News

Fife Council has secured over £3.1 million from the Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance PLC to restore the former Blair House opencast coal site near Oakley, having settled its lengthy legal battle in the Court of Session with the company, out of court.

David Milroy Glasgow-based investment house Maven Capital Partners has exited its investment in Crawford Scientific, a leading supplier of chromatography products and analytical services to the laboratory research and testing sectors, following its sale to Limerston.

The office manager of a Stirling business has admitted to paying herself £30,000 of unauthorised overtime over the course of a six year period.

A CGI of the new office development at New Waverley The office component of Edinburgh’s New Waverley development has been sold by Artisan Real Estate Investors to Legal & General.

Liz Cameron

Euan Stirling Standard Life Investments has today launched its first impact product, the Global Equity Impact Fund, co-managed by Sarah Norris and Dominic Byrne.

Fraser Nicol Following a cyber-attack, SMEs will invest in taking practical steps to protect themselves, but according to a survey undertaken by Scottish business advisers and accountants Scott-Moncrieff, only 26 per cent report the matter to the police, and just 23 per cent contacted their insurer.

Andrew Bailey The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has succumbed to mounting political pressure and agreed to Treasury Committee’s demands for the appointment of a legal adviser to study the watchdog's report into misconduct at 73 per cent state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland’s now notorious GRG

Sara Wilson New research by Alliance Trust Savings finds almost half (45 per cent) of middle-aged people who currently have an above average income would run out of money within six months of losing their main income. This rises to two thirds (67 per cent) of those with £499 or less available to sp

Annette Weinel, Activpayroll regional director – Germany and Euan Sellar, global operations director. Activpayroll, the global payroll and tax compliance specialist headquartered in Aberdeen, has announced the opening of a Frankfurt office.

Tom MacLennan Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser of FRP Advisory, joint administrators of collapsed Pagan Osborne, have secured approval from the former Scottish law firm’s creditors to sell off the firm’s assets.

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh is a Senior Money Adviser at Inverclyde Council. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

Liz Cameron The UK's key inflation rate hit its highest for more than five years last month, driven up by increases in transport and food prices.

Tim Cooper Three-in-10 Scottish adults (29 per cent) think their financial situation will improve over the next six months, slightly higher than the figure for all British adults of 22 per cent.

George Kerevan The SNP’s Growth Commission is going to propose the creation of a Scottish pound, according to a former member of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee.