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The Scottish Government is to invest more than £14 million to support north east-based workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil and gas downturn. The funding will provide opportunities for more than 3,000 individuals in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire through training and enterprise pr

Insurance firms may not be ready to implement new product governance rules there to ensure insurance provides fair value, according to a review published today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As part of the FCA’s ongoing work to ensure consumers receive fair value, the review looked

A new medicines manufacturing innovation centre that will solve major pharmaceutical industry challenges and accelerate access to affordable medicines has topped out this week. 

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon – or Johnny Rotten – has lost a High Court battle with his former bandmates over a new TV show about their career. He pulled out of the six-part miniseries to be directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle and refused to allow the band's music to be used in the s

Scottish chartered accountancy firm French Duncan has promoted Judith Howson to the role of restructuring and debt advisory director. Ms Howson's promotion is part of a significant wave of internal promotions across several of the firm's service streams.

A group of six graduates have taken up trainee positions at accountancy, tax and business advisory firm, EQ Accountants LLP. Each year, the firm provides graduate training contracts to local graduates who want to train to become a Chartered Accountant. EQ delivers an intensive, three-year training p

The partners at chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset are celebrating the return of staff members old and new to the office to start new hybrid working practices in a safe air-purified environment. To support the opportunity for better work-life balance, the firm will not return to an office-base

James Irving-Lewis of Phil Anderson Financial Services in Aberdeen discusses the COVID-19 insurance myth. With more than 1.8 million confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide and fears that 80% of the UK population will fall ill as a result, many people are looking to their insurance provi

Edinburgh-based golf tech developer Shot Scope has secured £1.5 million in funding from Clydesdale Bank owner Virgin Money to help the company scale globally. Shot Scope provides wearable, global positioning, laser and shot tracking devices designed to aid decision making and improve golf

Aberdeen-headquartered finance advisory specialists Hutcheon Mearns is to move to Water's Edge, Chroma Developments’ grade-A office development on Dundee’s dockside.

Mint Property Finance has launched in Scotland as it launches a new Scottish Standard Bridging Loan with rates from 0.40% per month. The firm said the move heralds the introduction of its third new ‘Power Product’ – the Scottish Standard Bridging Loan – and comes to follows s

A business’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials are increasingly driving Scottish High Net Worth investors’ (HNWI) decision-making according to new research from Rathbone Investment Management. Over a quarter of Scottish HNWI’s currently base their investment de

Holiday let owners in Scotland are in the midst of one of the busiest summers on record – and there’s no sign of demand slowing.

Scottish spiced rum start-up Brass Neck has hit a major milestone by selling its 1000th bottle just months after launching. Now the delighted founders say they are in the best possible shape for a predicted global boom in rum sales, which they have dubbed the “rumnaissance”.

A group of Scottish female entrepreneurs will shine a light on ‘the future of the High Street’ when they take up residence within Edinburgh’s newest, prestigious retail destination. Almost twenty businesses supported by Women’s Business Station will set up shop within the Soo