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This week marks two years since the introduction of some of the most radical reforms to UK pensions in a generation and new research has revealed that while the size of the average pension pot has ballooned from £29,000 to 50,000 over the last 24 months, men are far more likely to have boosted sav

Craig Loney Inverurie-based Advanced Financial Planning has continued to stengthen its Wealth Management Service by welcoming on board Craig Loney as Financial Adviser.

The number of workers in Scotland employed in the low carbon and ‎renewables sector has risen to 58,500 in 2015 - up from an indicative 43,500 employed in 2014.

Tim Hargreaves The number of Scottish filings made to the European Patent Office (EPO) remained steady in 2016 , which specialist Scottish law firm Marks & Clerk says demonstrates the country’s resilience in a period of economic uncertainty.

The average UK small business has seen its basic costs soar by 3.2 per cent in the last year, according to Barclays’ Small Business Cost Index (SBCI), which has revealed the impact of rising inflation on UK SME businesses.

Ed Molyneux FreeAgent, the Edinburgh-based provider of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) accounting software solutions, has reported revenue of £8 million for the year ending March 2017.

Barack Obama President Barack Obama is to address philanthropy and business leaders at a dinner in Edinburgh on 26th May at the EICC.

Bertie Hunt (Chair, Y People), Derek May (CEO, Brightwork) and Joe Connolly (CEO, Y People) One of Glasgow’s oldest charities has continued a period of development and growth with the addition of accountant and CEO of Scotland-wide recruitment business, Brightwork, Derek May, to its board.

Debbie Crosbie CYBG, the owner of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank has announced plans to open a lab in one of London’s wealthiest districts to allow customers to have a direct input in the future products it offers and technologies it develops.

Lloyds Bank has announced that 24 branches of the Bank of Scotland are among 100 locations that it plans to close between July and October this year.

From today employers in Scotland with a wage bill of more than £3 million will start to pay the UK Government’s new Apprenticeship Levy.

Steve Davies A new PwC report has revealed that 61 per cent of UK financial services industry leaders believe they could lose as much as 40 per cent of their revenue to standalone FinTech firms, compared to 51 per cent of financial services leaders globally.

Chas Roy-Chowdhury As Scotland embarks upon a new era of devolved tax powers, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has warned that maintaining simplicity must be the main priority for Holyrood.

Claire Middlebrook Business recovery specialist Claire Middlebrook has been installed as provisional liquidator at Fithandel in Bridge of Don.

Emma Boffey A ruling made last month by the Court of Session shows that betting does not always pay, even when the outcome you wagered on is realised, writes Emma Boffey of CMS