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Baillie Gifford, the global investment management partnership, has appointed Ross Mathison as a portfolio manager of its Global Income Growth Fund and Responsible Global Equity Income Fund. Mr Mathison joined existing managers James Dow and Toby Ross on the funds on January 1.

PwC has appointed Martin Cowie as its new senior partner in Aberdeen, replacing Kevin Reynard. Kevin Reynard will retire from his post in June, after 34 years with the firm and seven in his current role.

Car adverts will be required to include a message encouraging viewers to walk or cycle instead of driving under a new French law.

Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), the tech-enabled business-critical services group, has revealed that its 2021 mergers and acquisition activity exceeded its previous records. The successful completion of over 50 transactions, with a combined total deal value in excess of £750m, represents

Scottish shopper footfall dropped by 22.8% in December (Yo2Y), a 3.0 percentage point decrease from November, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Footfall Monitor.

Andrea Coscelli, the chief executive of the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA), has confirmed he will step down from the role at the end of his current term in July 2022. Dr Coscelli joined the CMA as an Executive Director when it was created in 2013 and he has held the position of Chief Execu

Five inspiring women in business have collaborated in a “Vanity Fair” style photoshoot, conceived by two of Scotland’s most popular portrait photographers. Taking place at the A-listed Bannockburn House in Stirlingshire, the five entrepreneurs were invited by David Ho and Sandie Kn

India's tax authority has seized £26 million in banknotes, 23 kilograms of gold and 250 kilograms of silver from the country's biggest-ever tax evader. Businessman Piyush Jain was arrested after officials raided his home, described by local media as a "warehouse of money" with cash "spilling o

Wealth manager James Hambro and Partners (JH&P) has appointed Chris Hardie as a financial planning specialist in its Edinburgh office. Hardie has worked in financial planning for ten years and is a Chartered Financial Planner. He holds the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and is a Fellow o

HMRC is urging businesses to take steps to prepare for Making Tax Digital for Value Added Tax (VAT) before it becomes mandatory for all VAT-registered businesses from 1 April this year. Making Tax Digital is designed to help businesses eliminate common errors and save time managing their tax affairs

The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has committed £20 million of cornerstone funding to Lothian Broadband Group (LBG) to help tackle digital inequality in rural communities and small towns in Scotland. The bank’s funding commitment is in addition to £5m of new investment f

Richard Dunbar, head of multi-asset research at abrdn, discusses the outlook for 2022. Ongoing inflationary shocks, questions around interest rates and the emergence of the new Omicron Covid variant are all making navigating uncertainty more challenging. Nonetheless, when we look beyond the headline

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working to become a more innovative, adaptive and assertive regulator in 2022. The regulator said that this approach will enable the FCA to meet the challenges of the increasingly data-driven financial services sector in the UK, the shift to a net-zero econom

Simon Poole, the co-founder and managing director of North Berwick based Jerba Campervans, is a double winner at the IoD Awards. After being praised for his leadership on customer service and championing high levels of employee wellbeing, Simon Poole was awarded Director of the Year for Small-Medium

A record low number of UK companies are set to have gone into administration in 2021, according to the latest figures published by Interpath Advisory. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm revealed that 618 firms fell into administration in 2021, which in 2020, the final full-year co