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Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is taking action to help the estimated 80,000 low income households in Scotland who could be paying too much Council Tax. The charity has today launched a new online tool to help people check if they are entitled to reductions, deductions or exemptions.

Latest figures from the Gambling Commission have revealed that over-55s are now the fastest growing group of online gamblers.

Mike McKeon CA has been appointed as the new president of ICAS. Mike, who is a non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee at National Express, was confirmed as President for 2019 at the ICAS Annual General Meeting on Friday.

Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its corporate finance offering across the north of Scotland with a senior strategic hire. Eliza Bellamy, who brings 15 years’ M&A experience, has joined Johnston Carmichael as a director in the firm’s Aberdeen office.

After years of bank branch and cashpoint closures, Scottish trust in day-to-day banking services is lower than anywhere else in the UK, according to Which?’s annual Scottish Consumer Insight Report. The consumer champion’s in-depth analysis for 2018 unpicks the trends and financial outlo

The contribution of the Scotch Whisky industry to the UK economy has grown by 10 per cent since 2016 to £5.5bn.

Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based adviser built wrap platform, has revamped its advisory board as it continues its strategic engagement with the adviser community and looks to put advisers at the heart of its approach to corporate governance. Since the company was founded by seven advisory businesses in

Twenty-eight business leaders from 23 of Scotland’s most promising, pioneering and accomplished businesses, have been announced today as the finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards - Scotland. For the first time, the awards dinner will take place in Dundee in June. The City of Dis

Edinburgh-based wealth manager, Brooks Macdonald, has launched an innovative Decumulation Service to meet the evolving needs of the ‘at retirement’ market and beyond. Since pension freedoms began in 2015, over 1.8 millioni people have accessed their defined contribution pension pot and t

Edinburgh property group Sigma has launched a new Scottish Government-backed fund to invest in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Sigma Scottish PRS Fund will have initial resources of £43 million, with £30m provided by the Scottish Government’s Building Sco

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress in the country in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the latest data from insolvency s

The independent chair of a commission tasked with tackling poverty in Edinburgh has called for the introduction of strict rent controls in the city. Dr Jim McCormick said that high housing costs has been singled out by the Edinburgh Poverty Commission as the biggest barrier to lifting

The average cost of motor insurance has fallen to its lowest level for two years - £466 - according to the Association of British Insurer’s latest Motor Insurance Premium Tracker out today.

Nationwide Building Society has today announced that it has invested in Ordo, an innovative payment request service launching later this year that connects billers to payers using apps and secure messaging, putting billers and their customers back in control of their payments. Ordo pr

Property market activity in Edinburgh is at its highest level since the credit crunch and shows no sign of slowing down because of Brexit, according to Warners Solicitors & Estate Agents.