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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.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced plans to cut taxes for flights to Scotland in an attempt to boost the “social cohesion of the Union”.

NatWest Group has joined forces with Microsoft to help UK businesses better understand their carbon footprint and create tailored action plans to reduce their carbon emissions leveraging digital technologies. Due to be piloted later this year, and building on Microsoft’s innovative cloud, data

Blippar, the Augmented Reality (AR) technology company which is the latest addition to Chroma Ventures portfolio, has announced it has closed a $5 million funding round. The pre-Series A round was co-led by Chroma Ventures, the investment arm of Paddy Burns’ and Chris van der Kuyl’s gami

Virgin Money, the owner of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, has added Fluidly to its growing list of FinTech partners as the bank continues to develop its new business banking offer for customers.

Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS), the arm of Scottish Enterprise which promotes company growth through employee ownership and co-operative business models, is today launching a unique series of podcasts aimed at highlighting the benefits of inclusive business models. The Reset and Rebuild Pod

Consumer price inflation unexpectedly dipped to a three-month low of 0.4% in February from 0.7% in January, according to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).