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Scottish Legal News, the sister publication of Scottish Financial News, has celebrated its 11th anniversary by breaking through the 12,500 subscriber barrier to reach 12,521 readers. Unique users on www.scottishlegal.com now average almost 44,000 each month and Twitter followers have

Glasgow-based accountancy firm Wylie & Bisset has told landlords that selling up is not the only option available to them as new HM Revenue & Customs figures reveal landlords of UK buy-to-let property have reacted to the government squeezing their returns by selling assets. HMRC has rev

The Scotch Whisky industry will couple future global growth with action to ensure the environmental sustainability of the industry, delegates at the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) conference heard today. The annual gathering in Edinburgh heard speeches from SWA chief executive Karen

More than 34,500 independent high street shops opened for business in the UK last year, up 4.5 per cent on 2017, new research commissioned by Visa has revealed.

KPMG is facing yet another hefty fine, this time for accounting failures dating back to the financial crisis. The Times newspaper has reported that audit watchdog the Financial Reporting Council and KPMG underwent a tribunal hearing this week over the audit firm’s decision to sign off BNY

Following the recent arrival of Debbie Crosbie as TSB’s new CEO, the bank has today announced two further leadership appointments at the top of the bank as it steps up its turnaround programme. Robin Bulloch will be joining as customer banking director, responsible for transforming the TSB cus

Nationwide Building Society has reported that its annual profits have slumped by almost a fifth after taking a £227 million hit on its technology assets and ramping up spending on IT. The UK's largest mutual reported a 19 per cent drop in underlying pre-tax profits to £788 million f

Three schoolchildren who sued a shop for defamation after being accused of stealing and opening a packet of biscuits have won their case. The children, cousins, claimed a member of staff had loudly accused them of stealing a multipack of Kinder Happy Hippo biscuits from an Iceland in Finglas, Dublin

By Doug Trainer and Scott Bannerman of the cyber-security team at Scottish accountancy firm Scott-Moncrieff  

KPMG and PwC have been revealed as comfortably the UK’s top cyber recruiters, with both companies hiring large numbers of cyber security specialists, with cyber roles accounting for one in every 17 (5.95 per cent) new KPMG recruits and one in 20 (5.08 per cent) new hires at PwC. The two other

St. James’s Place Wealth Management is hosting a free-to-attend event aimed at exploring the ever-increasing career opportunities for women in financial advice and wealth management, by hosting an open evening in Glasgow. The event, which takes place from 6pm at St. James’s Pla

Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based adviser built wrap platform has today launched the latest edition of its annual adviser census, showing advisers are struggling with capacity issues as they take on more clients while finding less time available to service them. This year’s census saw response

KanAm Grund Group has exchanged contracts to acquire 4-8 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, part of a substantial mixed use asset assembled by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and developed by them in conjunction with Peveril Securities. The development has been acquired on behalf of German pension fun

The latest statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in March 2019 was £149,461 – an increase of 3.3 per cent on March in the previous year.

The SNP has reiterated calls for the UK Government to drop its plans for a £30,000 salary threshold for migrants post-Brexit, calling it an “unreasonable” and “irrational” policy. The Migration Advisory Committee’s £30,000 minimum salary threshold – wh