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Glasgow Sheriff Court (Google) The former finance director of Glasgow-based Wheatley Group who admitted to charges of voyeurism and sexual assault has avoided a prison sentence.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced plans to slash 154 contractor roles as well as an additional net job cuts totally 92 in its efforts to reorganise its back office operations.

Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management expect to cut almost 10 per cent of their combined workforce of 9,000 during the course of the three-years immediately after their £11 billion merger, despite assurances made last week by Aberdeen boss Martin Gilbert that the tie-up would not result in "a

Bridges Fund Management, a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has acquired Cumbernauld’s Antonine Shopping Centre.

KPMG has made a string of new appointments to bolster its oil and gas industry expertise in a move that its says is in response to "increasingly positive signs of an upturn" in the industry.

Scottish accountancy practice and business advisor Infinity Partnership has appointed Stuart Beaton as its new accounts manager.

KPMG has announced the launch of a new service offering aimed at assisting small and medium-sized businesses looking to raise debt finance up to £10 million.

New council administrations must appoint business champions to each of Scotland’s city deals to ensure their billion pound budgets deliver for local economies, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has said today.

A Chartered Accountant from Edinburgh has had his career in the financial industry with Lloyds Banking Group left in tatters after being placed on the sex offenders register for groping a woman in a crowded bar.

Douglas Noble Weatherbys Private Bank is continuing with its ambitious plans to grow its business in Scotland following the appointment of Douglas Noble as senior adviser.

James Smethurst The key for business during the Brexit process is to maintain an uninterrupted service to clients, according to a new report on the legal impact of Brexit on the UK-based financial services sector from a Magic Circle law firm. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s report finds that

Jeff Lynn Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs is preparing to launch a secondary market which is due to go live by this summer and will allow investors to trade shares in growing businesses before they go public.

Phil Grady Glasgow-based fintech company Castlight Financial is targeting international expansion after triumphing at Deloitte’s inaugural Disrupt the Enterprise event in Scotland.

Martin Gilbert Mining giant Glencore has appointed co-founder and chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management Martin Gilbert as an independent non-executive director of the company with immediate effect.

Narayanan Vaidyanathan Distributed ledgers and blockchain technology has the potential to improve trust in financial transactions but seem more likely to support, rather than replace, the work of professional accountants, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accounta