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Glasgow-based charted accountants Wylie & Bisset have announced the promotion of Catherine Livingstone to director with responsibility for supporting its client base of owner-managed businesses. Ms Livingstone, who first joined the firm as a trainee CA in 2004, has helped build an extensive clie

Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG have been appointed as joint administrators of Spark Energy Supply, the energy supply subsidiary of Spark Energy. Ovo Energy has separately acquired Spark Energy and intends to retain its brand as well as its operations and teams in Selkirk, Edinburgh and H

Cairngorm Mountain Limited, the company that operates the Cairngorm Mountain Funicular Railway and associated visitor attractions, has been placed in administration, with Campbell Dallas partners Blair Milne and Derek Forsyth appointed as joint administrators. The pair said they willl continue

Ivan McKee, Scotland’s minister for trade, investment and innovation, visited the Edinburgh headquarters of Scottish fintech firm Origo this week. Mr McKee was given a demonstration of the firm’s solution for the UK Pensions Dashboard, which will find and display an individual’s pe

Royal Bank of Scotland has opened a data innovation research unit at the University of Edinburgh, where it will join other industries, academics, and public sector partners in the heart of Edinburgh’s data science community. RBS has leased space at the Bayes Centre,&nb

The Scottish Government will face an "unaffordable" £1 billion black hole over the next four years if it decides to match the UK government's tax cut for higher earners in its own budget, a think tank has warned. The Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland (IPPR Scotland) has set out its

Scottish businesses owners remain "hostile to the idea of Brexit", accountants and financial advisers French Duncan have said after a new survey showed two thirds of Scottish businesses don't believe they will benefit from Brexit. Just over eight per cent of businesses said they thought their busine

More than 70 actions are to be delivered through a strategy approved by Glasgow councillors which includes a proposed new partnership to deliver investment in digital infrastructure and 5G mobile technology throughout the city.

Scottish Enterprise will lead work to transform the future of the Michelin Dundee site under a new plan agreed by the Scottish Government, working group partners and Michelin management. A declaration to be signed by the end of the year will see the Scottish Government and Michelin work in partnersh

A modest Glasgow flat struggled to find a buyer after property website Rightmove accidentally listed it with a price tag of nearly £8 million.

Investment firm Brewin Dolphin said it had enjoyed a “strong” year in Scotland as it reported annual results showing profits across its business have risen by almost a fifth. The FTSE 250 company grew statutory pre-tax profits to £68.5 million in the 12 months to 30 September,

Scotland’s three largest councils could collectively save over £1 billion by re-financing controversial high interest ‘Lobo’ loans, after one high street bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, indicated it is “open to discussions” about loan re-financing after agreeing to

Firms with fewer than 50 employees sustain up to seven in ten private sector jobs in parts of Scotland, according to figures compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) ahead Small Business Saturday this weekend.

Bruce Wood of Morton Fraser assess the implications for Scotland of the reinstatement of the "Crown Preference" in all insolvency processes  

Edinburgh-based global asset manager Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has released its first major study from the Aberdeen Standard Investments Research Institute. The research, entitled Social Capitalism: Taking a wider view of national progress, presents a new way of compari