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A consultation has been launched over Government proposals to allow savers planning for retirement to take up to £500 tax-free from their pension pots to pay for financial advice.

A building merchant sales manager who embezzled more than £73,000 from his former employer has been jailed for a year.

Jim Findlay Lombard, the asset finance arm of Royal Bank of Scotland, has announced the appointment of Jim Findlay to its board.

Tom McEntegart TLT acted for UKAR on the transfer of title on approximately 90,000 mortgages securities UK-wide. The transfer of title was part of a wider transaction, which was the biggest of its kind for UKAR and included the sale of £13 billion of assets to Cerberus, with £3.3 billion of these

Fettes College, Edinburgh. (Image: Kim Traynor) Parents of private school leavers in 2016 who started Primary 1 in 2004 will have paid an average total cost of £128,529 in fees, according to the latest research by Bank of Scotland Private Banking.

Some payday lenders are still failing to carry out basic checks to make sure borrowers can afford to pay back their loans, new research by the Citizens Advice Bureau has uncovered.

Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands.

Gross mortgage borrowing in the UK during July hit £12.6 billion, a year-on-year rise of 6 per cent, according to latest data from the British Bankers Association.

Roger Jenkins, the man credited with saving Barclays at the height of the financial crisis and once touted as the richest British banker in Britain, is set to get into the dope game.

UK freelancers and micro-businesses still need more information about the government’s plans to make tax digital, according to new research by Edinburgh-based cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent.

Lawrence Tomlinson RBS is facing yet more legal action – this time over the activities of its controversial Global Restructuring Group.

A post-Brexit survey of Scottish SMEs by PwC has found that Scottish firms fear costs will rise during the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. While the thoughts of Scottish businesses largely mirrored the rest of the UK, some differences stood out:

Pictured (l-r): Gregor Townsend, Douglas McCrea and Alan Archibald McCrea Financial Services has celebrated 15 years of supporting the best of sport in Glasgow with a glittering event in the city.

Claire Raftery, Claire Thomas, Zoe McDonnell, Iain Buchanan and Victoria Anderson BLM, an insurance and risk law specialist, has announced 12 partner promotions and 33 associate promotions. The promotions are spread across all six of the firm’s business streams, with nine in claims solutions, 17 i

New figures have revealed that last month saw Edinburgh Airport register the highest number of passengers for a Scottish airport on record.