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U.S. investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have each issued denials to reports that they are planning to move their London banking operations to Frankfurt following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. The denials are in response to reports that the banking giants had pre-let of

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An Edinburgh University payroll manager who mocked-up a fictitious £14,000 invoice for taxidermy services has been branded a ‘disgrace’ and sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work. Henry Emmanuel, 37, tried to have the invoice rushed through saying there would be a complaint if it was not paid.

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Royal Bank of Scotland has been criticised by police over its failure to intervene in a spate of frauds carried out within a quarter mile radius of a leafy part of Edinburgh over the course of just 10 days which saw vulnerable pensioners tricked out of more than £300,000. Four victims were targeted

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Independent Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew LLP has announced an increase in profits in its last financial year of over 18 per cent from £2.4m to £2.86m on the back of an increase in turnover of 6.7 per cent from £9.81m to £10.47m. The figures are incorporated in the firm’s Annual Report

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Major improvements have been made at South Ayrshire Council over the last two years, according to the Accounts Commission. A new report published today charts how the council has responded to a critical audit in February 2014 when the Commission voiced concerns about significant weaknesses in the ma

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Roseanna Cunningham The first parts of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act have come in to force this week.

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The latest annual legal benchmarking review from Henderson Loggie, in conjunction with the firm’s UK accountancy association MHA, points to encouraging signs of growth for a second year, most notably through an upturn in the property and construction sector. However, improved fee income has not tr

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