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Financial institutions are spending, on average, 14% of annual operating costs on change management functions in order to drive greater productivity gains, a new PwC study has shown.

Scottish farm incomes dropped by more than a third last year (36%) while the average farm business would have made a loss of £17,100 without support payments, according to new figures released by the Scottish Government.

Perth-based insurer Aviva has abandoned its 2022 hiring target for older workers. The firm has employed 600 over-50s since it highlighted plans in late 2017 to obtain more older workers as life expectancy in the UK rises.

Scottish biotech company BioCaptiva has raised over £1 million in seed funding from Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate Archangels and Scottish Enterprise, to help develop a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device. The device coul

All UK firms that employ veterans will be exempt from paying national insurance on the first 12 months of their employment.

Fife College has welcomed Kirkcaldy-based company Astrak as it became the first small or medium enterprise (SME) in Fife to benefit from the Flexible Workforce Development Fund.

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has welcomed the first steps to the re-opening of retail after the lockdown restrictions were announced in December.

Morningside School of Music in Edinburgh has announced that it will be accepting payments from customers in the form of cryptocurrency.

A Supreme Court VAT ruling issued yesterday in favour of care home operator Balhousie Holdings has set an important precedent for UK business, according to legal experts. The ruling - the culmination of a lengthy legal battle dating back to 2015 - hinged on the process in which Balhousie, owner

Insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Scotland is urging directors of COVID-hit businesses to make the most of the time granted by the Government’s extension of temporary insolvency measures to plan for the future. The Government has announced that it will extend a number of temporary

The board of KPMG UK has nominated Jon Holt, the firm's current UK Audit, as its nominee for the role of chief executive. The decision follows an extensive nominations process that included interviews with potential candidates, a rigorous, independent assessment and undertaking partner views through

Following extensive consultation with employees, Big Four audit firm PwC has announced a deal to allow its 22,000 employees greater flexibility for post-pandemic working. The firm has said employees will be given more freedom to decide the most effective working pattern on any given day - for e

Dundee-headquartered Kerr’s Family Dairy has welcomed a £450,000 funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland as the firm sets it eyes on an extensive expansion across the north-east. Supplying more than 60,000 glass bottles of milk to the doorsteps of thousands of customers every week, K

An independent family retail business in Moray has been supported by a six-figure Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan (CBIL) from HSBC UK to help see it through the pandemic. J.P.Pozzi - the family’s award-winning Buckie newsagent, gift shop and coffee shop - and its sister company Bijou by

Betsy Williamson, managing director at Core-Asset Consulting, reveals why resilient fund managers have what it takes to weather the storm of COVID-19. Scottish fund managers have harnessed five years of painful experiences to weather the pandemic better than many other of the financial services sect