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Tom Stocker contrasts English DPAs and the Scottish civil settlement regime in the context of a parliamentary inquiry into bribery legislation, at which he himself gave evidence. The UK's 2010 Bribery Act has created "an international gold standard for anti-bribery and corruption legislation",

A suspected teenage bank robber allegedly told police that he carried out an armed robbery because had "decided to try something new today". However, things didn't go to plan - as he was caught by police within minutes.

Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its financial services advisory team with the appointment of a key strategic hire. Ewen Fleming joins the Chartered Accountants and business advisers as partner following a long and successful career in financial services covering retail banking, wealth

After a tumultuous week in politics, a new weekly index run by accountancy firm RSM tracking the impact of Brexit has revealed an almost 30 per cent rise in overall stress levels in the UK economy over just one week.

Scottish accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB), has secured a significant seven figure equity investment for Project Heather to support the re-launch of the Scottish Stock Exchange after almost fifty years. AAB’s Douglas Martin, Tomas Carruthers and Edwin Hamilton of Project

Two previous Scottish EDGE winners, Beauty Kitchen and Premiership Experience, have taken an equal share of a £200,000 prize fund as victors of the inaugural Winners EDGE (WEDGE), EDGE’s new follow-on funding competition supported by Scottish Enterprise. The competition, which is exclusi

R&D tax incentive specialist and innovation consultant, ABGI Group, has launched its UK division, which is to be based in Edinburgh. Operating under the name of ABGI-UK, the firm will focus on companies with 500+ employees.

Deloitte has been named winners in the Best Large Private Sector Employer (250+ employees) at the Scottish Top Employers for Working Families Awards run by Family Friendly Working Scotland, which took place in Glasgow last week.

A senior insolvency services supervisor at Aberdeen-based chartered accountancy firm Meston Reid & Co has passed two sets of rigorous exams to become a qualified insolvency practitioner and one of only two Scottish-based candidates to pass both JIEB exams in the 2018 sitting. Recently

Edinburgh-based Standard Life has gained approval to transfer almost €19 billion of assets to Dublin in anticipation of possible disruption of services after Brexit. The company has received the final permission it needed from the Court of Session in Scotland to go ahead with the move.

The finance director of Glasgow-based temporary power generator supply giant Aggreko has been paid more than its chief executive. The contents of the annual report for the largest supplier of temporary power generators in the world show that Heath Drewett received a remuneration package worth almost

A man accused of "butchering" a tree near his property in order to increase his home's value has been ordered to pay £21,000 under proceeds of crime legislation.

Scotland lost over a third of its bank and building society branches in just eight years, raising concerns that consumers and businesses alike could struggle to access cash across the country.

Edinburgh-based fintech giant FNZ, which employs nearly 500 people in the UK, the majority of them in the Scottish capital, has reached 'unicorn' status. In the world of finance, a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion.

A Fife tax advisor has been awarded the highest level of tax qualification in the UK. Liz Goldie, tax manager in the Cupar office of EQ Chartered Accountants, has passed the prestigious Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) exams, qualifying as a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA).