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Cat MacLean, MBM Commercial partner Cat MacLean, who is one of Scotland’s leading legal authorities on banking misconduct, has told Sir William Blackburne, the retired High Court judge installed as the independent arbiter of the scheme set up by Royal Bank of Scotland to compensate victims of the

(from left) Michelle Motion, finance director with Sandy Adam, executive chairman and Innes Smith, chief executive officer Elgin-based private and affordable homes developer Springfield Properties has successfully raised £25 million in early trading on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) this m

Unsecured debt, amassed primarily on credit cards, student loans, car financing and overdrafts, has reached an all-time high of close to £300 billion, or £11,000 per UK household, growing at a faster rate than at any time in the past 15 years, PwC’s latest Precious Plastics report has found.

Simon Cowie Aberdeen accountancy and business advisory practice Infinity Partnership has won at the British Accountancy Awards for the third year in a row.

Nicola Williams Edinburgh-based accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has announced Nicola Williams as the latest recruit to its Entrepreneurial Tax team.

Howard Archer With the UK economy looking set to remain stuck in low gear for the rest of this year and well into 2018, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) should keep interest rates on hold until late 2018 to avoid weakening the fragile economic outlook, says the latest forecast

Three of the five Scottish Parliament constituencies with the fastest growing business communities are in Edinburgh, new research has revealed.

Ernst & Young, together with partner Julian Gray, have been fined and reprimanded by the accountancy watchdog after admitting misconduct in relation to the audit of the financial statements of Tech Data Limited.

Quartermile, Edinburgh. The Bank of Montreal has announced plans to move its Edinburgh fund management operation into a new flagship office.

New figures released today by the Office of National Statistics have revealed that Britain is almost half a trillion pounds poorer than it was originally believed.

Two top-flight Scottish clubs have revealed that they have been the victims of fraud this year that has cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds. Heart of Midlothian and Hamilton Academical have both said they have been hit following a warning issued by the SPFL in August that clubs should guard ag

The Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh, which charts the history of banking in Scotland, and explores the theme of money in all its shapes and forms, is being shut by Lloyds Bank Banking Group.

Left to right: Chris West, Fiona Morton & Robert Graham-Campbell. Independent Scottish Law firm Gillespie Macandrew LLP has announced that its new CEO will be Robert Graham-Campbell.

The value of goods exported by Scotland in the year to the end of June was up by more than 20 per cent, driven by the growth in the oil and gas industry, according to latest HM Revenue and Customs data.

Nicky Morgan Nicky Morgan, chairwoman of the Treasury select committee, has taken another step to further ratchet up the pressure on the Financial Conduct Authority and Royal Bank of Scotland to disclose in full the watchdog’s now notorious leaked report into the conduct of RBS’s former small bu