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The director of an Edinburgh construction company, who lied about her business expenses in a VAT fraud, has been jailed for two years after an investigation into her company’s finances by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Royal Bank of Scotland has told about 3,000 of its global transaction-services clients to speed up their search for another bank.

Agencies dealing in the creation, selling and hosting of controversial Scottish Limited Partnerships or ‘shell firms’ based in Scotland are turning over at least £25 million every year, it has emerged. SLPs exploit a loophole in century-old Scottish company law which critics claim are increasin

A Scottish businessman who ran up debts through gambling and transferred cash prior to filing for bankruptcy has been handed an eight-year Bankruptcy Restriction Order (BRO).

Barclays has announced the latest step in its strategy to reduce its non-core business in order to focus on its UK and US banking operations with the sale of its risk analytics and index unit to Bloomberg in a £615 million deal. The banking giant said it would make a pre-tax gain of about £535 mil

Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands.

Gillian Guy People accessing their retirement savings are being caught out by unexpected taxes and welfare reductions, reveals research from Citizens Advice.

Gross mortgage borrowing in the UK during July hit £12.6 billion, a year-on-year rise of 6 per cent, according to latest data from the British Bankers Association.

Antonio Horta-Osario Lloyds Banking Group chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio has apologised to the Edinburgh-based banking group's staff for the damage caused to the firm as a result of reports concerning his personal life.

A new £35 million private funding facility has been designed to support plans to build over 480 homes for social and mid-market rent in Leith and North Edinburgh by 2020.

Business confidence in Scotland is now at its lowest level since the last recession, according to new research.

Blair Nimmo KPMG has been appointed administers of Aberdeen-based subsea and surface engineering company CIE Well Control.

David Mundell Scotland's public spending deficit has held at about £15 billion in the past financial year, according to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) figures published today.

Scottish home buyers borrowed £2.2 billion for house purchase during the second quarter of the year, up 23 per cent on the first three months of 2016 but down 1 per cent year-on-year.

High Court Edinburgh A man who claimed he was unaware that a document he signed included an indemnity has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to dismiss his case.