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UK retail sales stalled in April despite warmer weather boosting clothing sales, official data released to has shown.

Without action, 50,000 more children will enter poverty in Scotland between 2017/18 and 2023/24, equivalent to 750 more children each month, 170 more children each week and 25 more children each day entering relative poverty over this time.

Social media giant Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency next year, according to reports.

Student-focused UK digital banking startup Loot has gone in to administration after a sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland fell through. RBS owned a 25 per cent stake in the fintech through subsidiary Natwest’s digital bank Bo, which is currently under development and invested a total of £

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

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.

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

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

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

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

International ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has announced an upgraded outlook on Glasgow-based Wheatley Group’s credit rating. The agency revised its forecast for the housing, care and property management group to “stable” from “negative”, wh

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

New academic research has revealed that school pupils in the UK are becoming increasingly unable to work out change, with physical money rapidly becoming an alien concept to them.

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

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