Investment in Scottish commercial property increased 35% during the first six months of 2021 compared to the same period last year as the market continued…

By Mark McSherry Aberdeen-based bus and rail giant FirstGroup plc said on Thursday it has increased its proposed return of value to shareholders to £500…

Shares of Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo plc fell about 15% on Thursday to around £17.50 as it announced its intention to conduct a placing of…

The UK Government on Thursday unveiled a plan to return NatWest-RBS to majority private ownership within a year. The UK taxpayer still owns 54.7% of NatWest-RBS…

Cazenove Capital said its Edinburgh team has moved to a new base in Charlotte Square and has announced the appointment of James Burley as a portfolio…

Interest payments on the UK Government’s debt were £8.7 billion in June 2021, the highest monthly payment since records began in April 1997, the UK’s…

Scotland’s onshore GDP grew by 0.9% in May, according to the latest statistics from the Chief Statistician. However, output remains 2.7% below the pre-pandemic level…

Edinburgh-based Menzies Aviation has won a ground services contract with WestJet as the Canadian airline begins flights into Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS). “This win for…

Online whisky auction site Whisky Hammer and its sister retail business Still Spirit are poised for international expansion after selling a 49% stake of the…

UK insurer and asset manager M&G said it has invested in two private companies at the forefront of carbon capture and storage technology — including…

Cumbernauld-based Irn-Bru maker A.G. Barr said on Tuesday its recent trading has been “better than anticipated” and that it expects profit for the current 53-week financial…

Falkirk-based Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and China’s BYD UK jointly announced that their electric vehicle partnership has signed a framework agreement with the National Transport Authority…

Aberdeen-based global engineering group Wood plc said it has formed a partnership with insurance giant AIG and the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Future Cities…

BP and Germany’s EnBW said on Monday they have submitted a joint bid for Scottish offshore wind acreage in the ScotWind leasing round which could support…

Shares of Edinburgh-based ready meals firm Parsley Box Group plc fell about 17% on Monday despite the firm publishing a trading update saying it expects revenue…

Artisanal Spirits Company plc, owner of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), on Monday published a trading update for the six months ended June 30, 2021…

The UK’s Central Bank has become “addicted” to quantitative easing, according to a report published on Friday by the Economic Affairs Committee in the House of…

ScottishPower and Shell have joined forces with a bid to develop the world’s first large-scale floating offshore windfarms in the north-east of Scotland. The partnership…

Councils across Scotland are to share more than £3.2 billion in grant funding over five years to build more affordable homes. Local authorities will receive…

Edinburgh funds platform Nucleus Financial Group — which has agreed to a £145 million takeover by investment firm James Hay — said on Friday its assets under administration…

Thurso-based battery cell developer AMTE Power, which went public in March, said on Friday it is “in regular dialogue with elements of the UK government…

Edinburgh-based Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP) announced it has closed a seed round of £2 million led by Force Over Mass, a London-based venture capital firm, and…

Revolut, the digital banking app, has announced an $800 million series E funding round which it says values the business at $33 billion. Revolut’s chairman…

Shares of Glasgow-based media firm STV Group plc rose about 3% on Thursday as it published a trading update showing first-half 2021 advertising growth ahead…

Fees for children learning a musical instrument at school are to be removed thanks to more than £7 million funding from the Scottish Government. “Councils…

NatWest Group plc (NWG) said credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Services has upgraded a number of ratings across the group. The banking group said Moody’s upgraded the…

The £677 million Scottish Investment Trust plc (SIT) has warned that making stock market investments based on the influence of a “new generation of self-appointed…

Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, said on Wednesday it led investment of £12.4 million in Scottish tech and life sciences companies in the…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant abrdn on Wednesday outlined a new structure for its investment management team amid the decision by Rod Paris to retire as…

UK equity funds enjoyed record inflows in the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone. Between April and June,…

Shares of Edinburgh-based Craneware, a provider of software for the US healthcare market, rose about 2% on Tuesday as it published an update on trading for…

Shares of Alva-based Omega Diagnostics Group fell about 5% on Tuesday after it announced its revenue fell 11% to £8.73 million in the year to…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of the “old” Edinburgh-based Standard Life Assurance, said on Tuesday it agreed to sell Ark Life…

The Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income plc fund (ASLI) announced the acquisition of an urban logistics warehouse near Barcelona in Catalonia. “The purchase price of…

Shares of Glasgow-based fashion firm Quiz rose as much as 20% on Monday after it published an update on trading and its cash position for the…

