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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.

Ged Killen Dr James Goodfellow CBE, the Scots inventor of the ATM and the PIN code has endorsed a bill by Labour MP Ged Killen which seeks to ban ATM charges and prevent financial exclusion.

https://vimeo.com/299664237 More than four in ten 18 – 24 year-olds have shared their online passwords, according to research carried out by Santander.

Darren Cairns (Imiage: Paul Chappells) Edinburgh-based fintech lending platform LendingCrowd has appointed Darren Cairns as the company’s new chief marketing officer (CMO).

Owner of the Ecocleen company Andrew Alleway (right) and David Moncur (left) Operations Commercial cleaning business Tidy Green Clean has taken ownership into the family, after completing a management buy-out with backing from Barclays.

The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce today announced its findings of a recent survey of members regarding the potential introduction of a Transient Visitor Levy (TVL) in Edinburgh.

Andrew Gambier A survey of 1,000 members of the general public by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) reveals auditors are expected to play a crucial role in company safeguarding.

Adrian Grace Edinburgh-based insurance firm Aegon has announced that it has strengthened its existing partnership with Atos, by announcing a 15 year contract to service and administer its Existing Business (non-platform customers).

Jim Tomaney Fife-based fintech global payments and cloud specialist Renovite Technologies will be in New York later this month to present and discuss the growing importance of Quality Assurance in payments technology in the context of increasing regulatory pressure around new financial products.

Maria McConnell Scottish businesses may face serious cash flow problems in the event of a no deal Brexit, according to Scottish accountants and financial advisers French Duncan.

The UK’s addiction to cash ISAs has cost savers £127 billion over the past two decades, according to new research from Scottish Friendly in conjunction with the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

Gregor Duthie As Gourmet Burger Kitchen announces the closure of 17 restaurants in a Company Voluntary Arrangement, the number of empty units on our high streets increases by the day. But when most retail premises are occupied under ten or fifteen year leases, Gregor Duthie, Senior Associate, Real E

https://youtu.be/0uip9Tq3_Wk A new campaign, 'People, Not Profit' has been launched in Scotland, backed by Hollywood star Michael Sheen, to highlight the benefits of joining a credit union.