Search:

Bruce Stevenson, Scotland’s largest independent insurance broker, has welcomed record results as the company reported revenue of £7.6 million for the year to 31st August 2019. Bruce Stevenson, which is a chartered broker and a founding member of the industry UNA Alliance, now has 100 peo

The Scottish Government has announced that its budget will be published on 6 February 2020. The announcement comes after the UK Government confirmed that its budget would be delayed until 11 March 2020.

BGF experienced a year of growth across its Scottish portfolio in 2019, having invested more than £280 million to date to support the region’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. BGF is the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses which provides patient capital to smal

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed Aileen Mathieson as its new global head of insurance following the retirement of Stephen Acheson. In leading the Global Insurance team, Ms Mathieson will take responsibility for ASI’s global insurance remit in addition to her previous responsib

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has revealed that a total of 4,659 students completed their final exams to become ACCA affiliates during the last sitting of 2019. A total of 137,000 around the world entered over 173,000 exams.

MHA Henderson Loggie has appointed Christine Rolland as director of its market-leading forensics business in Scotland. Set to be based in the firm’s Glasgow office, Ms Rolland's appointment marks a milestone in the expansion of the highly specialised business.

Paul Rippon, the co-founder and deputy CEO of Monzo, is stepping down from his role to farm alpacas with his wife in Northumberland.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed it will need at least another six months to investigate KPMG’s auditing of collapsed construction and services firm Carillion due to the scale and complexity of the case.

Martin Johnston has joined Armstrong Watson LLP, Accountants, Business and Financial Advisers’ Glasgow team as audit and assurance director. Mr Johnston was latterly a senior manager at KPMG, having previously worked for both EY and PKF (now part of BDO) earlier in his career. He has extensive

The Women in Business Growth Programme launched by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is set to be rolled out in 2020 following a successful double run in 2019. The year 2019 saw 22 female entrepreneurs, with an estimated collective turnover of over £5 million, successfully complete the course, cr

You & Mr Jones, the global brandtech group founded by former Havas chief executive David Jones, has invested in Edinburgh-based ethical video startup Good-Loop. Having successfully closed a US $1.4m seed funding round, Good-Loop will invest the funds in growing its commercial team in Europe and

Ultimate Finance, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has provided more than £1.6 billion of funding to SMEs across the UK in 2019.

Edinburgh-based IndigoVision has seen a 9% rise in sales reaching $50.1 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2019. IndigoVision is a leader in the design and supply of high performance, highly-intelligent video security systems for security installations of differing sizes and complexity

William Walker Transport, an Aberdeen-based haulage supplier, is expanding its services to the North of England following £600,000 of funding from HSBC UK.

MHA Henderson Loggie has been appointed liquidator of GSASA Limited, the bar and music venue which trades commercially as 'The Art School'. GSASA Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the independent charitable Glasgow School of Art Student’s Association, which is unaffected by today’s ann