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A group of accountants and business advisors has set off on an epic cycle from Aberdeen to London, in aid of charity.

An Edinburgh-based developer of cutting-edge team-building software has secured a trial with Royal Bank of Scotland whose project managers will use the tool to match employees to the most suitable roles.

Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has promoted five new directors. Suzanne Adshead, Lesley Clark, Jamie Davidson and Grant Roger, who are based in the Edinburgh office, and Stuart Walker, a member of the Johnston Carmichael Wealth team and located in Aberdeen, have

The joint administrators of Hutchinson Networks Ltd, Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG, have secured the sale of the business to PlanNet21 Communications Ltd. Edinburgh-based Hutchinson Networks was placed into administration on 13th May 2019, resulting in 94 redundancies.

Robbie McKenzie will lead LendingCrowd’s legal, risk and compliance function  

The Scottish Government needs to show greater strategic leadership across the public sector to achieve its digital ambitions, says the spending watchdog. There has been some good early progress towards putting digital at the heart of everything government does. Guidance has been introduced to ensure

Offshore private registers detailing who owns which companies in the Channel Islands are to be made public. The move follows sustained pressure on the islands to do their part of tackle tax avoidance.

The UK Treasury has this week announced a ‘Breathing Space’ scheme in England and Wales that will give people in debt 60 days to seek help while their creditors freeze the interest, and offers additional protections for people whose debt has led them to experience a mental health crisis.

Royal Bank of Scotland is to work with the Scottish Association for Young Farmers, the Rural Youth Project and the NFU Scotland Next Generation to offer an extension of its Entrepreneur Accelerator programme.

The “eleventh-hour” agreement between the Scottish Government and Green Party to secure the Scottish Budget would have been too rushed to conform with its proposed framework for introducing new taxes, the Chartered Institute of Taxation has said. The Scottish Government is proposing an 1

Glasgow City Council has approved the Built Heritage, Community Asset, Vacant and Derelict Land Asset Plans underpinning it Property and Land Strategy.

A family who thought the ornate receptacle they used to keep tennis balls in their hallway has now sold it for almost £4 million. The bronze censer bowl turned out to be was a unique relic made for the Chinese emperor 300 years ago. A British auction house dismissed it as a cheap 19th century

181 years after it was first formed in Glasgow, the Clydesdale Bank brand is to disappear from the high street, the lender's owners have announced as they warned of potential job cuts. CYBG completed the takeover of Virgin Money in October in a deal worth £1.7bn and CYBG said today that both C

Edinburgh-headquartered small/mid cap specialist investor Amati Global Investors is to remain majority employee-owned having successfully completed a transaction with Mattioli Woods to cancel Mattioli Woods’ option to acquire the remaining 51 per cent of the

Troubled East Kilbride-based five-a-side football firm Goals Soccer Centres has appointed Mike McGill as interim chief financial officer as the business also confirmed it had appointed Deloitte to work with current advisers and lenders to assess “future corporate options”.