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Edinburgh-based venture capital firm Par Equity has led investments totalling £3.2 million in two Northern Ireland software companies, Plotbox and Datactics. The technology firms are the latest to benefit from investment led by Par Equity, which has invested more than £118 million in ove

Commercial real estate specialist Topland Group has acquired The Rutland Buildings in Edinburgh in an off-market transaction for nearly £16 million.

Glasgow-based investment house Maven Capital Partners has led an investment, alongside existing shareholders Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank, in Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software Limited, the identity and access management firm. The funding will be used to further scale the busines

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched three equity and five fixed income index tracker funds on Standard Life’s Wrap and Elevate platforms. Investing in passive funds has grown in popularity as a low-cost, diverse and reliable means of mirroring the performance of a specific index.

Aggressive accounting policies and a close relationship with KPMG was the cause of the collapse of Carillion, according to a new construction industry survey.

Scottish Edge has announced its first dual city final, taking the UK’s largest funding competition to Glasgow for the first time since its inception in 2013. University of Strathclyde’s state-of-the-art Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) will play host to day one of the two-day Scott

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured the disqualification of three former directors of office fit-out companies for their involvement in illegal cartel behaviour.

Law firms have seen improved profit per equity partner as they prioritise profits over fee income growth, according to a new report. The latest annual Legal Benchmarking Report from MHA Henderson Loggie in conjunction with their UK accountancy association MHA, reveals that t

Nationwide has announced that it will invest in Scaled Insights, a company that uses behavioural AI to analyse people’s speech in order to communicate with them in language that is most accessible for them. The system analyses over 130 different variables in an individual’s speech p

Major funeral firm Dignity has warned that its profits are likely to decline this year because fewer people in Britain have died than they expected.

Iain Masterton, VAT director at accountants Chiene + Tait (C+T), has been appointed to AGN International’s EMEA Taxation Task Force. The body monitors tax developments, coordinating resources and information to benefit the clients of AGN member firms across the world.

A second internal candidate has emerged as one of the front-runners set to be appointed as still-more-than-60-per-cent state-owned lender Royal Bank Scotland's next chief executive. Outgoing boss Ross McEwan revealed weeks ago that he is to step down from the Edinburgh-based bank after fiv

New research has revealed that the fallout from England and Wales’ vote to leave the European Union has resulted in thousands of millionaires quitting the UK over the course of the past two years.

Independent Glasgow brewery, WEST, has become the first brewery in the UK to be employee owned. The Glaswegian brewery has launched over 30 draught beers in the last 13 years – all brewed in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German Purity Law, the oldest food law in existence,

Metro Bank has been forced to reassure customers their money is safe, acting quickly to quash what it described as false rumours on social media about its financial health. It said plans to raise £350m from investors to shore up its finances were “well advanced”. The bank, whi