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George Bull is Chair of Professional Services Group at Baker Tilly There was once a poster at Watford Junction railway station, just outside London. Advertising the local shopping centre, it read ‘Little blue dress, little blue dress, my life would be complete if only I could have that little blue

Eileen Blackburn is partner and head of business recovery at FD Debt Solutions, and chair of R3’s Scottish Technical Committee Amongst other measures, the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act, which comes into force in April 2015, seeks to ensure appropriate debt relief and management and inc

Sir Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life, has spoken out on the prospect of a British exist from the European Union. Speaking yesterday at City Week, a conference on how to maintain Britain's competitiveness as a financial centre, Sir Gerry (pictured) left littl

The average cost of renting a Scottish property has risen just 1.1 per cent in the last year. The figure announced by Your Move represents the slowest increase in almost two years.

The FTSE 100 Index climbed above the 7,000 mark on Friday for the first time in its history. It came as world markets were buoyed by a small recovery in the price of oil as well as hopeful signs over the Greek debt crisis.

KPMG has made a number of senior external appointments across its Scottish offices. Russell Irwin has joined KPMG’s Edinburgh office as a director supporting Sam Subesinghe leading the IT advisory and technology risk team in Scotland, as part of KPMG’s management consulting function.

Scots are increasingly more confident about their ability to repay debts according to PwC’s latest report on the consumer credit industry. The ‘big four’ firm’s ‘Precious Plastic: How Britons fell back in love with borrowing’ report found that only just over one in ten are worried about

Flaws in the insolvency system have been exposed by the collapse of delivery firm City Link, according to two groups of MPs. A joint report from two parliamentary committees has concluded that the current system is too heavily skewed in favour of investors over workers.

Transparency, reputation and trust are becoming the most important factors influencing consumers when choosing wealth management providers, according to new a TransUnion study. The company surveyed 1,000 US consumers with at least $20,000 in investable assets to discover how they chose who to hire t

Canaccord Wealth has snapped up the front office teams and client assets of Midlands-based EFG Harris Allday. EFG Harris Allday, a UK based wealth management business, operates as a subsidiary of EFG Private Bank, part of EFG International, which manages £3.1bn of clients assets operating acro

Aviva's UK and Ireland general insurance chief executive Jason Storah has avoided answering questions around the impact of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) investment on the workforce as it continues to adopt the technology. Mr Storah acknowledged that the firm was exploring "how many people do we n

Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (AAIF) has enjoyed a strong start to 2026 delivering a 28% total return on net asset value (NAV) in the six months to the end of June and producing a 30.9% total return on its share price. The fund's NAV is ahead of the 25.7% return from the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan I

Major banks, insurance companies and building societies have tightened up their inclusion policies to require staff and visitors to use single-sex spaces matching their biological sex, rather than  their gender identity, in order to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. Admiral, Coventry Buildi

Aviva has beaten market expectations as its integration of Direct Line and general insurance division drove its operating profits for the first half of 2026 by 24%. Chief executive Dame Amanda Blanc's £3.7 billion bet on taking over motor insurer Direct Line has paid off, helped by the number

Interpath have been appointed as the joint administrators for Strathmore Hotels after it fell into administration. Alistair McAlinden and James Dewar stated that the companies will continue to trade as they review options for the business moving forward and they confirmed that all 410 employees will