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Aberdeen-based swarf management specialists ROMAR International has appointed Alan Shanks as its new chief financial officer. Mr Shanks took up his new role on June 1 this year, in a move which the firm said would add further strength to the board and executive leadership team.

Edinburgh tech start-up PicoJar has successfully completed a £146,000 pre-seed funding round led by Techstart Ventures and backed by Skyscanner founder Gareth Williams. The firm, which was founded by former Amazon and Skyscanner software engineer Siwei Kang, is behind an AI-powered note-t

The UK is a world-leading FinTech centre, with London often being labelled the global FinTech capital. From a Scottish perspective, over the past couple of years both Edinburgh and Glasgow have been establishing themselves as FinTech powerhouses. Allie McGowan looks below at some of the ways that CO

A total of 60% of Scottish SMEs are experiencing drops in revenue and 73% have put the brakes on investment decisions, according to a survey conducted by Newable, a business advice and funding service.

Andrew Hill, lease advisory partner at Knight Frank's Edinburgh office, details the importance of collaboration between landlords and tenants during the coronavirus crisis. Times of extreme economic pressure tend to place a strain on business relationships. In the COVID-19 crisis we currently face,

Nationwide Building Society has offered around 200 redundancy packages to its staff in an attempt to avoid compulsory lay-offs. The lender, which is the UK's biggest building society, currently employes around 17,000 staff and hopes that enough employees will sign up for the redundancy programme, or

The government must introduce a new ‘jobs guarantee fund’ and expand apprenticeship, college and university places to protect the ‘COVID class of 2020’, according to research published today by IPPR Scotland.

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Former Scottish gangster Hugh Collins has challenged Edinburgh Zoo over the sale of his gorilla head sculptures.

BDO, the liquidator of the former owner of Rangers Football Club (RFC), has accumulated fees of around £1,700 per day, according to its latest report. BDO has had its bill for £290,000 for work between November 2 last year and May 15 in 2020 approved by the creditors’ committee of

Dundee-based EQ Accountants has claimed over £20 million of Research & Development tax credits for its clients. The firm, which has offices in Dundee, Forfar, Cupar and Glenrothes has secured over 360 claims for innovative companies who have undertaken problem-solving activities to adapt o

Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Infinity Partnership has made claims of more than £5 million on behalf of its clients since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. The firm has successfully claimed more than £2m in government grants and loans, while the rest is made up of fast-tracked res

Creditors are on track to lose £1.2 million following the collapse of Glasgow-based legal firm Hamilton Burns. 

Glenrothes-based accountancy firm Empowered by Cloud has changed its operating model to become a permanent remote operation.  The strategic switch to a 100% remote service came after a refocusing of its business strategy and has seen the Cloud accountancy specialist’s client base dou

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