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Jackie Baillie Greater effort is required to prevent criminals and fraudsters cheating the public purse, Holyrood’s Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee has found.

Royal Bank of Scotland, through its subsidiary brand NatWest, has become the first UK bank to offer a paperless mortgage.

The UK government is to have banks and building societies carry out checks on their current account holders in order to help authorities identify illegal immigrants.

Scott Henderson Edinburgh-based research and development tax expert Jumpstart is redefining its direction of travel in order to maintain and enhance its position as "the most innovative pure-play specialist in the sector", the firm has said.

Ryan Yule and Laura Stephen of Phil Anderson Financial Services Two members of staff at north east firm Phil Anderson Financial Services are celebrating after a double success for the firm.

Shona Duncan From this summer’s snap general election to the impact of Brexit and the looming prospect of a second referendum on Scottish independence, the country’s political landscape seems to be on a continual journey of uncertainty.

Appointedd CEO, Leah Hutcheon Edinburgh based online booking software specialist Appointedd has been shortlisted in two categories for the 2017 Royal Bank of Scotland Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has suggested improvements to increase the uptake of a little used tax relief that was created to address the problems faced by some small businesses that have chosen to be a limited company in the past and want to return to a simpler legal form, be it a s

Punitive rates of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) are curtailing the million pound market in Scotland, according to latest research from easte agent Savills.

Craig and Lindsay Wilson Eat on the Green, one of the north east of Scotland's most well-established restaurants, is planning for future growth after securing financial support from Barclays.

Ken McEwan One in five potential Scottish homebuyers has cited the Scottish Government’s new property tax as a reason for their decision not to move in the past two years, with two thirds branding it ‘unfair’, according to a new poll.

Chris Laughton Mercer & Hole Chartered Accountants’ corporate advisory services team has announced that it has facilitated the sale of Dingwall life sciences company Inside Biometrics to a division of Glucorx, a supplier of diabetes products and glucose testing solutions, saving a more than 30

Heather Smallwood Grant Thornton has appointed a new Director in Aberdeen as part of an ongoing growth strategy in the north of Scotland.

Following this week’s news that the Financial Reporting Council has cleared KPMG of any wrongdoing over the audit it carried out of HBOS immediately prior to the bank’s collapse, the accountancy watchdog's impartiality has come under scrutiny after it was highlighted that 11 of the ‘Big Fourâ

Adrian Innes (left) is welcomed by and LendingCrowd founder Stuart Lunn Edinburgh-based alternative finance provider to SMEs, LendingCrowd, says it has topped 200 cumulative loan deals in August and posted a record month for the P2P lender with around £2.5 million of funds inflow and four Scottish