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Craig Whyte, Gavin Hood (head of advisory corporate finance at Deloitte in Scotland), Colin Tait and Robbie Glass Deloitte in Scotland has announced the appointment of a specialist team of business valuers, which it says gives the business advisory firm a unique proposition for clients north of the

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Fraser Sutherland Private parking firms in Scotland are passing outstanding parking tickets on to debt collection agencies, resulting in more Scottish car owners being threatened with court action over disputed charges, according to Citizens Advice Scotland.

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The City of Edinburgh Council has made considerable progress towards balancing its books, according to the Accounts Commission. The local authority watchdog raised significant concerns in December 2014 over the council's financial position, including a £67 million gap in savings required to meet fu

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William Hobbs In a week when trade body Oil and Gas UK published a report warning that the entire North Sea energy industry was “on the edge of a chasm”, a top banker has told an audience in Britain’s oil capital of Aberdeen that prices are on their way up and that there is no new financial cr

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Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group, rescued during the financial crisis at a cost of £20.5 billion to UK taxpayers, increased full-year underlying profits by 5 percent to 8.1 billion pounds last year, it said today. However, the bank also reported a 7 per cent fall in annual pre-tax profits to £

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The Scottish Government's budget for the next year has been passed by MSPs as trade union members protested outside Holyrood over cuts to council budgets and local authority job cuts. MSPs passed the budget by 64 votes to 57 after opposition parties continued to press Finance Secretary John Swinney

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Gross mortgage borrowing of £13.6 billion in January was 38 per cent higher than a year ago and the highest since mid-2008, according to latest data from the British Bankers Association. The number of mortgage approvals in January was 33 per cent higher than a year ago, with remortgaging up 42 perc

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Rents in parts of Scotland have soared by more than six per cent in the past year, the fastest rise on record. The latest Scotland buy-to-let index from Your Move has found that average monthly rent in Edinburgh and the Lothians increased by £38 (6.4 per cent) to £642 in January compared to the pr

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The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to exempt transactions of six or more homes from the additional 3 per cent LBTT surcharge. The SPF advocated such an exemption in its written and oral evidence to the Finance Committee, in order to support large

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Life and pensions group Scottish Widows has insisted it remains committed to Edinburgh after transferring billions of pounds of its life insurance business to London. The insurer also said there will be no impact on customers from its decision to move some of its business to the UK capital.

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