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Billionaire whisky tycoons Glenn Gordon and family have been named Scotland’s richest family for the sixth year in a row. Rising profits for the family business William Grant & Sons, which is behind the famous Glenfiddich and Hendrick’s Gin brands, has seen its owners maintain their

Scottish Enterprise and Project Heather have reached agreement on a £750,000 Regional Selective Assistance grant to support the investment in additional talent to support the creation of a stock exchange in Scotland. The grant provides for up to 45 high-skilled jobs in Edinburgh, where the exc

Cloud experts Renovite Technologies, whose European headquarters are in Dunfermline, has strengthened its position in the electronic payments market through the appointment of two senior product managers. The appointment of Anton Godfrey and David Lock adds over 60-years’ specialist payments e

Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has recruited managing associate, Natasha Brownlee, to join its banking and financial services team in its Edinburgh office. Ms Brownlee joins from Sainsbury's Bank and Argos Financial Services Group where she provided targeted, commercially legal advic

Paisley-based fintech firm Beeks has announced the acquisition of Commercial Network Services (CNS), a VPS provider based in California. CNS supplies virtual servers for Forex, Stock, Commodities, Equities and Derivatives traders and brokers, with its own data centre space in London, New York and Lo

A group of Scottish-based female business founders are celebrating after winning top honours at this year AccelerateHER Awards. Rachel Jones of SnapDragon; Lina Gasiunaite of Biotangents; and Corien Staels of Staels Design were winners of the 2019 awards which recognise female business founders in

Data published by HMRC has revealed the hotspots for R&D tax relief claims across Scotland. Businesses based in the City of Edinburgh topped the league for the number of claims for R&D tax credits in 2016-17 at 425 claims, followed by Glasgow City on 335 and Aberdeen City on 250.

Permanent staff appointments in Scotland expanded at the fastest rate in the year-to-date during April, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

A survey of 11,000 people in 11 countries around the world by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has revealed their expectation that auditors should evolve to prevent company failures.

A blunder by HMRC bosses left almost a third of MSPs without status as Scottish taxpayers, it has emerged.  Jim Harra, the deputy chief executive of HMRC, said 45 of Holyrood’s 129 members had been issued with an incorrect code for 2019-20.

Manolete Partners, the UK-wide insolvency litigation financing company, has announced the appointment of Rachel Grant to lead its Scottish practice. Ms Grant's appointment is the latest development in Manolete’s rapid regional expansion strategy and further enhances its status as the UK&r

Independent restructuring and advisory firm FRP Advisory has announced the promotion of Callum Carmichael to partner. Based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, Mr Carmichael has over 20 years of corporate restructuring and recovery experience across a wide range of industry sectors. He j

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is opposing a major shake-up of the operations of the so-called ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms, has been the recipient of more than £50 million in fines levied on those firms as a result of their botched audit

Clydesdale Bank is to close its branches in Arbroath, Glasgow Shettleston, Largs, Brora and St Andrew’s as part of its latest cost-saving cuts.

In the first three months of the year saw the number of decrees against Scottish businesses drop by 25 per cent, compared to the same period of 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust. The total of 561 was the lowest of any quarter on record.