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St. James’s Place Wealth Management is hosting a free-to-attend event aimed at exploring the ever-increasing career opportunities for women in financial advice and wealth management, by hosting an open evening in Glasgow. The event, which takes place from 6pm at St. James’s Pla

For the first time, consumers under 45 say that fashion will be the number one category for reducing spending in the next 12 months, potentially putting a break on the rapid growth of both online and store-based fast fashion retailers, according to a research by PwC.

Debt charity StepChange has today released figures showing that almost 700,000 people in Scotland have problem debts or are at risk of having them, with thousands struggling with essential household bills – especially Council Tax. In its report, Scotland in the Red, published to

Jennifer Craven Jennifer Craven, lawyer and civil fraud and asset recovery expert at law firm Pinsent Masons, writes on the rise of financial crime in the UK.

Calum Bennie The latest Disposable Income Index (DII) published this week by Scottish Friendly has revealed a stark contrast in the level of confidence between men and women when it comes to money matters, while also highlighting a clear difference in their approach to saving and investing.

Jonathan Davidson The Financial Conduct Authority has announced plans to increase the regulatory pressure on individuals, and not just institutions, by essentially replacing its current Approved Persons Regime through the extending of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) to cover

It once had the eyes of the entire world upon it as man reached for the stars, but now NASA’s famous Mission Control has had to launch a twentieth century financial vehicle in order to preserve it for posterity.

The Scottish public has become so saturated by the jargon associated with personal finances that they’re now confusing popular everyday acronyms for financial terms, according to new research from Barclays.

Dear Editor, I was interested to read Jordan Stodart's piece on peer-to-peer lending.

Scottish margins are being squeezed as rapid growth in employment and wages clashes with weakening pricing power, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Growth Tracker. Scotland was the only nation in the UK outside of Northern Ireland to record payroll growth in July with employment rising

Scotland’s financial services sector celebrated its achievements this week at the 2025 Scottish Financial Services Awards in Edinburgh. The event, sponsored by EY, recognised firms and individuals for their contributions to sustainable growth, innovation, and positive social impact over the pa

Serious bullying and harassment in financial firms qualify as misconduct, under rules confirmed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Previously, it was often unclear when these types of behaviours would amount to a conduct rules breach in a firm other than a bank.

At its 135th AGM held at V&A Dundee, Alliance Trust reported outperforming competitors with a net asset total return of -7.1% and a total shareholder return of -5.8% in a challenging year for global equity markets. The firm's average total shareholder return surpassed its peer group's -23.2% and

Job hunting in some pockets of the Scottish financial sector has become ten times more competitive due to the impact of the pandemic and the evolving needs of businesses, according to Edinburgh-based financial recruitment firm Core-Asset Consulting. The firm predicts an ever-growing pool of applican

Dublin continues to be the most popular choice for Brexit relocation for financial services firms, with 21 firms having committed to relocating staff or operations to the Irish capital since the Referendum, new data from EY has revealed.