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Edinburgh-based hand sanitiser producer ClearWater Hygiene has announced a new £2.5 million partnership with One Digital Signage, aimed at helping UK businesses promote positive health and hygiene safety in the fight against COVID-19. Midlands-based One Digital Signage will supply digital

Two-fifths of business owners in Scotland say they’re worried about their mental health, according to a survey of 1200 entrepreneurs conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). More than half of the respondents (55%) to the poll said that they had concerns about the survival of thei

The latest research by global real estate adviser CBRE has revealed a positive end to 2020 for the Aberdeen office market, with a take-up of 155,926 sq ft for the final quarter. Whilst this is down 34% on the same period in 2019, it is 26% up on the five-year average of 123,307 sq ft for Q4.

Edinburgh-based financial services training provider Redmill Advance has acquired AKORN Education as it welcomes Angelo Kornecki as its new technical director. AKORN Education is a financial services education and training specialist. The acquisition of this team of teaching and financial services p

Barclays Corporate Banking has found that optimism in the financial services sector is high as it enters into 2021.

With Scotland’s CAN DO Innovation Summit fast-approaching, the winners of its #SME stage competition are today unveiled, as further details of the programme for the virtual event on 3 February are announced. The three winners of the competition, open to all small and medium-sized Scottish busi

British Land has appointed Bhavesh Mistry as its new chief financial officer. Mr Mistry is currently deputy chief financial officer at Tesco PLC, a position he has held for over two years. Prior to that he spent more than five years at Whitbread PLC, where he was Finance Director of Whitbread Hotels

A teenager who was rapped for supporting Black Lives Matter protests turned the tables on her mother by turning her in for allegedly trying to storm the Capitol.

William Duncan + Co Ltd has appointed Steven Wright as a new director in its business recovery division. A licensed Insolvency Practitioner, Mr Wright joined William Duncan in 2019. With over 15 years experience in dealing with formal insolvency appointments including CVA’s, administrations, r

HSBC has announced that will close 82 branches in the UK this year as the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the move away from in-person banking and towards digital methods. The closures, which will leave HSBC with 511 branches across the UK, will take place between April and September, with the bank pl

Independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager Foresight Group has made a £4.5 million investment into Edinburgh-based iMist Holdings Limited, a manufacturer and installer of water mist fire protection systems for homes and residential buildings. iMist was founded in 201

The institutionally-backed development and bridging lender Atelier Capital Partners has funded more than £100 million of loans since launch. Atelier, which specialises in short-term finance for professional residential developers and SME property companies, reached the milestone after posting

Scottish cities are set to avoid the worst of the impact of economic downturns throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities report.

Two-thirds (66%) of investors aged 18-34 began to invest for the first time last year as lockdown made their finances a top priority, research from Dundee-based investment company Alliance Trust Plc has revealed. A third (33%) of younger people who began investing in 2020 said they did so because CO

Xergy, a new tech start-up behind a cloud-based system that can help companies get ready for tomorrow’s economy through digital transformation, has secured £425,000 grant funding from Scottish Enterprise. The funding will enable Xergy to further invest in the development of its revolutio