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The Highlands and Moray are home to a high potential group of 51 SMEs generating revenues of between £3m and £150m, according to new research from the Business Growth Fund (BGF). More than three-quarters of these businesses (76 percent) have grown their combined turnover over the last th

New research has revealed that 10 per cent of people aged 50 and over with pension plans, believe they have been approached by pension scammers trying to access their savings.

Catherine Marnoch, finance manager with Kingdom Housing Association, who started with the association in September 1985, has decided to retire after over 33 years of service. When Catherine started with Kingdom, the association did not have any homes in management and she has witnessed its grow

As the final members of the Baby Boomer generation reach the age they can access their pension, analysis by Aegon, the Edinburgh-based pensions and investment company, reveals Argyll & Bute as the location with the highest proportion of Baby Boomers in Scotland.

Calls for the establishing of a shareholder committee on the board of Royal Bank of Scotland have again emerged amid a fresh rebellion from investors, this time against pay policies which will see chief executive Ross McEwan pocket some £350,000 in pension contributions. Ahead of still 62

Five people have been arrested and charged as part of an ongoing joint investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Police Scotland into alleged money laundering and VAT fraud worth £12 million.

American venture capitalist Tom Crotty has joined the board of directors at Aberdeen FC, bringing with him a £1.3 million investment in the club. Mr Crotty has spent more than 30 years brokering deals for communications and software firms and helped found the charity Grassroot Soccer with Tomm

Scottish business confidence fell to a new low in the first three months of the year, according to new data compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses.  In the first quarter of 2019, FSB’s Scottish Small Business Index (SBI) fell 1.8 points to -34.5.

A brand new regulatory anti-money laundering (AML) sub-committee is being set up to ensure that the Law Society of Scotland can meet its increasing statutory obligations as a responsible and effective AML regulator.

Over 40 per cent of Scotland’s tech start-ups and scale-ups are targeting the US market for growth but have found access to finance the biggest barrier to their ambitious plans. That’s one of the key findings from a new survey of 100 data-driven tech start-ups and scale-ups, undertaken a

Housing provider Link Group’s development in Dunbeg, near Oban has benefited from £8 million of funding delivered by Allia Impact Finance through a Scottish Charitable Bond.

Scotland’s residential market remains less affected by the political uncertainty impacting housing markets in London and the south, according to Savills latest analysis launched at their Scottish Property Outlook Conference held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre yesterday. An au

The delivery of public sector services in four Highland locations is to undergo a dramatic transformation thanks to a project that will bring new full fibre infrastructure – the fastest, most reliable digital connectivity – to the region.

Scotland’s latest energy statistics, published today by the Scottish Government, have revealed a surge in electricity exports to the rest of the UK. In 2018, electricity exports from Scotland almost doubled from 12,868 GWh in 2017 to 24,379 GWh in 2018.Scotland continues to lead the UK in rene

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and its subsidiary NatWest have stopped automatically replacing their customers' cheque books when they run out, becoming the first major banks in the UK to do so.