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Kevin McCallum Edinburgh-based accounting software vendor FreeAgent has become one of the first companies in the UK to secure Open Banking registration from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Derek MacKay Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has been criticised for advising one of Scotland's top boarding schools on how to apply for tax relief after new Scottish Government reforms increase their tax bill, The Scotsman reports.

A man who phoned a hoax bomb threat to an airport in order to delay a flight he was worried about missing has been jailed. Dana Carter, 40, will serve a four-month jail sentence on weekends only - spreading out the punishment over 60 weeks.

Authorities in Russia have launched a probe into export tax fraud involving Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs), The Herald reports. Prosecutors in a port near the Estonian border say they are looking into an attempt to avoid more than $200,000 in duty on a tanker carrying fuel oil.

Charles Livingstone As negotiations between the EU and the UK continue after the publication of the UK’s White Paper containing proposals for the future UK-EU relationship, the UK government is preparing for Brexit. This includes making the orders required to modify the legal landscape for a post-

Ken Milliken Businesses in Scotland suffered losses of £1.8 million in the first half of the year as a result of fraud, a significant decline on the figure of £3.8m in the same period last year.

Pete Duncan Glasgow Credit Union has announced the appointment of Pete Duncan as their new chief operating officer.

Alison McGregor HSBC has said it will not hire a new Scottish chief executive following the announced departure of Alison McGregor at the end of this year, The Herald reports.

RBS has announced that Katie Murray will take over as interim chief financial officer from Ewen Stevenson at the start of October. Mr Stevenson, who resigned from the post at the end of May, will step down from the Board and cease to be CFO on 30 September 2018.

Phil Loney Royal London has reported a nine per cent increase in pre-tax profits and a £2 million rise in operating profits in the first half of the year, The Scotsman reports.

David Michael Hughes A globe-trotting tax consultant who fled the UK before he could be arrested for masterminding a conspiracy to steal £6.9 million from construction workers’ pay packets is finally behind bars.

Tesla founder Elon Musk has denied that he was "on weed" when he announced he wanted to take his company private at $420 a share. The number 420 is a popular code in cannabis culture for consuming cannabis.

A Cumbernauld man who swindled two elderly tenants out of thousands of pounds while working for a housing association was today jailed.

Anthony Rafferty Origo has joined Scottish Financial Enterprise as the fintech company continues to expand its development of technology solutions for financial services companies across the UK.

Paul Christensen Previse, the fintech firm founded in Glasgow in 2016 which counts Scottish Enterprise among its financial backers, has raised US$7 million (£5.5 million) in a Series A funding round to be used to help scale Previse’s payment technology business to meet demand with a number of sta