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Royal Bank of Scotland’s new business programme aimed at driving small business growth is to come to Aberdeen next Tuesday (February 19).

Complying with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations is high on the agenda for the accountancy and legal professions, but the majority are worried about becoming a target for criminals looking to exploit their professional skills and services to enable money laundering, new research has revealed.

A group of the UK’s most promising tech entrepreneurs are heading to Silicon Valley this April for a week-long accelerate programme hosted by Edinburgh-based FutureX.Now in its sixth year, the Silicon Valley Accelerate programme gives founders unprecedented access to top investors and business

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has promoted Colin Anderson and Andrew Whiteley from Maven’s specialist property investment team to partnership positions. The firm said the strengthening of its partnership base reflects its continued commit

Construction work on more than 300 build-to-rent apartments in Glasgow city centre is set to start by the end of this year after Legal & General exchanged contracts on the project. The pensions and investment firm will forward fund Drum Property Group to deliver 324 apartment

Last year saw the average pension fund post its biggest losses in a calendar year since the financial crisis in 2008.

As they prepare to be grilled by MPs today, the heads of Deloitte, KPMG, EY and PwC have written to the Commons business committee to plead for the competition watchdog to postpone a planned overhaul of the audit market until the completion of a separate review by Donald Brydon, chairman of the Lon

Santander has removed itself from the shortlisted lenders vying for a share of the £275 million incentivised switching scheme for SME customers established under the terms of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bail out agreement.

Edinburgh’s LendingCrowd has been named as the only Scottish company to join the prestigious Upscale programme, now in its fourth year. LendingCrowd, the fintech lending platform, is one of 30 fast-growing startups selected for the Tech Nation programme from over 100 applications. The LendingC

The European Commission has fined payments giant Mastercard €573m ($650m, £504m) for anti-competitive behaviour. The regulator said Mastercard had be admonished for preventing retailers from utilising cheaper banking services outwith their home country.

A Dundee accountant, who received a life-changing cancer diagnosis while pregnant with her son, has thanked her ‘incredibly generous' colleagues for their year-long fundraising campaign. Paula McAllister, senior manager with EQ Chartered Accountants in Dundee and mum to one-year-old

Growth or value? That has been the question on many investors’ minds as markets took a turbulent turn through the autumn months. They represent the two main schools of thought when it comes to investing and investors often try to lump stocks into one or other of the two categories. Of course,

Despite having the largest listing of the year in the final quarter, UK IPO activity in 2018 fell as companies weighed up Brexit uncertainty, according to EY’s latest IPO Eye report. 2018 saw a total of 79 IPOs listing in London - 44 on the Main Market and 35 on AIM - raising £9.5bn.

UK household debt rose sharply over 2018, with unsecured debt (debt other than mortgages) reaching new highs.

A city banker who was once sacked from his job at Aberdeen Asset Management has been jailed for a minimum of 19 years after being found guilty of killing a blonde socialite living a secret double life as an escort.