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The independent chair of a commission tasked with tackling poverty in Edinburgh has called for the introduction of strict rent controls in the city. Dr Jim McCormick said that high housing costs has been singled out by the Edinburgh Poverty Commission as the biggest barrier to lifting

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Nationwide Building Society has today announced that it has invested in Ordo, an innovative payment request service launching later this year that connects billers to payers using apps and secure messaging, putting billers and their customers back in control of their payments. Ordo pr

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The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) recent intervention following an outcry over conflicts of interest in the wake of a string of scandals involving Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG may be challenged in the courts by the so-called ‘Big Four’ ac

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Innovate Finance, FinTech Scotland and FinTech North have today announced the creation of a national network that the trio say will encourage innovators up and down the country to connect and form multiple FinTech hubs and centres of excellence. The FinTech National Network will foster collaboration

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Eileen Blackburn and Brian Milne, of accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP, have been appointed joint administrators of Edinburgh-based Big Data for Humans. Big Data for Humans, which has four employees, provided data science services for customer marketing specialising in retaile

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Three executives at Metro bank have had their bonuses frozen as an investigation over accounting errors at the lender rumbles on. Shares worth about £480,000 had been due to chief executive Craig Donaldson, and about £250,000 each for finance director David Arden and his predecessor

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Scottish independent wrap platform provider, Nucleus, has today published latest figures showing that it has grown its assets under administration during the first three months of the year to £14.8bn, up 9.1 per cent over Q1 2018 and 6.3 per cent on the previous quarter. By comparison, th

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New figures have been published showing that a quarter of all Scots are today struggling to make it to their next payday on their current income. Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) conducted a YouGov survey last month that questioned over 2,000 Scots aged 18+.

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Global tax and law firm CMS has announced the promotion of four Scottish-based lawyers to the role of partner. Paula Kidd and Carol Nisbet, from the firm’s Aberdeen offices, along with Mark McMurray and Jenny Walker, who are based in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, will all become partners

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The Scottish Government is to create a £150 million national pilot scheme to provide support for first-time buyers and has also launched a consultation of short-term lets. Under the scheme, which will be launched later this year, buyers will be required to fund a minimum of 5% of the

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