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Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its financial services advisory team with the appointment of a key strategic hire. Ewen Fleming joins the Chartered Accountants and business advisers as partner following a long and successful career in financial services covering retail banking, wealth

Edinburgh-based Standard Life has gained approval to transfer almost €19 billion of assets to Dublin in anticipation of possible disruption of services after Brexit. The company has received the final permission it needed from the Court of Session in Scotland to go ahead with the move.

Scottish accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB), has secured a significant seven figure equity investment for Project Heather to support the re-launch of the Scottish Stock Exchange after almost fifty years. AAB’s Douglas Martin, Tomas Carruthers and Edwin Hamilton of Project

The finance director of Glasgow-based temporary power generator supply giant Aggreko has been paid more than its chief executive. The contents of the annual report for the largest supplier of temporary power generators in the world show that Heath Drewett received a remuneration package worth almost

R&D tax incentive specialist and innovation consultant, ABGI Group, has launched its UK division, which is to be based in Edinburgh. Operating under the name of ABGI-UK, the firm will focus on companies with 500+ employees.

After a tumultuous week in politics, a new weekly index run by accountancy firm RSM tracking the impact of Brexit has revealed an almost 30 per cent rise in overall stress levels in the UK economy over just one week.

Two previous Scottish EDGE winners, Beauty Kitchen and Premiership Experience, have taken an equal share of a £200,000 prize fund as victors of the inaugural Winners EDGE (WEDGE), EDGE’s new follow-on funding competition supported by Scottish Enterprise. The competition, which is exclusi

A senior insolvency services supervisor at Aberdeen-based chartered accountancy firm Meston Reid & Co has passed two sets of rigorous exams to become a qualified insolvency practitioner and one of only two Scottish-based candidates to pass both JIEB exams in the 2018 sitting. Recently

Deloitte has been named winners in the Best Large Private Sector Employer (250+ employees) at the Scottish Top Employers for Working Families Awards run by Family Friendly Working Scotland, which took place in Glasgow last week.

A man accused of "butchering" a tree near his property in order to increase his home's value has been ordered to pay £21,000 under proceeds of crime legislation.

The result of a recent high profile tax case has opened up the opportunity for farmers to save significant amounts of money by being able to now claim tax relief on specialist buildings and structures, according to Andy Ritchie, head of rural at accountants Campbell Dallas. The case was based on tax

A University of Aberdeen law graduate has become a qualified insolvency practitioner after passing two sets of rigorous exams.

A bid to establish a Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence (GOFCOE) in Edinburgh has reached a major funding milestone. Assessors from the Strength in Places Fund have given "very good feedback" to the Scottish consortium behind the bid, and the application has now moved to the second stage.

An Edinburgh-based anti-piracy equipment developer has seen growth of 300 per cent year-on-year since its foundation in 2016. ARX Maritime, an award-winning developer of self-install anti-piracy barriers and current cohort of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Entrepreneur Accelerator programme, now sup

Scottish commercial property attracted more investment from private overseas investors than France, Japan and South Korea in 2018, according to the latest edition of Knight Frank’s Wealth Report. The firm’s analysis found that total investment from internationally-based ultra-high-net-wo