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Jim Galbraith Scottish Friendly, Scotland’s largest financial mutual, has today announced it achieved record-breaking sales in 2016. The financial services group reported a substantial 33% rise from the £25.5 million it posted in 2015 to £33.9m in 2016. This increase was powered mainly by improv

The importance of securing free access to European markets has been revealed in new research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), published today.

The number of people accessing Scottish statutory debt solutions has remained steady in the third quarter of 2016-17, according to latest figures from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB).

The board of Dundee-based Alliance Trust has told activist investor Elliott Advisors that it would be prepared to buy back some of its shares.

Mark Gallacher, Partner, EQ presenting cheque to Anne Ronaldson from Age Concern Cupar, with John Morrow from Cupar Rotary to his left. Staff at a Fife accountancy firm have presented Age Concern Cupar with a cheque for just over £200, following a community sleigh run organised by the local Cupar R

Deborah Gilshan Edinburgh-based global investment manager Standard Life Investments has strengthened its ESG Investment Team with the appointment of Deborah Gilshan as Governance & Stewardship Director.

The increasingly controversial plan to sell off the UK government’s Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank (GIB) to an Australian investor could be shelved in favour of a £3.8 billion stock market flotation.

A sustained three-day-long cyber attack designed to overwhelm the systems and disrupt the digital services of Lloyds Banking Group has been defeated by the lender’s cyber defences.

FRP Advisory partners Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan have been appointed joint administrators at Inverness-based self-build home business, Roy Homes Ltd, and its sister company, Roy Homes Timber Frame Ltd.

Tim Cooper Scotland’s hospitality sector has had a strong start to the year, with its restaurants and pubs less at risk of insolvency than the UK average, according to research by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Maggie's Centre Aberdeen Aberdeen Asset Management has provided a Granite City cancer support centre with a four figure sum at a time when an increasing number of people whose lives are affected by cancer are turning to it for help and support.

Atlas, Centralpoint. Buccleuch Property has sold a 56,508 sq. ft production and warehouse facility at Atlas, Centralpoint near Glasgow, for £4.575 million.

Brexit preparations, macroeconomic uncertainty and cyber-security threats are 2017’s top-three concerns for UK asset managers, according to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey.

The number of cases of alleged fraud reaching Scottish courts in 2016 fell from 12 to 9, but the value of loss was more than five times greater than in 2015, rising from £4.7 million to £24.3 million, driven by a large (£18 million) case of investment fraud, according to new research from KPMG.

Annabel Brodie-Smith With the FTSE 100 reaching record highs in January, research published today by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) using data provided by Winterflood Investment Trusts shows that a significant proportion of the investment company sector reached share price highs this