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Scottish insolvency expert R3 has called for company directors to face identity checks to help reduce business fraud.

HRC Recruitment has hired Margaret Richmond as director and Lynne Macdonald as principal consultant. As experienced recruiters, Margaret Richmond and Lynne Macdonald will allow HRC Recruitment to strengthen its offering across the full accountancy and finance market.

New HSBC UK research has revealed that over half of Scottish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) believe that fraud attacks are becoming more frequent.

Research from KPMG UK has revealed that house prices in Scotland risk a six per cent drop if Britain leaves the EU without a deal at the end of next month. KPMG warned that a decrease of 10-20 per cent is "not out of the question" if the market reacts more strongly than expected.

The average prison time for money laundering offences rose to a record high of 27 months last year after the introduction of new sentencing guidelines, the Financial Times reports. Research undertaken by Thomson Reuters showed that the average length of jail sentences for offenders convicted of mone

A group of MPs have called for new legislation to stop banks abandoning Scottish towns.

Deloitte UK and Switzerland have announced its 12.9% revenue growth in Scotland as part of an increase in overall revenue by 10.9% to £3.97 billion. The company has revealed it has increased its revenue by 10.9% in the year ended 31 May 2019, from £3.58 bn in 2018 to £3.97bn, as th

Royal Bank of Scotland has been ordered by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to appoint an independent body to audit its payment protection insurance (PPI) processes. The watchdog announced action against RBS and Santander over failures to comply with a requirement that customers receive a

M&G Prudential has today announced that its five-year digital transformation plan will reduce its staff numbers by 84.

The University of Glasgow has agreed to pay back £20 million after revelations that it benefited from the slave trade.

The value of major fraud cases going through the Scottish courts has declined, according to the latest data from KPMG’s Fraud Barometer, which analyses alleged fraud worth more than £100,000. Four cases were heard in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paisley in the first half of 2019, down from nin

East Kilbride-based engineering consultancy firm Grossart Associates has moved into employee ownership. 

Calls to raise the state pension age to 75 will prevent many Scottish people from being able to retire, Age Scotland has warned.

The UK state pension age should be increased to 75 by 2035, an influential think tank linked to the Conservatives has said. The right-wing Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), set up by former Conservative leader and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the UK is "not responding to the ne

A tourist tax in the Highlands could raise up up to £10 million per year for the region, according to council officials.