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Edinburgh-based investment management partnership Baillie Gifford has opened its first client office in mainland Europe as part of plans for continued growth in the region. David Gaschik, recently appointed as the firm's marketing director for Germany and Austria, is based at the new offic

Plans to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in Britain by fifty per cent have been set out, after independent research commissioned by the Treasury showed women still face too many barriers to setting up their own business. Alison Rose, deputy CEO of NatWest Holdings and CEO, Commercial &am

Some of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs have committed an additional £1 million of grants and loans to Scottish EDGE, the UK’s biggest funding competition for potential high growth businesses. Entrepreneurs supporting the initiative include Sir Tom Hunter, Kevin Dorren, Sir Brian

Pinsent Masons has appointed financial services litigation specialist Stuart Murdoch as partner. Mr Murdoch joins the team in Edinburgh and will strengthen the firm’s disputes capability for financial institutions, funds and insurers in the UK and internationally.

The board of Nucleus Financial Group has announced that it has reached agreement on the terms of an offer by James Hay Holdings Limited for Nucleus for a total consideration valuing Nucleus at c. £144.6 million. The transaction will bring together the respective expertise of Nucleus and James

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has reported a record £46.5 million in financial sanctions issued in the last year. The FRC published its fourth Annual Enforcement Review which reports a record number of cases resolved in the last year and record financial sanctions of £46.5m were

SFE Chief Executive Graeme Jones with CBS Consulting team Iain Beggs, Stephen Verrecchia and Eddie Curran Edinburgh-based firm CBS Consulting has joined Scottish Financial Enterprise to expand their network and support the representative body’s work in strengthening and promoting financial service

PwC has named Fraser Wilson as head of financial services in Scotland, as the firm continues to build its presence in an industry worth £13 billion to the Scottish economy. A Glasgow-based partner, Mr Wilson replaces Allan McGrath, who has led the financial services practice over the last two

Midlothian Council has been rated highly for its financial management and governance and transparency by external auditors EY.

International ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has announced an upgraded outlook on Glasgow-based Wheatley Group’s credit rating. The agency revised its forecast for the housing, care and property management group to “stable” from “negative”, wh

Kent Mackenzie Deloitte has invited top data scientists and fintech entrepreneurs from around the country to compete in its 2018 Datathon.

Scottish Opera and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, two Glasgow institutions with a combined workforce exceeding 350, have forged a strategic partnership with Glasgow Credit Union. This alliance, targeted at bolstering the financial wellbeing of their staff, is in response to

Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has commissioned a report which examines the financial habits of Scotland in order to understand more about people’s attitudes to their money, their knowledge and competence with it, and how they are intending to use it to support their futures.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Barclays Bank £26 million for failures in relation to their treatment of consumer credit customers who fell into arrears or experienced financial difficulties. Between April 2014 and December 2018 some retail and small business customers who had

Urgent action is needed to address a skills and talent crisis in UK financial services, according to an independent review commissioned by HM Treasury.