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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that the proposed merger between Crowdcube and Seedrs will reduce competition and innovation. Crowdcube and Seedrs are the 2 largest equity crowdfunding platforms in the UK. These types of platforms connect small and medium-sized en

Shops should be free to choose to open on New Year's Day, according to the director of the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) upon discussion of the Scottish Government's potential plans to ban trading on the first day of the year.

Scottish businesses have benefited from more than £1.94 billion in grants paid directly to businesses since March 2020. This is in addition to £965 million in coronavirus non-domestic rates reliefs.

Some of Dundee’s most creative young entrepreneurs have joined forces with Developing the Young Workforce Dundee & Angus (DYW) encouraging other independent businesses to support young people after the last 12 months being a difficult time for young people to pursue careers. Local business

Barclays is issuing a scams warning focused on the 26,525 property and construction companies based in Scotland. Data released by the bank has revealed that scams targeting businesses increased by almost a third (31%) in January and February, when compared with last year.

Holiday vouchers, discounts for days out and a marketing fund are included in a new £25 million tourism recovery programme announced by the Scottish Government. Speaking at the Scottish Tourism Alliance conference, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the funding to support the sector&rsqu

A new Social Enterprise Action Plan will offer increased support to the sector, including £5 million of funding to boost its potential for growth and put the social enterprise model at the heart of Scotland’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The three-year action plan demonstrates

A purported haul of MDMA worth nearly £900,000 was actually strawberry-flavoured sweets, police have admitted.

Tax and business advisory firm EQ Accountants has announced that they are combining the expertise of their Cupar and Dundee offices, by amalgamating all personnel within their Dundee premises, with effect from 1 April this year. The firm's Cupar office will close from this date but there will b

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has awarded a new framework agreement to business advisory firm Anderson Anderson Brown (AAB) for the procurement of specialist advice to support its clients. AAB will identify, procure and manage specialist advisors who will support HIE clients as they recover

Murdoch MacLennan, banking partner with Azets, is warning export-focused businesses targeting markets outside of the EU that they need to be aware of the risks and costs of currency differences and fluctuations, an issue that will be new to many businesses if they have only traded with the EU. Curre

A £275 million scheme to entice business banking customers to move their current accounts from the Royal Bank of Scotland to alternative lenders has fallen short of its target. The Incentivised Switching Scheme (ISS) was launched in 2018 under measures to boost competition in the banking marke

Annual house price growth in the UK rebounded to 6.9% in February from 6.4% in January, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index.

Mark Logan, a leading expert in scaling digital businesses, has been appointed to oversee work, which is backed by £7 million of funding, to establish Scotland as a world-class technology hub. The former Skyscanner executive and professor of computing science at the University of Glasgow 

Government plans for a new “pay-as-you-go” income tax system for the self-employed will burden small businesses, UK experts have warned.