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An extended online portal that helps small to medium enterprises in the Highlands and Islands find new business opportunities from large contracts will be launched this week. The Open4Business (O4B) portal was originally set up in 2012 by SSE to link supply chain firms with large SSE const

The Law Society of Scotland, The Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) and Co-operative Development Scotland are joining forces to promote employee ownership amongst Scotland’s professional advisers. The partners are coming together to host a unique series of events on employee ow

Manchester is to be the location for the global launch of finger vein payments system, Fingopay. The fintech firm uses finger vein ID technology for payments and ID, and bosses says it will hit the streets of Manchester this Summer, following current negotiations with leisure and hospitality ve

Glasgow-headquartered chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset has today opened an office in the heart of Manchester’s financial district as it gears up to target growth across the north of England. Located at 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, the new office is headed by Wylie & Bisset joi

Thorntons and Blackadders have acquired certain assets and work-in-progress of the firm's Edinburgh and Glasgow offices respectively, following the appointment of Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser, partners with FRP Advisory LLP, as joint administrators of the firm. Morison

Accountants and business & financial advisers Armstrong Watson LLP have announced that Karen Thomson, director of group payroll services, has been promoted to the role of partner and becomes only the second known payroll partner of an accountancy firm in the whole of the UK. Ms Thomson has

Edinburgh-based accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has significantly expanded its Inverness operation just two years after opening its first office in the city. The firm has moved into a larger 1200 square foot office space at Fairways House in the city’s Fairways Business Park.

Analysis of the UK office investment volumes show that £1.3 billion has been invested so far this year (to mid-March 2019) but investment performance has varied across regional markets, says agents Savills, with specific office markets showing significant under/over performance depending

The Highlands and Moray are home to a high potential group of 51 SMEs generating revenues of between £3m and £150m, according to new research from the Business Growth Fund (BGF). More than three-quarters of these businesses (76 percent) have grown their combined turnover over the last th

New research has revealed that 10 per cent of people aged 50 and over with pension plans, believe they have been approached by pension scammers trying to access their savings.

Catherine Marnoch, finance manager with Kingdom Housing Association, who started with the association in September 1985, has decided to retire after over 33 years of service. When Catherine started with Kingdom, the association did not have any homes in management and she has witnessed its grow

As the final members of the Baby Boomer generation reach the age they can access their pension, analysis by Aegon, the Edinburgh-based pensions and investment company, reveals Argyll & Bute as the location with the highest proportion of Baby Boomers in Scotland.

Calls for the establishing of a shareholder committee on the board of Royal Bank of Scotland have again emerged amid a fresh rebellion from investors, this time against pay policies which will see chief executive Ross McEwan pocket some £350,000 in pension contributions. Ahead of still 62

Five people have been arrested and charged as part of an ongoing joint investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Police Scotland into alleged money laundering and VAT fraud worth £12 million.

American venture capitalist Tom Crotty has joined the board of directors at Aberdeen FC, bringing with him a £1.3 million investment in the club. Mr Crotty has spent more than 30 years brokering deals for communications and software firms and helped found the charity Grassroot Soccer with Tomm