Edinburgh-based fixed income investment firm Cameron Hume said on Monday it has been awarded a A$125m ($98m) ESG (environmental, social and governance) focused fixed-income mandate…

The Scottish private sector ended the second quarter of 2021 with further rapid expansion, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)…

Ineos Chemicals Grangemouth, Ineos FPS and Petroineos have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Acorn CCS Project to work together to develop Scotland’s first…

The Scottish Government has announced a new 10-year “National Strategy” to drive Scotland’s “economic transformation” as the country recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic. A team of business…

Scottish universities have seen a record number of prospective students applying to study for the academic year ahead, according to new figures from the Universities…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Thursday that a court…

Edinburgh-based international oil and gas company Cairn Energy said on Thursday that a Paris court accepted its petition that Indian state-owned assets in the city…

Karen Betts, chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) since May 2017, is leaving her role to become chief executive of the UK’s Food…

Rural property consultancy Galbraith has said the demand for land “for natural capital and rewilding” is boosting the market for Scottish estates, alongside the desire…

The total value of Scotland’s goods exports for the year ending March 2021 fell 22% or £7.1 billion to £25.6 billion compared with the previous…

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Wednesday that a total of £2.2 million was reportedly lost to pension scammers in the first five months…

Perth-based Stagecoach and Aberdeen-based FirstGroup both welcomed the UK Government’s announcement on Tuesday of extended funding to support the recovery of bus services in England. The…

Scottish Water has unveiled details of one of Scotland’s biggest capital investment infrastructure programmes in recent years — with the appointment of a network of…

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Tuesday that a review of 18 fund managers between  July 2020  and  May 2021, covering different business models…

Alliance Trust plc, the £3 billion Dundee investment trust company which uses external fund managers Willis Towers Watson (WTW), said on Tuesday that the final hearing…

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) said on Tuesday that businesses in Scotland can see the first shoots of recovery for the first time in…

Ineos Energy announced it has agreed to buy 25 million shares in the forthcoming IPO of HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc, representing 10% of the target…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen announced on Monday that it has been officially renamed abrdn plc. The company’s stock market ticker was changed from…

The Scottish Government said on Friday that an additional £380 million is being allocated to Health Boards to help with costs arising from the pandemic….

Aberdeen-based John Wood Group plc confirmed on Friday that Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (AFWEL) has entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the…

The funding status of the UK’s 5,300 corporate defined benefit (DB) pension schemes continues to show that schemes are, on average, in a clear surplus…

Scotgold Resources Limited, the Australia-based gold exploration firm focused on Scotland, said on Friday it is aiming for its second shipment of gold concentrate from…

Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms has agreed to acquire Shetland and Skye-based Grieg Seafood Hjaltland UK from its Norwegian parent Grieg Seafood ASA for £164 million. Stirling-based…

Shares of Elgin-based Springfield Properties, which is building a number of new communities throughout Scotland, rose about 4% on Thursday as it published a trading update for…

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution, a wholly owned subsidiary of SSE Plc, has published a £4.1 billion draft business plan for 2023 to 2028,…

Murray Capital Group has filed accounts for the 18-month period ending June 30, 2020, showing turnover from continued operations of £100.1 million — as ownership of…

Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo plc said on Thursday it reached agreement with Preservation Capital Partners Limited to acquire a 30% equity interest in Parmenion Capital…

Shares of troubled West of Shetland oil and gas explorer Hurricane Energy plc rose almost 30% on Wednesday after it said chairman Steven McTiernan and…

Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach Group plc said on Wednesday its revenue fell 35% to £928.2 million in the year to May 1, 2021, as its…

Glasgow-based drinks company Edrington — owner of Scotch whisky brands The Macallan, Highland Park and The Famous Grouse — said on Wednesday its core revenue fell 15%…

The £8 billion Lothian Pension Fund (LPF) said on Tuesday it paid out £194.3 million in pension benefits to 33,915 beneficiaries in 2020-21 compared to £185.8…

The Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report 2020-21 shows that the average price of a residential property in Scotland in 2020-21 was £194,100, up 6.7%…

Natwest-RBS has capped the daily amount its customers can send to cryptocurrency exchanges — including the Binance platform — because of concerns over investment scams and…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc said on Tuesday it has sold almost 5% of HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited in India to raise…

Troubled West of Shetland oil and gas explorer Hurricane Energy plc said on Monday the High Court of Justice of England and Wales has not…