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UK traders are increasingly shorting the big four British banking stocks ahead of the Autumn Budget, with short-selling activity surging 69% week-on-week according to new data. The figures are from investing and trading platform IG, with the rises coming amid speculation that Chancellor John Healey

Beeks Financial Cloud Group, the Renfrewshire-based markets technology enabler, has reported a record performance driven by momentum across its product range. The company, which is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market, has also announced positive first quarter momentum.

The Scottish Government is exploring new ways to privately finance major public infrastructure projects, with the Scottish Futures Trust leading work on alternative funding models as pressure on public finances constrains capital spending. The trust is working with the market on a revised approach t

Scottish Building Society has become the first UK lender to go live on a new artificial intelligence platform that lets it run generative AI without customer data leaving its own environment, according to the financial technology provider SBS. The society, a long-standing SBS client, runs the SBS AI

Fidelity Asian Values saw its discount to net asset value (NAV) narrow, but its NAV total return of 6.1% trailed the 9.1% return of its benchmark, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, after missing out on the AI rally in the year to 31 July 2026. The share price total return for the y

JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI) trailed its benchmark for a second successive year, returning 7.2% on net assets against 9.8% for the index in the 12 months to 31 July. Shareholders vote on 23 November on whether the trust should continue, as the company prepares to absorb Aberdeen

Andrew Bailey has warned that British businesses are cutting costs and eating into their profit margins to cover rising energy costs. The Governor of the Bank of England said many businesses were reducing their headcount to avoid passing higher energy costs on to their customers.

Chancellor John Healey is set to increase taxes on Britain’s banks to help plug a hole in the UK Government’s finances caused by rising borrowing costs. Mr Healey is considering options for raising more revenue from Britain’s financial institutions ahead of the Budget on 28 October

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has appointed Angela Banerjee as a tax director specialising in R&D tax relief. She has more than  15 years’ experience across a number of advisory firms as well as expertise in advising innovative businesses on the patent box regime, where p

The UK Government has announced Edinburgh will host the G20's annual finance meeting next summer. Central bank governors and finance meetings will meet at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on July 8 and July 9, as part of a series of events around the G20 Leaders' Summit in Manchester in

Gulf International Bank is set to cut 15 roles across its business after shutting down its loss making fund business. The decision to close its active funds business from the Bahrain-headquartered firm follows a strategic review carried out by the bank earlier in the year.

Premier Miton’s assets under management (AuM) fell from £10.3bn to £8.1bn in the year to 30 September 2026, after net outflows of £428m in its fourth quarter. The AIM-listed group said £102m of the quarterly decline came from investment and market performance, from AuM

Jupiter Fund Management’s assets under management rose 3% to a record £75.9bn in the three months to 30 September 2026, as net inflows of £700m extended its “positive momentum” in client demand from the first half of the year. The third-quarter inflows took year-to-date

Seraphim Space Investment Trust’s net asset value (NAV) per ordinary share more than doubled to 240.49p in the year to 30 June 2026, helping narrow its discount from 27.8% to 21.9%, as defence demand and major funding rounds lifted its portfolio. The gains were heavily concentrated in one comp

Investors are not abandoning sustainability but looking beyond labels to governance, resilience and long-term value, Aberdeen Investments has found in a new report that expects governance to become the dominant ESG differentiator by 2030. The company wrote a report titled 'The Age of Grounded Sustai