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Janet Murray Police Scotland will need to find £11 million in funding to break even in the coming financial year, its finance chief has warned.

A decade on from the Brexit referendum, UK Finance has published a report, produced with law firm Freshfields, setting out its vision for the future relationship between the UK and EU in financial services.

A new report, Shaping Young People’s Financial Futures Together, from the Compassion in Financial Services Hub at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, in collaboration with Young Scot, is calling on banks, policymakers and financial providers to overhaul how they design produ

Wbg is advising Scottish tourism and hospitality businesses to consider their financial structure to boost their resilience. With new data from the Scottish Tourism Alliance highlighting a growing vulnerability: more than half of tourism and hospitality businesses have less than three months of cash

A group of MPs has called for a Royal Commission into the United Kingdom's financial conduct regulation, warning against what they describe as a "deregulation agenda" that threatens to weaken consumer protections. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services ha

Customers of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland were left alarmed after a technical fault caused their mobile banking apps to display the transactions of complete strangers. The glitch occurred on the morning of Thursday 12 March, with those affected reporting seeing other people's names, sort cod

The FCA has launched a review into the implications of advanced AI on consumers, retail financial markets and regulators.

Edinburgh law firm Murray Beith Murray has assets of nearly £3.2 million, the firm has revealed in its first-ever published accounts. The private client firm has more than doubled its turnover in the last decade, with revenue up by 10% last year alone, according to financial information publis

Phil Anderson Financial Services is celebrating a landmark October after achieving a record-breaking month for new business and securing a prestigious national award for one of its rising stars.

New research from Scottish Friendly has revealed that younger generations are challenging outdated stereotypes of financial irresponsibility, demonstrating a greater commitment to saving and investing than their older counterparts. The research shows that while a third (31%) of adults are saving les

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA’s) annual report sets out how it has used data and technology to crack down on harm in financial services. Over 1,600 websites suspected of promoting financial services without permission were suspended, removed or blocked in 2024 because of FCA action, a

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will launch a Supercharged Sandbox to help firms experiment safely with AI to support innovation. Through a new collaboration, announced today, firms will have the opportunity to experiment with AI using NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise Soft

Johnston Carmichael has named Bryan Shepka as its new head of financial services, succeeding Ewen Fleming who led the sector for six years. Mr Shepka joined Johnston Carmichael in 2023 as audit partner, bringing extensive experience in the wealth and asset management sector, having worked for 14 yea

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched the public beta of its Digital Reporting Viewer, a new tool designed to improve free access to structured company reporting data. The Viewer enables users to easily view and analyse Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL) files, displa

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is launching a consultation for a second edition of its financial crime standard.