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Kirsty Yuill has been appointed as senior manager of Johnston Carmichael's Dundee team. Due to join the company's recently opened Dundee office, Ms Yuill has over 12 years of experience and moves to Johnston Carmichael from Mazars LLP, where she managed a team of 10 and provided business suppor

KPMG has hired 80 new recruits to join the company's Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen offices in 2019. The company has hired an extensive number of talented young people with specialisms in audit, tax, consulting, and new digital tech-focused roles.

A survey by the Emerging Payments Association (EPA) has revealed that over three-quarters of women in payments believe gender discrimination remains unacceptably high in the industry.

Citi has promoted Anne-Maree Tassell as the new head of operations and technology for EMEA. 

HSBC has provided Highland Spring Group with £55.5 million to help its operational and environmental strategies prosper. The funding includes asset-based lending and debt refinance.

An audit, tax and consulting firm has joined the call for the UK Government to delay its proposed implementation of the VAT Domestic Reverse Charge due to the apparent lack of preparedness from within the industry. The VAT anti-evasion, which will target specific supplies within the construction sec

Plans to deliver “world-class” office space for up to 3,000 employees in Glasgow’s International Financial Services District (IFSD) has been granted full planning approval by Glasgow City Council.

Business confidence in Scotland decreased by nine points within a month to minus 9%, the Bank of Scotland Business Barometer has indicated.

A YouGov and Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) poll has indicated that consumer confidence has hit a five-year low due to fears of a recession by the end of the year.

HSBC has provided a seven-figure funding package to Kilmarnock FC owner Billy Bowie to help achieve his goals to grow his Park Hotel and Special Projects business ventures. The funding will help Mr Bowie create 20 new jobs at the four-star Park Hotel at Kilmarnock’s Rugby Park. Employees will

As half-year export figures show growth, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has called on the UK Government to ensure certainty in future trading conditions.

India's ICICI bank has claimed to be the first bank in the country to implement industrial robots to count cash. The robotic arms are used to collect processed cash from the bank's branches and then sort them so they are ready to be resent back to the branches.

A group of MPs have called for new legislation to stop banks abandoning Scottish towns.

Alasdair Gill has been appointed as the new head of XPS Pensions Group's Scotland investment team to help grow its proposition. Alasdair joined the XPS team having previously spent 22 years with Mercer, where he accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in the North of England and Scotla

David Harvey has joined the Allied Surveyors Scotland team as a senior commercial valuer at the firm's Edinburgh office. David’s appointment comes quickly after the announcement in June, that the former Scotland rugby internationalist Gavin Kerr had been recruited by Allied as a senior buildin