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Edinburgh-headquartered global travel technology firm Criton has today announced it aims to raise a significant "seven-figure sum" in external investment later this year. The firm is targeting investment to develop its product offering and drive growth across international markets.

Hampden & Co has strengthened its banking team in Scotland with the appointments of Clare Ansell and Ian Gibson as banking directors. Both Ms Ansell and Mr Gibson join from Handelsbanken. Clare Ansell spent over a decade with Royal Bank of Scotland followed by four years with Handelsbanken based

Colin Peter Dempster and Robert Hunter Kelly of EY have been appointed as joint administrators of the Livingston-based packaging company API Foils. The packaging factory, which makes foils and laminates, closed its doors on Friday with the loss of 107 jobs at the Livingston site.

Baillie Gifford has become the headline sponsor of Edinburgh Science Learning, the education arm of educational charity Edinburgh Science who also produces the world’s first and Europe’s biggest science festival.

Fife-based AC Architects is using virtual reality (VR) technology to produce an immerse experience for its clients and give them an insight into how their new home will look.

UK private equity (PE) deal volumes fell to their lowest levels in five years as economic and geopolitical uncertainty gripped the market, according to new research from KPMG. KPMG’s latest study of UK transactions involving private equity investors indicates that a total of 978 deals complete

William (Bill) Mann CBE, an accountant, businessman and philanthropist, has died at age 85. Mr Mann dedicated most of his life to good causes, these included charities and the arts, and in particular the sports sector, where he ran a successful campaign to abolish rates on sport facilities.

UK construction firms have reported a boost from receding political uncertainty with business optimism rebounded to its highest since April 2018.

A tranche of coins dating back to the Iron Age worth around £10 million has been officially recognised as the largest of its kind to be found in the British Isles. The coins were discovered in Jersey in 2012 by metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles after the two embarked on a sear

Law firm Aberdein Considine has appointed Natalie Mortimer as head of compliance and Thomas Lilie as head of legal for the Lender Services Practice Group. Ms Mortimer has moved to Aberdein Considine from Virgin Money where she was head of risk, compliance and quality. She brings over 15 years’

A mass exodus of Cash ISA investors submitting transfer out requests from their Cash ISAs is causing a backlog with the big bank lenders, according to new data from Sourced Capital.

Ikea has announced that it will be closing its Coventry city centre store in the furniture store's first big UK closure.

MSPs have rejected the proposed changes to the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill which suggested giving local authorities the power to set business rates.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today announced a major shakeup of its oversight and supervisory functions to speed up the pace of enforcement investigations. The regulator is also broadening its stated purpose which is to serve the public interest by setting high standards of corporate go

Just seven weeks after launching its first equity crowdfunding campaign, drinks-on-demand tech platform Drinkly has reached its funding target of £250,000. The company, based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, will use the funding to accelerate its growth to become the UK's number one on-demand