square development in Aberdeen.

Saffery Champness is reminding rural businesses that the VAT payment holiday, which ran from March 21 because of the COVID-19 crisis, ends on June 30. No further extension to the scheme, which has allowed VAT payments to be deferred until March 31, is expected.However, it is expected that there will

Business angel syndicates in Scotland participated in deals which invested over £100 million in young entrepreneurial companies in the financial year to end March 2020.

Jonathan Young, a member of Johnston Carmichael's financial planner support team, discusses why investors shouldn't run from negative returns during the coronavirus outbreak.  Whilst the impact of the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) is still being measured around the world, and in some ways is im

The first major survey of Scottish businesses since the coronavirus outbreak has revealed that 85% of firms expect growth in the Scottish economy to be weak or very weak in the next 12 months, marking an increase of 53% in the previous quarter. 

High street banks have blamed the British Business Bank, the government-owned organisation responsible for implementing the coronavirus loans scheme, for delays preventing small businesses across the UK from accessing desperately needed funds.  The criticism of the bank comes as Chancellor

“Extreme pressure” is being placed on the Scottish construction industry due to the lack of detail for the UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, a building company has warned.

Cash usage in the UK has halved in the last few days after coronavirus social distancing and 'lock down' measures were implemented this week, according to Link, the UK's biggest ATM operator.

TSB has today announced it will ensure that all of its smallest suppliers will be paid within just 10 days of invoicing the bank. The move will apply to all companies that supply goods and services to the bank, even if the contract allows it to pay over a longer period.