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Graeme Hartop 2018 Hampden & Co, the Edinburgh-based independent bank which opened in June 2015, has increased income by 138 per cent and nearly doubled the volume of loans it makes to clients.

Court of Session Former Rangers manager Walter Smith has revealed that he is to sue his former financial adviser for £320,000 after the businessman invested money on his behalf during the 1990's while he was manager of English side Everton.

Police in Fife have arrested seven people after staff working in branches of Bank of Scotland became suspicious of transactions involving £14,000 worth of cheques and withdrawals.

Laura Hinton PwC has announced that it will no longer consider all-male shortlists for jobs as part of the firm's wider action plan to improve diversity and address its gender pay gap.

Castlight Financial, the Glasgow-based fintech company, Big Issue Invest (BII) and Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) have collaborated to launch a new tool designed to empower people struggling with debt by providing them with access to their own data.

Mark Maitland The entertainment and media (E&M) sector will be worth £76bn by 2021, up from £68bn this year, according to PwC’s latest Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2018-2022.

A four-acre mixed-use development site in Edinburgh has been acquired by M&G Real Estatefor £49.1 million.

A quartet of high-flying accountancy staff are preparing to face their fears by jumping out of a plane for charity.

The total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2007-08 to 2017-18 was £161.3 billion, according to the sixth annual Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report.

Ross McEwan The UK government has announced plans to sell 7.7 per cent of its stake in Royal Bank of Scotland.

Kent Mackenzie Deloitte has strengthened its senior team in Scotland with the appointment of two new partners - fintech and analytics specialist Kent Mackenzie and the leader of its oil and gas transaction services team, Shaun Reynolds.

Jim Galbraith Scottish Friendly, Scotland’s largest financial mutual, has today announced that it is in the final stages of securing the acquisition of a bundled group pension business from Mobius Life, an independently-owned provider of institutional services to corporate pension schemes in the U

James Anderson Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has announced that it has raised a further £170 million in long-term, fixed rate, senior, unsecured private placement notes, denominated in sterling.

Clara Jackson Grant Thornton has appointed a new wealth advisory manager as part of a focus on growing its specialist services in Scotland.

Canmoor, the new owner of Westway Park in Renfrew, has announced its first new occupier, since acquiring the park from the administrator for £40 million in March.