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Sandy Manson Work in Scotland’s central belt is contributing more than half of the year-on-year growth at accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael (JC) as the North Sea downturn continues to bite.

Michael Rogers Liverpool Victoria Group chief executive Michael (Mike) Rogers is to join the board of Royal Bank of Scotland as a non-executive director.

John Swinney Tax specialists across Scotland have reacted to yesterday’s budget announcement that saw finance secretary John Swinney rule out an increase in Scottish income tax when Holyrood gets new financial powers next year.

SFT has helped release £850m of private sector investment into the heart of Edinburgh The funding programme behind a raft of community infrastructure projects has delivered schemes worth £135 million in its latest financial year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for contributions on how regulation is working in relation to the social investment market. Social investment is a term used to describe investments where the aim is to provide a wider social benefit, rather than the primary driver being a purely fina

Royal Bank of Scotland has introduced a range of measures to support its personal and business customers affected by the serious flooding across much of north west England and southern Scotland and ease the financial strain caused. For personal customers, the Edinburgh-based lender and its NatWest s

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.