Edinburgh-based financial sector recruitment and headhunting company Core-Asset Consulting said on Monday it has recorded its best ever set of annual results. Core-Asset said it…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc on Wednesday warned of challenges for energy firms due to the UK election next month and the Labour Party’s plans to…

The Businesses in Scotland 2019 report shows that as of March 2019 there were an estimated 356,550 private sector businesses, including micro businesses, operating in…

Glasgow-based mutual Scottish Friendly announced on Wednesday a substantial acquisition of life and pensions policies from financial services provider Canada Life. The deal sees Scottish…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group on Friday published an update on its assets under administration (AUA) for the three months to September 30, 2019.  Nucleus said its…

UPDATE 2 — The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Thursday it will investigate whether OVO Energy’s £500 million deal to buy Perth-based…

SSE Renewables, which is leading the development of Dogger Bank Wind Farms, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, said on Tuesday the project…

A bill to support the set-up of the Scottish National Investment Bank and help put green investment at its heart has passed stage one, following…

One quarter (25%) of assets managed by UK-headquartered investment management firms are controlled by companies with headquarters in Scotland, according to the annual report of…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc said on Friday it agreed to sell its energy retail arm SSE Energy Services to Ovo Group for an enterprise…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group said on Tuesday its assets under administration (AUA) increased 6.9% year-on-year to £15.3 billion as it published results for the six months ended…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Wednesday it will cut energy bills for customers on its standard tariff from October 1 — with prices falling…

Edinburgh-based Aegon UK said on Thursday its total assets administered on behalf of customers hit £173 billion as its Dutch parent firm announced first-half results. Aegon…

Royal London said its assets under management (AUM) hit a record of £130 billion in the first half of the year “due to market growth…

Assets in UK investment trusts have exceeded £200 billion for the first time, reaching a record £200.3 billion on July 31, 2019, according to the…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc has confirmed it is in talks with Ovo Group about the potential sale of its energy retail arm which serves…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc (SLA) said on Wednesday its assets under management and administration rose 5% to £577.5 billion in the first half…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group on Friday gave an update on its assets under administration (AUA) for the three months to June 30, 2019.  Nucleus…

Standard Life Aberdeen plc (SLA) on Wednesday announced details of its settlement with Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) and Scottish Widows in relation to arbitration proceedings…

The number of businesses in Scotland has increased by 46% — or 106,585 –since 1999 when the Scottish Parliament was re-established, according to new research…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc on Thursday reported a 1.2% dip in GB domestic customer accounts and stuck to its full-year targets despite seeing a…

European leaders have agreed on who should fill the top jobs for its main institutions after a marathon summit. France’s Christine Lagarde has been proposed…

Glasgow-based banking group CYBG — owner of Virgin Money, Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and digital brand B — on Wednesday announced three new appointments to…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc said on Wednesday it has created a new, separate, board for its household supply business SSE Energy Services ahead of…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Wednesday its reported profit before tax for the year to March 31, 2019, rose 59% to 1.37 billion, boosted…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc said on Tuesday its assets under management and administration rose 3% to £568.9 billion as at March 31, 2019…

Perth-based energy giant SSE is to cut 444 jobs in its retail business amid tough competition and the introduction of a cap on energy prices….

Almost 30% of shareholders of Glasgow-based media firm STV Group plc voted against the firm’s directors’ renumeration report at the STV AGM on Tuesday. “The company…

Chrysaor Holdings said on Thursday it will acquire ConocoPhillips’ UK oil and gas business for $2.675 billion. The assets being acquired produced 72,000 barrels of…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Thursday it is continuing to work on “future options” for its retail supply arm SSE Energy Services after the…

Planning permission in principle has been granted for a “new town” development including almost 2,000 new homes at Old Craighall, Musselburgh, east of Edinburgh. East…

Assets worth around £1 trillion are moving from London to hubs in the European Union ahead of Brexit, with the number of jobs that could…

UK energy regulator Ofgem said on Tuesday it “is minded” to approve a proposal by SSE’s Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN) to build a…

UPDATE 4 — Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) said on Tuesday it won a legal dispute to stop Scottish Widows parent Lloyds Banking…

UPDATE 4 — Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc unveiled a boardroom overhaul on Wednesday as it reported disappointing 2018 results that showed its…

