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UK banks were hit with charges totalling £880m between 2013 and 2015 over investment products and advice misselling, according to research from think tank New City Agenda. Almost £53bn was spent by the largest UK retail banks to pay for their misconduct across all products between 2000 and 2015, t

In the next five years, 40 per cent of family businesses globally will prepare to hand over the business to a new generation. According to new global research by PwC entitled, Great Expectations: The next generation of familybusiness leaders, the next generation of family business leaders – or ‘

Vishal Chopra Grant Thornton has called for all parties in Holyrood to make tax simplification a post-election priority.

A new strategic alliance between PwC and leading maritime fleet monitoring and risk management solution provider, Pole Star, has been announced that aims to help organisations involved in international trade to better manage their legal and regulatory obligations. PwC said it is working with Pole St

Catherine Burnet Blair Nimmo’s promotion to head of UK restructuring at KPMG has seen Catherine Burnet replace him as senior partner for the firm’s Edinburgh office - and ushered in a raft of senior changes for the global business north of the border.

Lorraine Macphail Lorraine Macphail is head of property and construction, Scotland at Grant Thornton

Petra Wetzel Petra Wetzel, the founder of independent Glasgow brewery WEST, has launched West Women, an investment fund to provide seed capital and other financial assistance to emerging female entrepreneurs operating within Scotland’s buoyant food and drink sector.

Glasgow-based investment house, Maven Capital Partners, has announced that it has led the management buyout (MBO) of Westfield Medical (Westfield), a leading provider of sterilisation barrier products to the healthcare and industrial sectors. The £12 million funding package includes an equity raise

Martin Gill The slowing services industry is taking its toll on the Scottish economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO.

Alasdair Gardner March saw a sharper deterioration in business conditions in Scotland’s private sector, according to the Bank of Scotland's latest survey.

A map showing the highest concentrations of cold homes across Scotland - click to zoom Political parties have been urged to commit to ridding Scotland of the “scourge” of cold homes by 2025 after new data revealed that there are up to 1.5 million cold homes in the country.

Robin McAdam Investment management groups Brooks Macdonald, which has a significant presence in Scotland via its Edinburgh office, has today launched a new corporate identity designed to bring together all of its subsidiary businesses under one Brooks Macdonald 'masterbrand'.

The University of Dundee is to open a new centre of entrepreneurship encompassing a business accelerator. Elevator, a social enterprise which works across Tayside and Grampian to provide Business Gateway services and help facilitate start-up and growth of new and existing businesses on behalf of the

Dominic Wedderburn Fife is fast becoming one of Scotland’s property hotspots, according to one local estate agent.

Scotland’s public sector should target a tenth of its spending power on firms with fewer than 10 employees, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has claimed. FSB argues that if the Scottish devolved public sector spent just 0.5 per cent more of their total procurement budget with micro firms e