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Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank has reported “solid start” to its financial year, despite market conditions remaining competitive and the looming spectre of Brexit.

Scotland’s largest independent insurance broker, Clark Thomson, has been named this year’s winner of the Scottish Financial Services Awards.

David Cowans, group chief executive at Places for People and Jenny Laing, Aberdeen City Council leader A landmark £300m Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) model is the first of its kind to be signed in Scotland and will see homes built across Aberdeen without any government subsidy or grant fundin

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) – in partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland, Financial Inclusion for Scotland and the Money and Pensions Service - has launched a new pilot programme, with the support of the FCA, aimed at improving young people’s access to bank accounts and strengthe

Scottish cities are emerging from the pandemic with renewed priorities, largely focused on fairness, the environment and an improved work-life balance, according to this year’s The Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index.

New research from Royal Bank of Scotland has found that more than half (56%) of 18–34-year-olds in Scotland put a ‘life moment’ (e.g. wedding, graduation, buying their first home) on hold during the last 12 months. Of those with life moments planned, almost a third (31%) said &lsqu

Relocating out of other UK locations, such as London and the South East, is the leading reason for investment in Scotland’s financial services sector, according to a first of its kind market report by EY. The prominence of Scotland within the UK financial services network is apparent, with 29%

Latest annual results for the Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust’s show that the portfolio has grown in value to almost £500 million, largely as a result of focusing on the industrial sector over retail assets. Its annual results show the value of the trust at the

Callum Sinclair, a partner and head of technology at law firm Burness Paull takes a look at the future impact of Brexit on Scotland's financial services sector.  

Scots are amongst the least debt-laden citizens in the UK, despite unsecured borrowing increasing by £23 billion to reach a record level of £270 billion across the land.

Fraser Wilson Fraser Wilson, partner PwC Scotland, reflects on the journey of the Financial Services sector in Glasgow following PwC's most recent Glasgow Powerhouse debate and shares his views on the opportunities that lie ahead.

Kimberley Oliver Thirteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2017.

Tweed Wealth Management has touched down on a recruitment strategy to identify former rugby stars to be trained as high-performance financial planners for their fast-expanding business. The Edinburgh-based company now has three ex-professional rugby players on their team sheet – a winning comb

Finance leaders believe that the labour shortages and supply disruptions British businesses are experiencing now are likely to persist for a year, with no meaningful easing until late 2022 and 2023, according to Deloitte’s UK CFO Survey Q3 2021. The majority of CFOs experienced labour shortage

Irwin Mitchell and Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie have merged. Irwin Mitchell Scotland operates out of Glasgow predominantly in banking and finance and complex personal injury work. Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie specialises in corporate, private client, property, and asset management.