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Clackmannanshire Council has “laid the foundations for improvement” but “serious challenges” remain for the local authority, according to the Accounts Commission.

Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary NatWest has revealed a divide in attitudes between business people and consumers towards the major technological changes that are going to transform the way people live their lives in the coming years.

With just two months to go until the 29 August 2019 PPI complaints deadline, the FCA is urging all UK consumers to make a decision, before it’s too late, about whether to complain about PPI. FCA figures show the regulator has had more than 3.9 million users access the PPI website and 44,000 ca

Barclays has teamed up with the nation’s oldest grime artists, Pete & Bas, to release a track - Bank Account Details Please – calling for the scammers to ‘jog on’.

Johnston Carmichael has today announced that it is appointing a new CEO and chair on 1 August as part of the firm’s ongoing succession planning. L-R: Andrew Walker, Andrew Shepherd and Sandy Manson.

CYBG, the owner of Clydesdale Bank, Virgin Money, Yorkshire Bank and digital brand B has announcemeed three new appointments to its senior leadership team. Lucy Dimes will join the bank in July as goup business transformation officer to lead on improving the efficiency and effectivene

SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh investment boutique, has appointed Jonathan Beckett and Jonathan Hewitt as non-executive directors to strengthen its main board. Jonathan Beckett, has nearly twenty years’ investment industry experience as a fund selector and is a well-known industry campaig

One third of Scots (36 per cent) have borrowed money from family and friends; yet one in ten (8 per cent) do not expect to pay the money back, according to new research by Bank of Scotland.

Blackadders LLP has been appointed as legal adviser to AMC (the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Plc) in Scotland. AMC specialises in finance and loans for farms and rural businesses and has seen steady growth in Scotland, recording record levels of lending this year.

Two thirds (60 per cent) of UK teachers believe students leave school with a poor level of financial understanding while 70 per cent of students reported acquiring their financial knowledge from their parents rather than formal education, new research has found.

Latest gross mortgage figures show that monthly mortgage approval levels are marginally less than forecast but have remained at some of the highest levels in over two years. UK Finance reported mortgage approvals eased back in May after rising markedly to a 26-month high in

Ten years on from when the Business Gateway network was established in the Highlands and Islands, new figures have revealed the impact that the business advice service has had on the region, with thousands of new and existing businesses supported to create over 7300 new jobs. Business Gateway provid

Scottish Chambers of Commerce CEO Liz Cameron has been included in a prestigious list of people that enrich the relationship between the UK and India. Dr Cameron, along with Poonam Gupta OBE, the chief executive of PG Paper, were the only Scots featured in the 100 Most Influential in UK In

Midlothian Council is expected to save more than £7 million after councillors agreed its first Medium Term Financial Strategy. The council said the move is a “major step change” aimed at strengthening financial sustainability and allowing it to plan and implement service deliv

Twenty entrepreneurs with early stage companies are celebrating their successes following a year-long programme of funding, training, mentorship and academic support from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)’s Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellowship (UA EF) scheme funded by the Scottish Gover