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Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based adviser built wrap platform, has revamped its advisory board as it continues its strategic engagement with the adviser community and looks to put advisers at the heart of its approach to corporate governance. Since the company was founded by seven advisory businesses in

Twenty-eight business leaders from 23 of Scotland’s most promising, pioneering and accomplished businesses, have been announced today as the finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards - Scotland. For the first time, the awards dinner will take place in Dundee in June. The City of Dis

Edinburgh-based wealth manager, Brooks Macdonald, has launched an innovative Decumulation Service to meet the evolving needs of the ‘at retirement’ market and beyond. Since pension freedoms began in 2015, over 1.8 millioni people have accessed their defined contribution pension pot and t

Edinburgh property group Sigma has launched a new Scottish Government-backed fund to invest in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Sigma Scottish PRS Fund will have initial resources of £43 million, with £30m provided by the Scottish Government’s Building Sco

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress in the country in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the latest data from insolvency s

The independent chair of a commission tasked with tackling poverty in Edinburgh has called for the introduction of strict rent controls in the city. Dr Jim McCormick said that high housing costs has been singled out by the Edinburgh Poverty Commission as the biggest barrier to lifting

The average cost of motor insurance has fallen to its lowest level for two years - £466 - according to the Association of British Insurer’s latest Motor Insurance Premium Tracker out today.

Nationwide Building Society has today announced that it has invested in Ordo, an innovative payment request service launching later this year that connects billers to payers using apps and secure messaging, putting billers and their customers back in control of their payments. Ordo pr

Property market activity in Edinburgh is at its highest level since the credit crunch and shows no sign of slowing down because of Brexit, according to Warners Solicitors & Estate Agents.

Starting this week, shoppers at Sainsbury’s Holborn Circus convenience store in London can check out the UK’s first till-free grocery store.

The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) recent intervention following an outcry over conflicts of interest in the wake of a string of scandals involving Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG may be challenged in the courts by the so-called ‘Big Four’ ac

Innovate Finance, FinTech Scotland and FinTech North have today announced the creation of a national network that the trio say will encourage innovators up and down the country to connect and form multiple FinTech hubs and centres of excellence. The FinTech National Network will foster collaboration

Eileen Blackburn and Brian Milne, of accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP, have been appointed joint administrators of Edinburgh-based Big Data for Humans. Big Data for Humans, which has four employees, provided data science services for customer marketing specialising in retaile

Three executives at Metro bank have had their bonuses frozen as an investigation over accounting errors at the lender rumbles on. Shares worth about £480,000 had been due to chief executive Craig Donaldson, and about £250,000 each for finance director David Arden and his predecessor

Scottish independent wrap platform provider, Nucleus, has today published latest figures showing that it has grown its assets under administration during the first three months of the year to £14.8bn, up 9.1 per cent over Q1 2018 and 6.3 per cent on the previous quarter. By comparison, th