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Loganair and Blue Islands, the growing Channel Islands-based airline, have joined forces to offer their customers a broad new range of regional air connections across the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. 

Atelier Capital Partners has appointed Martin Gilsenan as director of origination. The firm is a short term lender, which provides finance for developments across the UK and has already financed projects in Scotland.

Coastal communities across Scotland will receive £9.7 million of revenue generated by the Scottish Crown Estate’s marine assets, providing vital support for responding to the impact of coronavirus.

A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has sold at a public auction for £90,300.

Aberdeen Football Club’s finance director, Kevin MacIver, has been appointed to the club's board of directors. Mr MacIver, a qualified accountant with 30 years' experience, joined the club as finance director in November 2018.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed John Bennett as a new UK business development director. Mr Bennett, based in London, will support ASI's investment sales team in bringing its investment strategies to its clients in UK wholesale.

Solicitor estate agents have accused the Scottish government of creating dangerous uncertainty in the housing market by announcing a proposed change to the property tax threshold without stating when it will be introduced. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LB

Start-ups whose routes for investment and growth have been impacted by COVID-19 will be eligible for support through a new £38 million package announced by the Scottish Government today. The package, to be managed by Scottish Enterprise, will include three levels of support to meet the needs o

Auditors have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought additional risks of public sector fraud risks in Scotland. Public sector staff working remotely and under extreme pressure are among the new risks set out in a new report from the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) co-ordinated by Audit Scotla

An Midlothian company researching ground-breaking new haemophilia treatments has secured £1.1 million in investment to advance its R&D programme with the help of Kelvin Capital. ProFactor Pharma Ltd (PFP), based outside Edinburgh at the Easter Bush campus, has received the second tranche o

A coalition of economists, charities, think tanks and businesses have called on the Scottish Government to make a "nationwide pivot towards community-led social enterprises" as part of the economic recovery from COVID-19. In an open letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the coalition criticised

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is seeking to slap Big Four audit firm Deloitte with a record £15 million fine in connection with failures in its audit of Autonomy. An FRC Tribunal ruled yesterday that Deloitte "failed to discharge its public interest duty" in its audit of Autonomy prior

Scottish accountancy firm Wylie & Bisset has pronounced "the death of the business suit" following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scotland's finance minister Kate Forbes is being urged to match England's stamp duty tax cut for house buyers.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined Grant Thornton for repeated breaches of ethical standards. Such breaches included failing to maintain its independence over its audit of collapsed alcohol firm Conviviality.