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Rachel Khiara Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed legal specialist Rachel Khiara as a partner in its growing legal practice.

Phil Grady Glasgow-based fintech company Castlight Financial is targeting international expansion after triumphing at Deloitte’s inaugural Disrupt the Enterprise event in Scotland.

Donald McNaught Johnston Carmichael has developed an innovative online tool to help self-employed NHS workers operating as a limited company to protect their income.

Ross McEwan The heat is being turned up on bosses at Royal Bank of Scotland ahead of the lender’s AGM next week after two more investor advisory firms joined calls for shareholders to reject the board’s remuneration policy.

Edinburgh has been pipped at the post to be ranked second in Deutsche Bank’s global quality of life survey.

The owner of Kilmarnock-based Blackwood Plant Hire has sold the business to the company’s management team supported by Royal Bank of Scotland.

Rod Ashley Britain's only independent savings bank has finally closed, as Airdrie Savings Bank (ASB) shuts its last two branches in Bellshill and Coatbridge today.

Ian Ferguson Ian Ferguson, leader of Aviva's Perth office, is set to retire after a career spanning 38 years with Aviva.

Gerry Cockburn Experienced finance director Gerry Cockburn has joined Boyd Legal – bringing with him more than 25 years’ experience. Previously head of finance at the Faculty of Advocates and having held key roles at Gilson Gray and Capita-owned Optima Legal Services, Mr Cockburn will now be fi

Christopher Woolard Barclays has emerged as Britain’s most complained about bank following the publication of new Financial Conduct Authority data which shows the total number of complaints reported by firms in the second half of 2016 was 3.04 million.

UK investor sentiment has dipped again in April, slumping by 1.65 per cent to 4.25 per cent.

Ross Wilson By Ross Wilson is director and head of east agency at the Edinburgh commercial department of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors

Fraud affected two in every five people aged over 55 living in Glasgow last year, according to new research.

A government department has applied to join a class action suit currently representing shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland who are among those the still state-owned bank is alleged to have misled in 2008 prior to its £45 billion taxpayer bailout.

Workloads for small and medium-sized construction firms in Scotland rose faster than at any time since the 2007 financial crisis, a new survey has revealed.