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Some major UK banks are getting decisions about certain customer scams and reimbursement wrong in around eight in 10 cases seen by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), according to Which?. Which? said a “reimbursement lottery” leaves many victims struggling to recover their money when

A lack of new properties being listed for sale continues to drive house prices up, while most new buyers don’t factor in energy efficiency in their purchase, according to the October 2021 RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

Return-to-work experts Women Returners has received Scottish Government funding to provide fully-funded career coaching, skills training and mentoring to tackle the daunting challenges being faced by women struggling to return to fulfilling professional-level work. As the Scottish job market recover

More than 10.7 million customers completed their 2019/20 tax return by 31 January 2021 and 795,300 were from Scotland, HMRC has revealed. The deadline to complete the 2020/21 Self Assessment tax return is 31 January 2022.

A group of up and coming Scottish-based, female company founders will attend a market building virtual trade mission across Germany and the DACH region next month led by AccelerateHER. The three-day event will include a masterclass session with Austria-based Lisa-Marie Fassl, a dynamic, global figur

Low-carbon collaboration between Scotland and Japan is to be strengthened further after Scottish Enterprise signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Marubeni Corporation. The MoU between Scotland’s national economic development agency and the Japanese conglomerate will see both part

A brothel is playing its part in the fight against Covid-19 by opening a vaccination clinic and offering punters a free session in exchange for a shot. Fun Palast in Vienna said those who come for a jab will receive a €40 voucher, enough to spend 30 minutes in its "sex-star sauna club", CNN rep

Derek Gemmell, partner and head of innovations tax at Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), discusses the complications arising from R&D tax relief. Following recent consultation on changes to categories of Research and Development (R&D) expenditure that will align the availability of R&D

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is set to ditch plans to hold company directors personally liable for accountancy failures through fines and bans, after backlash from UK businesses. Earlier this year, Scottish Financial News reported that the UK Government intended to reform corporate governance,

David Thomson, chief investment officer at VWM Wealth, details the fundamentals of ESG investing. With COP26 in full swing, the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) theme sweeping the investment community could not be more topical.

Dyneval, the Roslin-based biotechnology start-up, has secured more than £1.8 million of funding from investors as it expands its team and gears up to launch its first product at the start of 2022. The company has raised £1.29m of Series A equity investment through a collaborative funding

Aberdeen-based adventure travel business Camperceilidh Campers is gearing up for further growth after securing financial support for its expansion plans and riding the staycation boom during the covid-19 pandemic. Set up in July 2020 by ex-oil and gas sector manager, Eileen O’Farrell, Camperce

The Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund Limited, a fund managed by abrdn, has posted a Net Asset Value (NAV) total return of 17.4% compared to -27.5% in 2020. For the year ended 31 August 2021, the fund revealed its ordinary share price total return came in at 20.9% compared to -24.4% in 2020.

A ground-breaking feed additive that results in a 30% or more reduction in methane produced by cattle will be globally manufactured in Scotland. As the second week of COP26 gets underway in Glasgow, science-based company Royal DSM unveiled plans for a large-scale production facility at its site in D

Digital bank Monument has announced that the Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have lifted deposit restrictions on its licence, so it can now operate as a fully-licensed deposit taking bank. Monument is the first neo-bank to be launched in the UK specifically to me