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Buying a house as a couple shows a lot of commitment, both romantic and financial, and for some this can be daunting. Just ask the people of Cardiff, who, according to new research, wait the longest before buying property with their partner.

An innovative Fife-based business which manufactures and sells pioneering eco-friendly cleaning products is set for expansion after securing financial support from HSBC UK.

None of Scotland’s league football clubs are showing serious signals of financial distress, and average attendances are also on the rise, according to football finance experts who report annually on key indicators of business distress in the game.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Action Fraud are warning the public to be wary of investment scams carried out via bogus online trading platforms after releasing data which shows victims lost over £27 million in 2018/19 to the cons. The City regulator's warning comes as sca

The rise of financial technology has long come under fire for alienating the generation of baby boomers and and their parents who lack the tech savvy necessary to participate in what has been a revolution for the banking industry. But now, new research has revealed that one of the latest forms of fi

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Chartered Bank £102,163,200 for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) breaches in two higher risk areas of its business. The penalty is the second largest financial penalty for AML controls failings ever imposed by the FCA.

A cocaine addicted financial controller has admitted embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds for a second time to fund her lavish lifestyle. Kerryanne Clarke from Coatbridge pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to taking more than £250,000 from Bell Building Projects in Govan using company

The FBI has placed a Scottish businessman on its infamous "most wanted" list for allegedly defrauding customers and financial institutions in the US.

Perth-based energy giant SSE has agreed to sell a 16-megawatt onshore wind farm in Scotland to GE Financial Services, a unit of General Electric Co. Under the deal, GE will own and operate the 10-turbine project near Hawick when construction is finished in the first half, Perth, Scotland-based SSE s

CBI chief executive Rain Newton-Smith will today urge the Chancellor to avoid adding to the tax burden on the financial services sector, insisting it would be an "own goal for our competitiveness." Ms Newton-Smith will warn that taxes in the UK are already higher than in other global centres and ris

Beeks Financial Cloud Group, the Renfrewshire-based markets technology enabler, has reported a record performance driven by momentum across its product range. The company, which is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market, has also announced positive first quarter momentum.

Scottish crypto firm Zumo has joined forces with cloud-native core banking platform SaaScada to provide UK financial institutions a "ready-built" route into regulated crypto services. Zumo, will handle the crypto side, from custody and trading to Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering checks o

Edinburgh fund manager Walter Scott & Partners has reported a 17% drop in turnover for the 2025 financial year, reflecting a 19% fall in assets under management from £72bn to £58bn. Chair Richard Watt noted that performance “was materially below benchmark levels” and said

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted it has to be "careful" over proposed changes to the listing rules following the recent campaigns by US activist investor Saba Capital Management. The regulator said it was looking into reforms to help manage conflicts of interest involving activist

The Financial Conduct Authority has launched a probe into the treatment of Epstein whistleblower Simon Andriesz after he took his own life. The British Banker highlighted alleged links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Transparency Task Force co