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The huge scale of the financial waste of Scotland’s long-term empty homes has been exposed by a body tasked with bringing them back into use. The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) has calculated that the owners of the country’s 34,000 empty homes are losing out on an average of £7,500 a y

Scottish businesses are predicted to face further financial pressures with commercial rents expected to rise further over the next 12 months, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) warned today. The RICS UK Commercial Market Survey, Q3 2015, reveals that businesses within the office and

Yvonne Dunn, partner and financial services technology expert at Pinsent Masons, discusses the opportunities made available to businesses through open finance. A 10-year road map strategy published for Scotland’s fintech hub has highlighted “open finance” data as a key theme.

Wall Street clearing houses will be able to provide central clearing services in the EU following a decision which financial experts are calling a blow to the City of London. The European Commission has adopted an equivalence decision determining that the United States Securities and Exchange Commis

Martyn Paterson, financial planner at AAB Wealth, discusses the intricacies of ESG investing. June 5 2020, marked World Environment Day, with World Oceans Day, National Bike Week, and World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought all taking place in the same month. What can they teach us about how

Kerrie Murray has been promoted from chief financial officer to chief executive of manufacturing firm Pryme Group. The chartered accountant joined Pryme Group, which has offices in Dundee, Aberdeenshire, North Shields, Lancaster and Altrincham, in June 2018, as CFO, after having worked more than 10

Andrew Dines, chartered financial planner at AAB Wealth, discusses why the impact of coronavirus on the stock market need not alter your long-term goals. With the UK in lockdown and pressure on the NHS mounting, COVID-19 is set to exert an enormous influence on our lives over the coming months.

Alistair Greig, the financial services chief behind a £13 million Ponzi scheme, has been jailed for 14 years. 

UK Finance has published comprehensive guidance for self-isolating financial services customers seeking to pay for essential goods.

Manufacturing output expectations dropped to their weakest since the financial crisis, as the COVID-19 outbreak gained pace in the UK and Europe, according to the latest CBI monthly industrial trends survey conducted between 25 February and 13 March.

Accountant, business and financial advisor Armstrong Watson has acquired Eura Audit Northallerton. The merger took effect on 3rd February and comes after Eura Audit partner, Peter Tarren, made the decision to retire and carefully sought a practice that would provide a good cultural fit for his

Stonewall has released its Top 100 Employers 2020 listing with financial organisations featuring making the cut.

Scotland’s growing financial technology sector has become the first in the UK, and only the third in Europe, to receive formal accreditation as a cluster of excellence. The European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA) looked at 36 economic indicators before making the award.

The Pensions Regulator has fined the retirement scheme of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in a rare instance of one watchdog issuing a fine to another.

Andrew Bailey, the current chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has been appointed as the next governor of the Bank of England. Mr Bailey will become the 121st governor of the bank on 16 March 2020.