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Left to right: Sandy Cairnie, Chris van der Kuyl, Fraser Edmond, Iain Crole and Paddy Burns Tech entrepreneurs Chris van der Kuyl and Paddy Burns, the duo whose Dundee firm 4J Studios brought the Minecraft phenomenon to the world’s consoles, have today announced the launch of their new insurtech b

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern Asset Management (ASAM), the wealth management arm of Scottish law firm Anderson Strathern, now has £250 million under management and over 400 clients.

David Duffy The owner of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks boosted its first quarter lending but its shares have taken a hit this week because of concerns about a weaker mortgage market.

Kerry Kerry Sharp, head of the Scottish Investment Bank Edinburgh-based Sofant Technologies Ltd has secured nearly £800,000 of new investment in an over-subscribed funding round from angel syndicates Kelvin Capital Ltd, Newable and Investing Women as well as Old College Capital and Scottish Investm

John Di Paolo Irwin Mitchell in Glasgow has announced that two of its employees have been promoted to associate or senior associate.

Sir Howard Davies Top brass at the Royal Bank of Scotland have again been sent scrambling over revelations of how the Edinburgh-based lender treated small business customers in a bruising session in front of MPs that has forced the Financial Conduct Authority into a dramatic u-turn on its decision n

Paul Pester TSB has today announced that it is starting to put pieces in place to bring much needed competition to the UK small business banking market this year.

Graeme Hartop Edinburgh-based Hampden & Co, the UK’s newest private bank, has announced that it raised more capital than planned in its recent fundraising.

Jim McColl Jim McColl, chief executive of investment vehicle Clyde Blowers Capital and one of Scotland’s richest men, has revealed that he plans to launch a new Scottish bank to support small businesses with loans of up to £5 million.

The FTSE 100 slumped yesterday by more than 1 per cent ending the day down around 83.55 points at 7,587.98, with financial services taking the largest hit.

Online retail giant Amazon has this week revealed plans to move into health care insurance by teaming up with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase.

David Gauke The Lord Chancellor has lost an appeal to a ruling that transitional pension arrangements for over 200 judges amount to unlawful age discrimination.

Duncan Swift Latest data from the Insolvency Service published today has shown that 99,196 people were declared insolvent in the UK in 2017 as the nation’s personal debt burden ballooned to £1.6 trillion.

The UK’s financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority has today reached out to people with interest-only mortgages to urge them to contact their lender after discovering that many have still not sought guidance on their repayment options.

Howard Archer Mortgage approvals for house purchases fell to a 35-month low in December, marking what was a fourth decline in five months, latest Bank of England figures have revealed.