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Music legend Neil Young has announced victory in his bid to have Barclaycard taken off the bill for his upcoming concert with Bob Dylan in London’s Hyde Park after he took issue with the financial giant’s sponsorship of the event. Canadian, Young, 73, had condemned Barclaycard's gre

A luxury holiday lodge and bistro resort in Carse of Gowrie is set to expand after securing a £1 million finance package from HSBC.

Stephen Oates, tax director at French Duncan, warns that business owners should take care that they don't make employees liable for additional tax and National Insurance by giving gifts at Christmas. HMRC has decided to make gifting as complex and thankless as possible to ensure that, regardless of

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.