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Edinburgh-based payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has partnered with London-based fintech, Trust Payments, to provide an all-in-one payment solution and access to Trust Payments’ suite of "Converged Commerce" offerings to merchants. The offerings include an all-in-one payments platform, aw

The RSM UK Supply Chain Index (SCI) continued to improve in March, but the firm’s preliminary reading for April showed the first signs of supply chain pressure building again, following a strong rebound in the first quarter (Q1). Added to the SCI, a recent survey by RSM of middle market busine

An R&D tax specialist with offices in Salford has expanded to Scotland and strengthened its team with three new hires. Counting King has supported over 150 businesses with R&D tax claims over the last year and by establishing a permanent presence in Scotland is seeking to reach even more bus

Louis Taylor has been appointed CEO of the British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, and will take up the role from 1 October. Mr Taylor is currently CEO of UK Export Finance, the UK government's export credit agency.

Edinburgh-based crypto platform Zumo has received funding from Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency, to conduct further research into practical decarbonisation solutions. Under the RenewableCrypto project, Zumo will now work with its partner, Zero Labs, to conduct further research into p

Plans for an innovative £20 million facility in West Dunbartonshire to turn waste plastic into hydrogen, which will be the first of its kind in Scotland, have been approved.

Scotland’s first whisky focused non-fungible token (NFT) start-up has celebrated a move into consultancy services, made possible by support from Business Gateway. The technology of NFTs has been most commonly associated with sales of art, but the possible applications of the technology are far

House prices in Scotland are expected to rise amid a fall in buyer demand, according to the latest Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Bank of Scotland funds Scottish dental business, Campbell & Gibson Dental and Implant Practice, to acquired its third practice in East Lothian.

No available new office space is currently under construction in Edinburgh despite a strong rise in demand from occupiers as they return to the workplace, threatening the city's economic growth, Knight Frank has said. The independent commercial property consultancy said there is now new build office

Aberdeen's housing market is "firmly on the up" after a year of solid price and demand growth, according to a solicitor estate agent. New data in Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre’s (ASPC) most recent quarterly report has highlighted a 1.4% rise in housing prices in Aberdeen.

Rural businesses in the Highlands and Islands are doing more to invest in new technologies and move towards low carbon ways of working than those in the rest of Scotland, according to a new report. However, the latest Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) business panel survey also notes that the r

Deutsche Bank has encountered an unexpected challenge in its bid to relocate hundreds of workers from Russia to Germany – transporting their pets. Staff at the German bank's technology centres in Moscow and St Petersburg were given the opportunity to relocate to Berlin following the outbreak o

The Scottish government contract managed by the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has just been announced and awarded to two Scottish businesses, Dunedin Advisory Ltd and Wylie & Bisset. In the case of Wylie & Bisset, the contract has been awarded for an unprecedented fourth time in succession.

In collaboration with FinTech Scotland, TSB is launching an innovation lab “TSB Labs” in Edinburgh, inviting fintech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to work together and address relevant customer challenges.