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Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it is offering £175 to new and existing customers switching their main bank account. The time limited offer launches on 23 April 2019 and runs until 28 June 2019.

By Paul McGonigal, Tax Senior Manager at Johnston Carmichael's Inverness Office  

New analysis from independent wealth management company Succession Wealth has revealed that as many as 550 UK couples each with net financial wealth of £1 million or more, will divorce this year. It estimates that collectively they have around £1.91 billion of net wealth, or £

The overall number of Scots facing insolvency in the first quarter of 2019 rose 29.2 per cent compared to the first quarter in 2018, according the latest Accountant in Bankruptcy figures released today. The AiB figures reveal that personal insolvencies rose from the 2,533 recorded in the first three

Brexit, a global slowdown, and confusion over fuel type have caused a sharp fall in the number of drivers opting to buy a new - rather than used - car in Scotland, according to new research by Close Brothers Motor Finance.

Nationwide Building Society has selected seven FinTech companies to take part in its Open Banking for Good challenge. The FinTech firms will develop Open Banking based apps and services to help financially vulnerable people.

Aviva has announced that head of UK insurance Andy Briggs has stepped down from the role as well as as a director of its board. He will remain with the group until 23 October 2019 to support an orderly transition, with Angela Darlington, currently Aviva’s group chief risk officer, wi

Accountancy firm Saffery Champness has appointed a new VAT senior manager on the same day Sean McGinness is promoted to VAT partner. As of today's announcements, Saffery Champness now has 13 partners across its Scottish offices.

Jim Tomaney, chief operating officer at Dunfermline-based Renovite Technologies has issued a stern rebuke to the UK’s biggest banks for what he says has been their failure to invest in new ATM technology in order to mitigate the effects of their wide-ranging branch culls. Mr Tomaney, said many

An Italian businessman had to watch €40,000 go up in smoke after his girlfriend used the oven he had stuffed with illicit cash to bake a strudel.

Scammers are taking advantage of music fans searching for tickets to sold-out events by setting up fake ticketing websites and social media personas, according to new research from Barclays.

Sector conditions in Scottish commercial property remain highly varied, with industrial property and office space seeing solid growth and retail continuing to show little sign of improvement, according to the Q1 2019 RICS UK Commercial Property Market Survey.

By Nigel Roberts VAT Director and Head of VAT & Duty at Johnston Carmichael  

Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford is poised to transfer its investment trust savings scheme to fellow wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown. Baillie Gifford said the long-term interests of the plan holders will be “best serviced” by the transfer of investments to the direct-to-consumer p

Britain’s banks are to get help from the country’s top spies to fight credit-card fraud, the director of GCHQ has announced. Industry body UK Finance’s most recent data shows that fraud losses of UK-issued cards totalled £566 million in 2017.