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Tim Whewall BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme has investigated a "mind-bogglingly" complex financial scam which has seen Europe's poorest country robbed of $1 billion – with the trail leading to an ex-council flat in Edinburgh and fraudsters who have availed themselves of the Scottish Limited P

Peter Muir The Scottish Government must act on the responses to its consultation on the business rates valuation appeals system or lose investment to England and Wales, according to the Scottish Business Ratepayers Group (SBRG).

UK companies are invoicing their customers and receiving payment faster than at any time since the aftermath of the financial crisis, according to a review of UK working capital performance published by PwC. But further improvements could still be made – according to the report, Scottish firms hav

L-R: Muhammad Yunus, Omar Shaikh (IFC), James Angus (Thomson Reuters), Chris Tait (IFC) and Tirad Mahmoud (ADIB) The Scottish-based Islamic Finance Council UK (IFC) saw off competition from over 200 organisations from across the globe to win the $100,000 Industry Development Award at the Ethical Fin

Katie Murray Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed Katie Murray to the new role of director of finance, reporting to chief financial officer Ewen Stevenson.

The companies working with Scottish Enterprise through its account management service generated total turnover growth of £1.3billion in the course of the last financial year, according to latest figures. The data revealed that strong growth was recorded particularly in the sectors of Technologies &

Around 700 jobs could be at risk at Falkirk Council after the local authority looks to save £45 million over the next three years. The cuts may lead to 200 jobs being lost in this financial year, 300 the following year and another 200 in 2018/19 from a workforce of over 7239.

The rush to buy shares in Lloyds Bank in what Chancellor eorge Osborne yesterday labelled Britain’s “biggest privatisation in 20 years" is well underway after 62,500 people registered an interest on a government website just hours after Mr Osborne announced the sell-off. Shares worth at least £

The UK Treasury has today announced that it plans to sell shares worth at least £2 billion in bailed-out Lloyds Bank to private investors. The Treasury said that the government would sell the 12 per cent stake that remains of the 43 per cent of the bank that it took on at the height of the financia

Arlene Cairns Dundee-based Alliance Trust Savings has announced that Arlene Cairns has joined the company as its new finance director.

Toby Strauss Toby Strauss, the chief executive of Edinburgh-based pensions and life insurance giant Scottish Widows is to step down after four years in the post.

The number of complaints about current accounts shot up by nearly one third in the first half of 2015, according to latest figures released by the Financial Conduct Authority. The data also shows that pensions-related complaints jumped by around one fifth as the new retirement freedoms were brought

Brian Sutherland Holyrood-owned Prestwick Airport has announced the appointment of a new finance director.

Edinburgh-based accountants Chiene + Tait have urged Scottish property businesses to make sure their lending arrangements are fully up to speed with recent changes to the financial reporting framework, which governs the basis of how companies prepare their accounts. A Chiene + Tait spokesperson said