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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched an investigation into KPMG and PwC over the audits of Eddie Stobart Logistics plc.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced another proposed package of measures targeting motor finance and high-cost credit agreements, which include: high-cost short-term credit (including payday loans), buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), rent-to-own (RTO) and pawnbroking.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a series of potential remedies to tackle concerns about general insurance pricing. In an interim report of its market study into the pricing of home and motor insurance, the FCA found that competition is not working well for all consumers in these

Public financial confidence has fallen to reach its lowest level in three months, according to the household finance index by IHS Markit.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its largest ever retail fine to Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group for failing to treat their customers fairly when handling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) complaints. The FCA slapped the still partly state-owned lender with a £117 million pena

As Scottish Financial News publishes the last edition of 2021 today, we round up what has caught the attention of our readers over the last 12 months.

The chief financial officer of a company worth nearly £23 billion accidentally phoned the CEO while discussing plans to oust him, according to reports.

Aberdeen-based financial advisory specialists Hutcheon Mearns has strengthened its team with a trio of appointments.  The move comes due to a growing demand for bespoke resource support from practice-trained accountants who can support short or long-term project requirements.

Glasgow-based financial services firm XFS Limited has appointed Margo Kidd as its new chief operations officer. Ms Kidd has over 15 years of senior management experience, including a decade of strategic development and plan execution on a UK basis. She also has 32 years experience in collections.

New research by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that 2.6 million people in the UK have purchased cryptoassets at some point, marking a 1.1 million increase in buyers since last year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that credit card, store card, catalogue credit and personal loan customers will be allowed to defer repayments for a further three months. 

The majority of Scottish Financial News readers want to undertake more home working in the future, according to the results of our recent survey. 

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland and The Mortgage Business a total of £64,046,800 for failures in relation to their handling of mortgage customers in payment difficulties or arrears.

Edinburgh-based financial services provider Aegon UK has posted full-year earnings of £122 million for 2019, a £12m rise from 2018. The firm's new boss, Mike Holliday-Williams, said that the changes implemented within the company since his appointment in October 2018 have meant that the

Tunnocks' financial results have revealed that the company has sold £60 million of products for the first time.