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Alex Feechan Tri Capital, Investing Women Angels and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, have backed Scottish Borders-based brand Findra, with a second-round investment of £250,000 to develop the business beyond its early roots of women’s cycling apparel.

Royal Bank of Scotland has denied claims that it trained staff in how to forge customers' signatures, The Times reports. Bank Confidential, a new organisation which aims to root out unacceptable practices in the big banks, said it had become aware of allegedly fraudulent practices in the bank from w

Alan and Gina Miller (Image c/o SCM Direct) SCM Direct, the wealth management firm founded by Gina Miller, the campaigner who came to national prominence through her legal crusade to ensure the protection of the role of parliament in the triggering of article 50 to leave the EU, has presented the Fi

Royal Bank of Scotland has been forced into backing down on previous denials and issued a “sincere apology” after admitting its staff had indeed forged a customer’s signature in order to take more money from them.

https://vimeo.com/268741850 Legislation to make shared parental leave compulsory will be needed to help close the gender pay gap, according to a report on the workforce of the future by Scottish legal firm Burness Paull.

Paul Christensen Previse, the fintech firm founded in Glasgow in 2016 which counts Scottish Enterprise among its financial backers, has raised US$7 million (£5.5 million) in a Series A funding round to be used to help scale Previse’s payment technology business to meet demand with a number of sta

The number of Employment Tribunal claims in Scotland has increased fivefold in the past six months following the scrapping of fees for bringing cases.

The century- old Merrill Lynch brand is to disappear from the world of investment banking. Most of its operations will be run under the shorter name of Merrill after a decision by owner Bank of America.

Financial services firms reported 819 cyber incidents to the Financial Conduct Authority in 2018, a huge rise on the 69 incidents reported in 2017, according to new data obtained by RSM under a freedom of information request.

Bank of Scotland has appointed a new head of commercial banking, responsible for all the bank’s business clients in Scotland. Alasdair Gardner is returning to Bank of Scotland after a successful three-year secondment with Lloyds Banking Group as its head of global corporates in North America.

The Scottish Building Society (SBS) has joined the Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). SFE supports Scotland's financial services sector and includes organisations such as HSBC, Investe, Jpmorgan, KPMG and Lloyds Banking Group. It represents an industry that employs over 160,000 people in Scot

Fintech company PolyDigi Tech Limited is set to open a technology hub in Edinburgh after securing a £200,000 Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) award from Scottish Enterprise. The move is set to create 16 new jobs all paying the real living wage.

Craig Baker, chairman of the Alliance Trust investment committee and Global CIO at Willis Towers Watson, discusses what the financial sector can learn from past economic crises.  Alliance Trust was founded in 1888 and been tested before in many major crises before the COVID-

More employees will become owners of the companies they work for as firms seek to ensure greater resilience in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, according to Lindsays lawyer Douglas Roberts. Mr Roberts has advised on more than 10 Employee Ownership (EO) deals which have been completed in the

Eggplant, the software testing business developed by Edinburgh-based entrepreneur George MacIntosh, has been acquired by Santa Rosa, California-headquartered Keysight Technologies, the New York Stock Exchange-listed tech group for $330 million. Eggplant has been majority-owned by global investm