Scotland’s Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell has warned that a “no deal” Brexit could cost Scotland about 100,000 jobs, more than doubling the unemployment rate.  …

Edinburgh-based Aegon UK — which last year apologised for big problems in the migration of Cofunds clients to Aegon — said on Thursday “significant strides” had…

Perth-based energy giant SSE on Friday cut its full-year profit forecast as the suspension of payments from a back-up power scheme hurt its income.  A…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Friday it agreed to sell a 49.9% stake in its Stronelairg and Dunmaglass wind farms for about £635 million…

Aberdeen-based engineering and oil services giant Wood plc on Monday announced further progress with its $200m non-core asset disposal programme. In December, Wood agreed the…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group Limited on Monday published an update on its assets under administration (AUA) in respect of the 12-month period to…

Edinburgh Airport has recorded the busiest ever year for a Scottish airport with more than 14 million people passing through its doors in 2018. A…

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Scotland will be able to access more than £100 million to help them expand and access investment through the…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Friday its subsidiary Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN Transmission) has completed the new £1 billion Caithness-Moray electricity transmission…

Figures released on Monday show more than 7.3 million customer journeys were recorded on Edinburgh Trams in 2018 — an increase of 10% on 2017….

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc said on Friday it agreed to sell a 50% share of its SSE Enterprise Telecoms business (SSEET) to Infracapital for up…

UPDATE 2 — The proposed merger of Perth-based energy giant SSE’s retail unit with Innogy subsidiary Npower was scrapped on Monday with the companies saying they were “unable…

Grangemouth refinery operator Ineos confirmed on Sunday it is in talks with ConocoPhillips to acquire its assets in the North Sea — with industry analysts saying…

The UK Government’s proposed Brexit deal is “essentially dead” because of “self-imposed draconian red lines,” according to the Scottish Government’s Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell….

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc said on Wednesday “there is now some uncertainty” as to whether the merger of SSE’s retail unit with Innogy subsidiary Npower can be…

Perth-based energy giant SSE plc said late on Thursday it is in talks with Germany’s Innogy SE about potential changes to the terms of the merger…

There were an estimated 345,915 private sector businesses operating in Scotland as at March 2018 — representing a decrease of 8,830 businesses since March 2017…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group Plc on Friday published a third-quarter trading update which showed assets under administration up 14% to £14.7 billion. However, net flows…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority CMA said on Wednesday it decided that the proposed merger between SSE Retail (SSE) and Npower can proceed, following a…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Tuesday it is exercising its pre-emption right in the sale of Fluor Ltd.’s 50% share in Seagreen Wind Energy…

North Yorkshire-based power company Drax Group is in talks to buy a number of ScottishPower assets as it continues to diversify away from coal-burning generation. Drax said…

Shares of Perth-based energy giant SSE fell about 8% on Wednesday after it said in a trading update it expects its adjusted operating profit for the…

Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group Limited on Tuesday announced its inaugural set of interim results as a quoted company, with period end assets under administration rising…

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Thursday it has provisionally cleared the merger of SSE Retail and Npower after an in-depth review. Perth-based energy giant SSE…

The 1.5 million passenger barrier has been broken for the first time ever at a Scottish airport as Edinburgh Airport recorded its busiest ever month…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) said on Tuesday its assets under management and administration slipped to £610.1 billion in the first half of 2018…

UPDATE 4 — RBS said on Friday it is writing to “all remaining eligible UK customers” to provide three months’ notice that the complaints process…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said in a trading statement ahead of its AGM that a combination of “dry, still and warm weather” and persistently high…

Energy regulator Ofgem said on Thursday that Perth-based energy giant SSE has paid £190,000 in compensation to customers over failures following its withdrawal of a…

SSE plc and innogy SE have appointed Gordon Boyd as chief financial officer designate for the new independent British energy supply and services company they…

Energy regulator Ofgem said Perth-based energy giant SSE has agreed to pay £1 million to Ofgem’s consumer redress fund “after providing some pre-payment meter (PPM)…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Wednesday it would raise its standard electricity and gas prices — leading to a 6.7% increase on average to a…

Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Friday its adjusted profit before tax fell 6% to £1.45 billion for the year to March 31 amid “complex challenges” and…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said it invested more than £44 million in two strategic transactions that increase its total residential assets under management in the…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has referred the proposed merger of Perth-based SSE Retail and Npower for an in-depth investigation “after…