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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is today proposing stricter rules for firms selling ‘contract for difference’ (CFD) products to retail customers to improve standards across the sector and ensure consumers are appropriately protected.

Moira Kelly The body representing Scotland’s tax professionals has reiterated its support for plans to place the Scottish Fiscal Commission on a statutory footing from next year, but restated the importance of ensuring that the privacy of data relating to individual members of the public is mainta

Standing L-R: Matthew Brown, Stephen Webster. Seated L-R: Susan Bennett, Alison Miller. Scottish financial services company Thorntons Investments has made three key appointments as part of its ambitious growth strategy for 2017.

In a speech to Liverpool University last night, Bank of England chief Mark Carney estimated that up to 15 million of the current jobs in Britain could be automated over time, with whole professions—including accounting—eliminated.

PAY rates went into reverse as the number of new job postings increased in Scotland in November, new figures reveal.

Fiona Nicholl Fife Housing Group has announced the appointment of Fiona Nicholl as its new director of finance and governance.

Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed a multi-million-pound payout to settle claims from shareholders who allege they were misled when they answered the bank's call for an injection of capital just before it needed a £45 billion taxpayer bailout in 2008.

Fiona McBain Scottish Friendly’s outgoing chief executive has taken a party short at both current and past UK governments for failing to do enough to encourage people to prepare adequately for their financial futures.

Mike Dailly A group of activist lawyers has called on the Scottish government to clamp down on the insolvency industry which it claims is causing excessive hardship to the lives of many indebted Scots.

One in five Brits are scared of being scammed at Christmas, new research by Nationwide has found, with many people failing to take simple precautionary steps.

Kevin Reynard After more than two decades at Albyn Place in Aberdeen, professional services firm PwC has moved to a new custom-outfitted office on the top floor of The Capitol at 431 Union Street.

Scotland’s transition to the new Land & Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) was “operationally successful” but it is “too early to draw any definitive conclusions” on its impact on the property market, MSPs on a Holyrood committee have said.

The growth of Scotland’s economy will be much slower over the next couple of years as existing headwinds are compounded by political and economic uncertainty, according to the EY Scottish ITEM Club 2017 Forecast.

Scott Webb (UKSE) and Robert Stevenson (SB&AS) UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE) has provided financial backing for a management buyout (MBO) of Wishaw-based asbestos removal firm, Specialist Building & Asbestos Services (SB & AS) Ltd.

L-R: Craig Allison (French Duncan Manager & CSR Chair), Arlene Clark (founder of Brightest Star), Christine Thomson (French Duncan Senior and CSR Liaison) and French Duncan Managing Partner Graeme Finnie. Scottish accountancy firm French Duncan has raised more than £10,500 for a Paisley charity