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Accountant Steven Day has been jailed after defrauding the NHS and stealing £1.4 million from firms. Leeds Crown Court heard that Mr Day, of Perthshire, targeted a female friend in a £4,500 romance fraud and lied about his mother dying and having cancer to conceal his actions.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has sold its wealth management arm Adam & Co to Canaccord Genuity Group for £54 million. Adam & Co’s Edinburgh-based investment management business has client assets amounting to £1.7 billion.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team advised on deals with an aggregate value of £7.1 billion in 2020. The team advised on 75 corporate finance transactions globally (excluding deals for the banking sector) – an increase of 18 per cent on its £6 billion aggregate

Dundee-based financial planning firm Wells Gibson has been announced as a second sponsor of social entrepreneurship training programme, The Circle Academy. The firm's donation will be used towards the costs of the next cohort of candidates on the programme.

Homeowners are being offered mortgage rates below 1% =for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic as lenders anticipate an economic recovery.

Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, has purchased a 100% equity stake in the Sorbie onshore wind project in North Ayrshire.

Turnover in the UK legal profession grew to £3.1 billion in February, an 11 per cent year-on-year increase and a four per cent increase on the previous month. The latest Index of Services data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) paints a healthy picture for the legal sector a year int

Dundee-founded storage firm Kangaroo Self-Storage has appointed Bryan Lee as its chief financial officer as it accelerates plans for growth as the country starts to come out of lockdown. Mr Lee joins the Board to lead the storage company’s finance and IT function and will be responsi

Independent property specialists Rettie & Co have announced that they are open for business in St Andrews. The firm has opened their new branch on Bell Street, headed up by George Lorimer, formerly of Galbraith, who joins as local director.

The latest CBRE office market research has revealed a modest performance across Glasgow and Edinburgh cities in the first quarter of 2021 as the country endured lockdown restrictions. Take-up for the Glasgow office market totalled 74,641 sq ft, a 62% drop from the same period in 2020 and 64% down on

The Redhurst Hotel in Giffnock will open in May following a major £3 million refurbishment of the venue.

A couple could face a legal bill for £100,000 after they accused tenants of ruining their luxury flat with cigar smoke.

The Scottish Government has used its devolved tax and benefit powers to craft a more progressive system than is in place in the rest of the UK, according to the latest study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Sandy Kennedy, the chief executive of Entrepreneurial Scotland has annoucned he will stand down later this year as part of a planned succession that was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. In a briefing to stakeholders, Entrepreneurial Scotland chairman Colin Robertson said the group will be recrui

Scottish legal firm Anderson Strathern has hired European dealmaker Max Scharbert as a director in its Corporate practice. Mr Scharbert is a former corporate partner at Rooney Nimmo and is the longstanding chairman of the German British Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Scotland, and is qualified