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Business advisory firm RSM UK has announced the appointment of Connor Agnew and Fiona Duncan as directors in its Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. Mr Agnew, who will now lead RSM's M&A and private equity team in Scotland, joined RSM in 2008 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the firm. Bef

The Serious Fraud Office has seen the collapse of the trial of former senior Tesco executives over a £250m accounting scandal after a High Court judge slammed the SFO’s £10m case, saying it was so weak in certain areas it should not have been brought before a jury. Mr Jus

Wealth manager Charles Stanley has said its decision to open a new office in Aberdeen signals its “serious intentions” to expand north of the border. The firm said the team at its new office on the Granite City’s Carden Place will work with colleagues at its Edinburgh operation.

Today the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published findings on how mortgage lenders treat customers who have long-term mortgage arrears and provide forbearance to affected customers. The FCA had previously identified that there was a trend of increasing long-term arrears cases, whilst the num

Scottish business owners are missing out on tax savings and encouraging employee ownership, according to accountants and financial advisers French Duncan LLP. The firm was commenting in the week when another hotel (Priory Hotel in Beauly) utilised an employee ownership trust (EOT) to transfer owners

By Steve Tigar, CEO of Money Dashboard  

Finance industry analysts in Germany have predicted that Frankfurt currently stands to benefit from the creation of 10,000 new jobs in the city as a result of Brexit.

Royal Bank of Scotland, which is still more than 60 per cent owned by the UK taxpayer, has said it is investigating complaints from a whistle-blower that an employee was appointed to a top role because he is a friend of a senior staff member. A man appointed team leader on the troubled Amethyst proj

Following publication by HM Treasury and the Bank of England of their Brexit economic forecasts last week, KPMG’s restructuring practice has said it is seeing a flurry of enquiries from organisations who are looking to take action to mitigate a significant ‘working capital crunch’

Nearly four in ten people in Scotland (38 per cent) don’t know what they will do with their pension pots when they retire and there is widespread uncertainty over plans for later life, according to Brewin Dolphin’s latest Family Wealth Report. The research, which looks at the opportuniti

Advisers are increasingly optimistic about the future of the industry with growing numbers predicting expansion and happy to recommend financial advice as a career, new research from Prudential shows. Its 2018 Adviser Barometer found more than two out of five (41 per cent) advisers an

UK bank IT failures have more than doubled over the past year, according to new data compiled by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Mike Stirton The proportion of applicants failing employment background checks has nearly doubled since 2015, according to research by Core-Asset Verify, the Edinburgh-based provider of vetting and contract services for Scotland’s financial sector.

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has announced plans to offer its British staff free nannies when their children are ill and carers for elderly parents in order to keep them at their tasks.

Glasgow-based football club Rangers have cleared a £3 million credit facility with financiers taking a club car park, a derelict ticket office and stadium TV screens off the hook.