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Phil Grady Glasgow-based financial capability company Castlight Financial has formed a new strategic partnership with credit reporting agency Equifax to launch the first real-time affordability platform to support brokers and their clients with mortgage applications.

The UK’s high street failed to rally at the end of a dismal year of trading, figures released today by accountants BDO reveal.

Dundee-based law firm Blackadders has reported increased profits and turnover. The firm produced revenue of £11.7 million in the year to March 2016, an increase of 14.3 per cent. Profits for the year before member remuneration and profit share increased by 14.8 per cent to £3m, a small increase on

A former bank manager is to stand trial accused of aiding an alleged £112,400 customer account fraud resulting from a criminal scam.

Jamie Grant - Head of Corporate Banking for Barclays Scotland & Northern Ireland. Barclays has launched a mobile business lending service capable of providing instant loans to businesses.

Chris Cowan Banking industry veteran Chris Cowan is returning to Royal Bank of Scotland’s Adam & Company subsidiary.

Peter Dean Glasgow-based Carrington Dean Group has become the first full service debt advice and solutions business in Scotland to receive Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation, capping a year of major developments that included an acquisition and establishing a not-for-profit organisation

A surge in demand for Edinburgh townhouse office to residential conversions is being driven by soaring residential prices within Edinburgh’s West End and New Town because of a rise in the number of cash buyers in the market and, post-Brexit vote, an influx of foreign capital due to the fall in th

Daniel Broby A new Masters in Financial Technology is to launch at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow which the institution says will support the digital transformation of Scotland’s financial sector.

Liina Tulk Liina Tulk, Senior Solicitor in MBM Commercial's Dispute Resolution team, considers circumstances where a banking dispute can turn into a professional negligence claim against previous lawyers.

Alasdair McKinnon Scottish Investment Trust has posted a sparkling set of annual results and a 40 per cent hike in dividends to shareholders following a management overhaul instigated in 2015.

Neil Norman Accountancy firm Chiene + Tait has entered into a partnership that aims to make it easier to invest in Scottish SMEs.

Dundee Sheriff Court. (Image: Google Street View) A paralegal who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £40,000 from the estate of her ex-husband’s great aunt is facing prison.

Elliott Advisors, the activist hedge-fund manager which forced boardroom change at Alliance Trust has upped its stake in the Dundee-based investment giant to 19 per cent.

Business confidence has stabilised at the start of 2017, following a dip in the summer but economic uncertainty continues to be the biggest threat to businesses, according to the latest Business in Britain report from Lloyds Bank.