Shettleston Housing Association has welcomed a £45 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to refinance existing loans and enable completion of its new build development programme within the area. Providing quality affordable homes and services for the communities of Shettleston, G
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Edinburgh-based cryptocurrency startup Zumo has welcomed more than 10,000 new UK users to its app in December following a drive to reach new users. The success of the campaign, which included a referral incentive scheme, bears witness to growing interest in cryptocurrencies as a more secure and smar
Significant parts of the Scottish economy face worsening conditions due to the pandemic before restrictions are set to ease this year, according to the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) Quarterly Economic Indicator (QEI).
House prices and home sales activity increased in Scotland according to the December Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.
The Scottish Government has announced further measures to help stop the spread of coronavirus and limit non-essential contact. From Saturday, non-essential click and collect retail services will be prohibited in Level 4 areas and further changes will be put in place to how services open for ess
Yesterday was a record day for our sister publication Scottish Construction Now with over 30,000 visitors to its website.
HSBC has warned that it could close accounts for customers who refuse to wear masks in its bank branches. The bank called for customers to respect the law that made wearing face coverings in its branches mandatory to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Aberdeen-based cybersecurity specialist TechForce has announced it has secured new contracts worth up to £370,000. The contract wins follow the company’s listing in the UK Government’s G-Cloud12 framework for the second year in a row.
Titan Investors has announced it has secured FedEx as the first occupier for its new 20-acre logistics park Aberdeen One. FedEx has pre-let 43,500 sq ft on a 15 year lease. Under the development agreement an existing 70,000 sq ft warehouse will be stripped back to its structural frame and extensivel
Foods made from yellow mealworms could soon be mass-produced across Europe after the insect became the first to be found safe for human consumption by the EU's food safety agency.
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has secured a deal to rescue to the business and its sister brand Ponden Homes in a move which will save nearly 1,500 jobs. The joint administrators at FRP Advisory confirmed that the business had been sold to Purepay Retail Limited, which is backed by an international inv
Nicola Anderson has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Fintech Scotland. Ms Anderson has been on secondment from the FCA for two years and most recently been the interim chief executive when Stephen Ingledew stepped into a new position of executive chair in November 2020.
Malcolm Cannon, the director of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland, has quit the role for a new post with Simpson & Marwick in Edinburgh, after less than 18 months in the job. Mr Cannon has been appointed as the new managing director of Simpson & Marwick's property services in Edinbur
Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group has unveiled the next stage of its plan to boost Scotland’s fintech workforce in the fastest-growing digital economy outside London. As part of the launch of its new tech hub in Edinburgh in March 2019, Lloyds announced a recruitment drive to create
A strong final quarter of 2020 saw shares in Scottish companies outperform the wider FTSE and AIM All Share indices, with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic creating clear winners and losers from the crisis, according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin. The wealth manager found that Scottish organisa