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PwC is transforming the way professionals share their credentials by using blockchain technology to issue staff with digital versions of their certifications, kept in virtual wallets.

Legislation to support the establishment and capitalisation of the Scottish National Investment Bank has been published by the Scottish Parliament. The Bill grants the necessary powers to set up the Bank which will provide financing for businesses through their whole life cycle and for important inf

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging business owners to prepare now and consider three steps to ensure their businesses can continue to trade with the EU if the Brexit fiasco currently playing out in London results in the UK crashing out with no deal in place.

A pioneering alliance between the University of Dundee and Entrepreneurial Scotland (ES) will help to forge Scotland’s next generation of business leaders. The three-year collaboration between the two institutions was signed at the University’s Centre of Entrepreneurship&n

A London-based banker has been awarded £500,000 in damages after successfully suing the architect he claimed did not deliver the “wow factor” when he built a home cinema suspended above an indoor swimming pool at his £7 million home.

Chartered accountants & business advisors Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced key appointments in the firm’s virtual finance function (VFF) team. AAB’s VFF service is bespoke so clients can tailor the service to their exact requirements and vary this where circumsta

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), the asset manager arm of Standard Life Aberdeen, has today announced the appointment of Sir Gerry Grimstone as chair of its joint-venture with global provider and manager of alternative investment products Investcorp. Sir Gerry’s appointment follows hi

The accountancy watchdog has announced an expansion of its probe into KPMG’s audit of Carillion for the second time. The Financial reporting Council (FRC) says it will now look into work on the collapsed contractor’s 2013 accounts but it did not say why it has widened its timeline or whe

New research from Barclays Mortgages has found that families in Edinburgh are the happiest in the UK when it comes to their homes, with 93 per cent of parents saying that they are happy in their current properties. 

The UK's richest man is to invest £1 billion in the UK's oil and chemical industries.

More than 4.4 million regular savers have been put off investing because they find it hard to choose from the thousands of funds on offer, new research from mutual life and investments firm Scottish Friendly has revealed.

New research released today reveals that 9 out of ten (90 per cent) Scottish consumers say they are “concerned” that physical bank branches will disappear completely from the high street in five years. Nearly a quarter (23 per cent) also think that high street banks will be com

The Financial Conduct Authority has underlined the importance of GDPR compliance for financial services firms after signing an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO), the UK’s data protection watchdog, write MacRoberts Par

The century- old Merrill Lynch brand is to disappear from the world of investment banking. Most of its operations will be run under the shorter name of Merrill after a decision by owner Bank of America.

The number of retailers in Scotland going bust has been at rate of just over one a week for the last ten years, according to new analysis of the sector by accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP. The firm has analysed official Insolvency Service statistics and found that 615 Scottish ret