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A Glasgow spin-out which is pioneering a new test to detect brain cancer and other forms of cancer has secured a £1.2m investment in a syndicated round including Mercia Fund Managers, the Scottish Investment Bank’s Co-Investment Fund and EOS Technology Partners which led the transaction.

Construction work has started on the £40 million leisure development at St Enoch Centre in Glasgow. Set to add 30,000 sq ft to the centre, bringing the overall space to 880,000 sq ft, the revamp will introduce a nine-screen Vue cinema, nine restaurants as well as new retail and

Law firm TLT, with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has announced a new partnership with asset management and fact-finding experts to provide a resolution for interest-only mortgage product lenders. The new partnership, with Spicerhaart Corporate Sales and Excel, is aimed at ass

Kate Forbes, Minister for Public Finance and Digital Economy has visited the Edinburgh headquarters of Scottish finTech firm Origo, the company responsible for a number of critical tech-based services for the financial services sector. Ms Forbes met with Origo managing director Anthony Raf

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is taking action to help the estimated 80,000 low income households in Scotland who could be paying too much Council Tax. The charity has today launched a new online tool to help people check if they are entitled to reductions, deductions or exemptions.

Latest figures from the Gambling Commission have revealed that over-55s are now the fastest growing group of online gamblers.

Mike McKeon CA has been appointed as the new president of ICAS. Mike, who is a non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee at National Express, was confirmed as President for 2019 at the ICAS Annual General Meeting on Friday.

Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its corporate finance offering across the north of Scotland with a senior strategic hire. Eliza Bellamy, who brings 15 years’ M&A experience, has joined Johnston Carmichael as a director in the firm’s Aberdeen office.

After years of bank branch and cashpoint closures, Scottish trust in day-to-day banking services is lower than anywhere else in the UK, according to Which?’s annual Scottish Consumer Insight Report. The consumer champion’s in-depth analysis for 2018 unpicks the trends and financial outlo

The contribution of the Scotch Whisky industry to the UK economy has grown by 10 per cent since 2016 to £5.5bn.

Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based adviser built wrap platform, has revamped its advisory board as it continues its strategic engagement with the adviser community and looks to put advisers at the heart of its approach to corporate governance. Since the company was founded by seven advisory businesses in

Twenty-eight business leaders from 23 of Scotland’s most promising, pioneering and accomplished businesses, have been announced today as the finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards - Scotland. For the first time, the awards dinner will take place in Dundee in June. The City of Dis

Edinburgh-based wealth manager, Brooks Macdonald, has launched an innovative Decumulation Service to meet the evolving needs of the ‘at retirement’ market and beyond. Since pension freedoms began in 2015, over 1.8 millioni people have accessed their defined contribution pension pot and t

Edinburgh property group Sigma has launched a new Scottish Government-backed fund to invest in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Sigma Scottish PRS Fund will have initial resources of £43 million, with £30m provided by the Scottish Government’s Building Sco

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress in the country in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the latest data from insolvency s