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Deloitte has bolstered its senior team in Scotland with the appointment of seven new directors.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has announced plans to pay its first dividend since it was bailed out by the UK taxpayer to the tune of £46 billion a decade ago.

Ross Foley PwC has bolstered its Scottish technology risk and data team with the appointment of three new directors and a senior manager.

Keith Boyes, Martyn Paterson, Fraser Porter and Andrew Reynolds of AAB Wealth Anderson Anderson & Brown Wealth Ltd (AAB Wealth), one of Scotland’s leading independent financial planning firms, has announced a £100 million increase in assets under advice (AUA) over the last twelve months, taki

Michael Thomson Company voluntary arrangements (CVAS) are very much in vogue. Why? Growth of online shopping, Brexit uncertainty, increased export costs, drop in consumer confidence and spend, increases in business rates, rising labour costs and long-term inflexible lease costs. All of these been ci

Craiglockhart campus Prospective students will have the chance to combine digital skills with the finance world after Edinburgh Napier launched a new dedicated Masters degree in Fintech.

Nationwide is launching a £50 million venturing fund that will see the mutual invest and partner with early stage start-ups who are exploring innovative products and services that could provide real benefits for the Society’s members.

Catherine MacPherson Catherine MacPherson, a solicitor at Morton Fraser, considers issues on the horizon for the cash and digital payments regimes

Demand for permanent IT professionals in Scotland rose by 7 per cent year-on-year to April 2018 according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

Left to right: Professor Lorna Milne, St Andrews University; David Brown, PwC Scotland's Government leader; Professor Charlie Jeffery, Edinburgh University; and Claudette Kennedy, Skills Development Scotland Global accounting and business services giant PwC, has joined forces with the Universities o

Paula Speirs, Neil Coutts, Gareth Hann, Paul McGinty, Eilidh McGowan KPMG has invested in talent across its tax, audit and consulting teams in Scotland by announcing six new directors.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has today announced that it has reached a civil settlement in principle with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to resolve its investigation into RBS’s issuance and underwriting of toxic US residential mortgage-backed securities prior to the financial crisis betw

Keith Brown The new Scottish National Investment Bank will be operational next year and provide £2 billion in capital over ten years, MSPs have been told.

AAB's Callum Gray, Laura Campbell, Charlotte Stewart, Ian Campbell, Heather Brown, Andrew Blair and Graeme Allan Accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced the promotion of Callum Gray to director, as well as the promotion of five members of their management team to senio

Sandy Manson CA Sandy Manson CA has been appointed President of ICAS, the global professional body for Chartered Accountants, succeeding Sir Brian Souter CA.