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Julie Scott, chief executive of Standard Life 1825, the financial planning business of Standard Life Aberdeen discusses various aspects of the business in an interview with The Herald. Ms Scott's discussion ranges from the company’s expansion plans to Brexit and how savers are dealing with the

Yesterday, Scottish Financial News reported on the Peebles Media Group fraud case outcome. Today, we publish the full case report which has now become available on our sister publication Scottish Legal News:  A publishing company which sued a former employee for more than £100,000 after s

A multi-million-pound mistake made by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is being blamed for the financial problems which caused the downfall of Rangers Football Club. The Times reported that HMRC has publicly recognised that it claimed too much tax from the club and accordingly, up to £50 millio

A specialist engineering solutions provider which fell into administration earlier this year has set its sights on achieving a £6 million turnover within the next two years after a £750,000 funding facility was provided by Bibby Financial Services (BFS).

Scottish Friendly has announced a "substantial" acquisition of life and pensions policies from Canada Life, increasing the financial mutual's assets under management by £2.4 billion to over £5bn. The completed deal increases Scottish Friendly's number of members by 127,000 to around 700,

RSM's corporate finance team continues to be the most active financial adviser in the Scottish Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) advisory market. The firm advised on 11 M&A deals in Scotland in the first nine months of 2019. This continued strong performance comes against a backdrop of reduced

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has today hailed a “strong” set of financial results amid an “uncertain political and economic landscape”. The fourth-generation family-owned company, founded in 1925, reported a £2.4 million rise in turnover for the year to 30 April

Former Hearts footballer Conrad Balatoni has set up his own financial sector practice, Conrad Balatoni Wealth Management, which is a representative of St James's Place Wealth Management. The new practice, headed by Mr Balatoni, will provide face-to-face wealth management advice to private and corpor

Direct flights between Dundee and London will be extended into 2020 after the UK Government announced it would give the service financial backing.

The largest payday lender in the UK, QuickQuid, has fallen into administration and left more than one million customers facing financial uncertainty. CashEuroNet UK, which operates the QuickQuid and On Stride brands, has stopped lending following the appointment of Grant Thornton as its adminis

Accounts assistant Andrea Gibson embezzled more than £248,000 from Evans Halshaw in Glasgow. Ms Gibson manipulated financial systems to cover 45 transactions made to her personal bank accounts.

Companies are falling short of investors’ expectations for clearer reporting on climate-related issues, according to a new report from the Financial Reporting Council's (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab.

Increased demand for guidance on boardroom governance has seen financial services adviser Malcolm Wood drafted in to a consultancy role with Burness Paull LLP. Mr Wood recently stepped down as group company secretary of Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to that he successfully led the in-house legal and s

Standard Life Aberdeen is to cut up to 70 jobs in its IT department due to outsourcing. Workers at the financial services company were called into a meeting yesterday afternoon and told that the company's IT services would be outsourced to US-headquartered IT services company Cognizent.

Scottish Legal News, the sister publication of Scottish Financial News, yesterday reached 13,005 subscribers to its daily newsletter, underlining its primacy as the leading daily news service for Scotland’s dynamic and fast-changing legal community. Since it’s launch in June 2008,&n