Investment managers that hold stakes in FTSE 350 companies “will expect companies to continue to show restraint and restrict executive bonuses where government support has…

Pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson has warned that a lack of understanding about “company beliefs” and how they impact decision making around pensions schemes could endanger the…

Patrick Keefe has been named the winner of the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021 for Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the…

By Mark McSherry The Abrdn China Investment Company Limited said it has invested over £100 million in Chinese stocks since it completed a scheme of reconstruction…

A £13 million investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank awarded to the Iona wind partnership will help accelerate the delivery of the Iona onshore…

Edinburgh-based Martin Currie, the active equity specialist fund manager, has announced the addition of Aimee Truesdale as a portfolio manager on the firm’s global emerging…

Edinburgh-based asset management advisory firm Devlin Mambo have announced the appointment of Andrew Milligan to the position of board advisor. Milligan is the former Head of…

Venture capital (VC) investors ploughed record amounts of money into Scottish scaleup firms over the summer with more than £197 million raised, according to Venture…

Aberdeen-based global engineering group Wood plc said on Friday it has started a strategic review of “the part of its consulting business facing the built environment end…

Moody’s Investors Service said it has completed a periodic review of the ratings of Aberdeen City Council, which completed a successful £370 million bond sale via…

Scottish Widows said workplace pension savers will soon be able to view the sustainable impact of their pension investments using a new mobile phone app….

John Menzies plc, the Edinburgh-based global aviation services business, said on Wednesday that Menzies Aviation has secured a significant contract win with Mexico’s flagship carrier…

Edinburgh asset management giant Abrdn has added its voice to a growing number of UK corporate bond managers with concerns about the current and unprecedented private equity…

The Law Society of Scotland has announced that Diane McGiffen will be appointed as its new chief executive. She succeeds Lorna Jack, who will leave…

Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, the £21 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, said on Monday it has increased its investment in healthcare and biology companies…

Wealth management is enjoying a jobs boom in Scotland, with a number of UK-wide firms setting up hubs in Scotland with experts predicting that more…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has confirmed it is in talks to buy Manchester-based online broker Interactive Investor, with analysts speculating the price could reach £1.5 billion….

All young people under the age of 22 resident in Scotland will have access to free bus travel from January 31, 2022, First Minister Nicola…

Glasgow-based global engineering and mining giant Weir Group said on Friday it has agreed to acquire Motion Metrics, a Canada-based global mining technology business, for an initial…

Companies in the UK’s oil and gas sector are predicting that the share of their business outside of oil and gas will jump from 21%…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has made three major appointments to its real assets team to support its ambitious growth agenda. Abrdn oversees £532 billion of assets including £50…

Edinburgh BioQuarter — which now plans to have up to 2,500 residential units — has formally launched its public procurement process for a private sector…

The the latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) report from global funds network Calastone shows that rising fears over inflation and interest rates, as well as…

Edinburgh-based international oil and gas company Cairn Energy is ending its long-running tax fight with the government of India and is promising shareholders a payout…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has announced a target to reduce the carbon intensity of its assets by 50% by 2030 versus a 2019 baseline. Abrdn…

The accounting deficit of the defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and other post-retirement benefit plans for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies rose by £6…

Edinburgh-based Napiers the Herbalists has been bought by Samarkand Group plc, which describes itself as a “cross-border eCommerce company focused on connecting Western brands with…

Scotgold Resources Limited, the Australia-based gold exploration firm focused on Scotland, said on Tuesday that Nat Le Roux is stepping down as non-executive chairman, a position he…

Glasgow-based global intellectual property law firm Murgitroyd Group has announced the latest move in its international expansion strategy with the acquisition of Leeds-based UDL Intellectual Property practice. This…

Ice cream, food and drink brand Mackie’s of Scotland has reached a milestone by generating more than one hundred gigawatt hours of renewable energy through…

NatWest-RBS said on Friday its operating profit before tax more than tripled to £1.074 billion in the third quarter and total income rose 14.5% to £2.77 billion. However,…

Scottish business and finance groups were quick to react to the UK budget statement on Wednesday, with most of them of the opinion that more…

Aberdeen-based transport firm FirstGroup plc has launched its proposed return of up to £500 million to its shareholders via a tender offer at 105p per…

River and Mercantile Group’s chief executive James Barham will move to Schroders as part of its purchase of R&M’s fiduciary arm Solutions for an enterprise value of…

UK dividends soared to £34.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021, up 89.2% year-on-year on a headline basis, boosted the mining boom and very large…

Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has announced a significant investment from London-based August Equity to speed up its growth plans and help realise its strategic…

(Updates with Monday statement from Co-operative Bank) Spain’s Banco Sabadell confirmed at the weekend that its board has rejected an audacious offer for its subsidiary TSB Bank…

Highlands and Islands Enterprise announced that Stuart Black has been appointed its next chief executive. Black, who will take up the post in January 2022,…

FirstGroup has launched Lumo, its new 100% electric and “affordable” fast rail service between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross. FirstGroup has pledged that fares will…

ScottishPower CEO Keith Anderson has urged UK ministers to urgently review the energy price cap and warned that high wholesale gas prices could trigger an “absolute…

By Mark McSherry Aberdeen-based transport group FirstGroup plc said on Thursday it sold its Greyhound Lines bus business in North America for $172 million to…

A new strategy to secure a £4 billion share of the global space market for the Scottish economy has been published by the Scottish Government….

The Scottish Investment Trust plc (SCIN) announced on Wednesday it plans to give up on its in-house management team and independence and combine with the JPMorgan…

Edinburgh-based Artisanal Spirits Company plc, owner of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), announced that it has signed a 10-year lease for a new supply chain…

UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chair Charles Randell has announced his intention to step down a year early amid a staff backlash about an overhaul…

The £265 million Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust plc has described Beijing’s crackdown on internet companies as “remarkably sensible.” The Baillie Gifford fund said the market…

Natwest-RBS said on Wednesday it is planning to increase lending linked to sustainable and climate-related finance to £100 billion by 2025. The pledge comes ahead…

Perth-based Stagecoach Group plc, Britain’s biggest bus operator, said on Tuesday it is still in talks to be taken over by National Express Group Plc and…

Barclays has officially opened its new campus on the south bank of the River Clyde in Tradeston, Glasgow, to house its technology, operations and functions…

Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora said it has agreed a multi-launch deal with the SaxaVord spaceport on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Islands, as it…

A newly formed group of big companies with major a footprint in Scotland have joined forces to launch a new climate action initiative ahead of…

Real estate advisor Avison Young has released its latest quarterly Glasgow office market update, covering the third quarter of 2021, showing up a 66% rise…

The UK’s Investment Association (IA) has reported that retail investors put £5.3 billion into funds in August – a record amount for that month. Salford…

Airlines have been invited to bid for a contract to resume “lifeline” flights from Wick John O’Groats Airport, which is operated by Highlands and Islands…

Funds focused on UK equities suffered heavy selling from investors spooked by the multiple crises afflicting the UK in September, according to the latest Fund…

Greenpeace announced it has lost its court case challenging the UK government’s decision to grant a permit to BP to drill the Vorlich Field in…

Glasgow-based global engineering and mining giant Weir Group — one of Scotland’s biggest listed companies —  said on Thursday it was subjected to an attempted ransomware attack…

NatWest said on Thursday it has pleaded guilty to three offences of money laundering between 2012 and 2016 “in relation to the accounts of a…

Adam Smith Institute head of research Matthew Lesh has dismissed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference as “bombastic but vacuous…

By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based asset management giant abrdn announced it has agreed as a member of a bondholder committee to a restructuring of $530 million…

The Borderlands Partnership said it has published a Borders Railway Prospectus which “will inform ongoing discussions with the UK and Scottish governments for the extension…

Fundraising by existing investment trust companies in 2021 has already exceeded the previous 2019 record for secondary fundraising — with £8.71 billion raised so far…

Thurso-based battery cell developer AMTE Power, which went public in March, has announced a joint venture in Australia and published results for the year to…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of the “old” Standard Life Assurance, has announced a programme of investment in the iconic Standard…

By Mark McSherry ESG investment frameworks “are profoundly damaging to the prospect of changing the corporate sector” according to James Anderson, the outgoing joint manager of…

Aberdeen-based transport group FirstGroup plc announced that its subsidiary First South West Limited has acquired the remaining 50% shareholding in its Somerset Passenger Solutions Ltd…

Baillie Gifford’s high-flying flagship fund, the £20 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, announced the appointment of Prudential plc chief financial officer Mark FitzPatrick as a non-executive director….

A new report from OGUK, which represents the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry, reports that global demand for gas will rise for the next…

Shares of Glasgow-based cloud data centre operator Iomart Group plc fell 16% on Friday after it said it anticipates that results for the full year…

Aberdeen-based transport group FirstGroup plc announced that its Greyhound bus subsidiary has been awarded an initial funding grant of $84.6 million from the first tranche…