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Edinburgh-based software development startup Pogo Studio is planning to grow its headcount before the end of the year following a series of recent client wins. The firm's client wins include Signal Mutual, one of the US’s largest shipping and port authority insurance groups, NHS Scotland,

Aberdeen Standard Capital (ASC), the discretionary investment management arm of Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), has launched its Sustainable Managed Portfolio Service (MPS). The service will cater for a wide range of investors looking to make an impact on society and the environment throug

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final rules banning the sale of derivatives and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) that reference certain types of cryptoassets to retail consumers. The FCA considers these products to be ill-suited for retail consumers due to the harm they pose.

A prisoner who complained of intolerable pain was found to have four phones lodged in his rectum.

Blair Nimmo, head of restructuring at KPMG in Scotland, discusses the landlord-occupier tensions during the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions between commercial landlords and their financially stressed tenants continue to grow, and how landlords respond will be critical to the recovery not only of

More than 100 graduates have started their career at PwC after a rise in virtual recruitment enabled the firm to grow across its three Scottish offices. The record autumn intake of 108 student joiners had to rely on digital induction after taking delivery of company laptops to their homes as ongoing

Accountancy firm Grant Thornton has ended a long-running legal battle over its failure to expose a fraud at a former client, AssetCo, leaving it facing a bill of £28.6 million. On Friday, the firm told fire-engine leasing service AssetCo, that it would not pursue a further appeal.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched a new Global Innovation Equity Fund, seeking to invest in companies with strong cultures of innovation across the globe. The Luxembourg-domiciled Aberdeen Standard SICAV I – Global Innovation Equity Fund will invest in all-caps and will not be r

Façade, window and door designer, manufacturer and installer, CMS Group, has appointed Andrew Charters as group finance director. Mr Charters joins Maven Capital Partners-backed CMS from the Scottish Football Association (SFA) where he has held the post of director of finance and IT for the l

Solicitor, chartered accountant and property entrepreneur David Lockhart has died. Mr Lockhart, led Scottish company Halladale to the stock market before selling it and setting up retail and leisure REIT New River.

Construction companies, engineering firms and other businesses active in the infrastructure sector stand to lose out on funding, investment and major government contracts around the world unless they take a more active role in the fight against climate change. A growing imperative for infrastructure

Scottish fintech Miconex is expanding from its Perth base with new contracts to deliver gift card programmes in Canada, the USA and Ireland, in association with international payments technology solutions provider EML Payments. Miconex operates 13 Town and City Gift Card programmes across

Property management firm apropos has attracted its highest ever monthly number of new properties during September. The firm, which operates as D.J. Alexander Ltd in Scotland with apropos as its UK-wide property management platform, has recorded an increase of 139 properties to its business

Stonehaven-based distillery Gordon & MacPhail has launched the second of four commemorative whiskies to celebrate its 125th anniversary.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced that a new cohort of academic entrepreneurs has been awarded prestigious Enterprise Fellowships. Six innovators, each with a unique business proposition, will now benefit from an equity-free support package worth up to £100,000, to aid them in