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Alistair Darling Former Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of the 'Better Together' campaign, Alistair Darling, is to join investment bank Morgan Stanley’s board of directors.

UK bankers and market watchers now place fears about cyber crime at the top of a list of 24 possible risks to banks, a view slightly at odds with many countries around the world which rate the economic environment as posing the greatest risk. Banks are seen as prime targets for financial crime, part

Alasdair Cummings Scots lawyers Lindsays have said it has no intention of merging with an English firm but is nevertheless open to opportunities as the Scottish legal sector continues to consolidate.

PwC has found that over the last seven days, 62 per cent of 100 high street retailers were holding sales or advertising promotions in their shop window. This is up four percentage points on the previous week, and on par with the same time last year (63 per cent), but far from the level seen in 2008

David Nicol Investment manager Brewin Dolphin, which has more than 100 staff, including 47 ­investment managers and ­financial planners based in Edinburgh, is targeting expansion after increasing adjusted pre-tax profit by 7 per cent to reach £62.2 million over the past 12 months.

Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Standard Chartered, has emerged as the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders following a Bank of England stress test. It is the second time the central bank carried out its annual test of the UK's biggest lenders in order to gauge their resilience in the face

A new app aimed at changing the way people invest in SMEs has been launched by an award-winning Edinburgh-based peer-to-business lending platform. In a new development for the burgeoning alternative finance sector LendingCrowd, which has already helped to facilitate almost £4m worth of funding for

David RitchieFfie-based shopfitting and interiors group Europa has announced plans to make 50 workers redundant at its Fife headquarters over the next month.

Bill Duguid Property consultant Ryden has posted £12.5m turnover and profits of £5.48m for the year ended April 30, representing an 18% increase in fees and a 49 per cent increase in profits over the last three years.

Data from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has revealed global defaults on debts have reached the second highest level in a decade. According to S&P, 99 companies this year have defaulted on their debt.

A wife has achieved nationwide notoriety after getting revenge on her cheating partner by selling their home from under his feet while he was away on a business trip. Builder Craig Arnolds returned to the Nuneaton property with his wife Laura, 42, from New York to find the locks changed and six stud

Eileen Rowland Eileen Rowand, head of revenue & shared services at Fife Council, has been appointed executive director finance & corporate services at the authority.

Andy Hornby The long-awaited PRA/FCA report into the failure of HBOS has suggested that up to 10 former executives of the lender that had to be bailed out by the UK taxpayer at a cost of £25 billion at the height of the financial crisis should be banned from working in the City.

Matt McGrath Matt McGrath, the young student who won a competition with his ground-breaking reinvention of a medical device used in every major surgical operation has finally sold the business he founded 14 years ago for a staggering £72 million.

Stephen Robertson Data Conversion Systems, a Cambridge-based pioneer in consumer digital audio equipment, has taken the top place in Britain's first ever Intellectual Property (IP) league table, compiled by Metis Partners.