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Books that offer financial advice have enduring appeal because they speak to readers’ emotions in a way that get-rich-quick schemes cannot, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found.

Scottish businesses owners remain "hostile to the idea of Brexit", accountants and financial advisers French Duncan have said after a new survey showed two thirds of Scottish businesses don't believe they will benefit from Brexit. Just over eight per cent of businesses said they thought their busine

A financial comparison platform is encouraging higher education students in Scotland to apply for its new fintech scholarship – provided they aren’t studying finance or computer science.

Lucy O’carroll Standard Life Aberdeen’s chief economist (SLA) is to leave the Edinburgh-based financial giant after 13 years to take up a newly created role at the new the new Scottish Exchequer at the Scottish Government.

Jo Douglas Jo Douglas, Financial Planner at Brewin Dolphin in Edinburgh, explores whether a generation caricatured as idle are actually facing an entire lifetime of toil

A no-deal Brexit would have "horrific" consequences for the Scottish financial sector, according to experts briefing Westminster's Scottish affairs committee. Alastair Ross of the Association of British Insurers told MPs that financial transactions currently carried out in Europe by UK firms could b

Former Muirfield Contracts chairman John Stodart has been disqualified as a director after he was found to have taken more than £880,000 from the company as it faced financial ruin.

Neil Greene Neil Greene, Senior Consultant – Financial Services, HRC Recruitment

To mark six months since acquisition, Armstrong Watson Accountants, Business and Financial Advisers presented their newly refurbished Blythswood Square office to clients and business partners at a special Gin Tasting experience on Thursday.

George Watt STV Group has announced that chief financial officer, George Watt will be leaving the company on 31 March 2019 to pursue a non-executive career following 20 years with the media company. STV said he will continue to serve on the firm's board and work closely with chief executive, Simon P

Andrew Howie Edinburgh has topped a list of the most vibrant places in Scotland, according to business and financial adviser Grant Thornton UK.

Andrew Bailey Andrew Bailey, chief executive the Financial Conduct Authority, has restated his defence of the City watchdog’s lack of legal action taken against Royal Bank of Scotland and its top personnel over their treatment of small business, despite the behaviour already being condemned by the

FinTech Scotland, the organisation established to "achieve critical mass" in the sector by encouraging financial innovation, collaboration and inclusion, has announced Prudential as its latest strategic partner.

Scottish Friendly, Scotland’s largest financial mutual, has appointed Alan Rankine as its new chief actuary.

The word fintech has finally been entered into the Merriam-Webster dictionary after after decades of usage having been accepted to have entered the general vocabulary.