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Alex Docherty, tax partner at Johnston Carmichael, wrote for The Courier and Advertiser about concerns over farmhouse tax relief.

Wylie & Bisset has advised small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who supply to larger businesses to conduct an urgent review of their business strategy and crisis planning in the wake of the collapse of Thomas Cook. The chartered accountants are urging businesses to conduct such a review in

AG Barr said its 3% share increase is down to shoppers' willingness to pay more for Irn Bru.

Life sciences company ODx is opening a new medical technology research and development centre in Inverness. The opening of the centre will create over 30 highly-skilled jobs within the next three years. The centre will require engineers, microbiologists, data scientists and lab technicians.

UK public finances saw a rare recent improvement in August as the budget deficit (measured in terms of PSNBex) dipped modestly to £6.4 billion from £6.9bn in August 2018, according to EY ITEM Club.

A group of 16 Scotland-based entrepreneurial leaders will travel to the USA next week to take part in a programme at Boston’s Babson College, the world’s number-one ranked school of entrepreneurship. The visit, which will take place from October 1-8 is facilitated by Unlocking Ambition a

London-based fintech startup, Glint, has gone into administration.

Scottish Friendly has announced that it has hired Kirsty Polley as the new head of client services. Kirsty Polley has over 15 years’ experience in financial services, across wealth management and business process outsourcing.

RBS has provided Falkirk-based commercial property investment and consultancy firm Bellair with £1.2 million of funding to purchase two new properties. The two properties are located in Juniper Green and Corstorphine and are 6,169 sq. ft. and 3,842 sq. ft. respectively. The properties are both

Douglas Home & Co (DH&Co) has welcomed three new trainees to the firm following the success of last year’s programme. The firm welcomed Jessica Howlett, Jake Kerr and Rhys Lawrence to the team in September.

Stuart Gillies, an associate at CMS, wrote for The Scotsman, on how the burgeoning Fintech industry is set to plunge the corporate world into a tech-driven revolution. Fintech, the use of technology in the delivery of financial services, is thriving. Companies and products such as Monzo and App

Clyde & Co has entered into an agreement to transfer its Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen estate agency team to Ledingham Chalmers LLP from 4 November this year. All 12 Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen staff, including property partner David Geddie and senior associate Lynne Stewart, will transfer a

The British fintech sector faces a shortfall of talent, according to a census of UK fintech firms conducted by EY and Innovate Finance.

Scotland's food and drink sector is growing three times faster than the whole of the Scottish economy in the last decade, the RBS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has revealed. The bank's PMI was at 53.5 in August, which surpassed the all-manufacturing reading of 49.6.

Last weekend, the number of daily subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News broke through 7,000 on the back of record website traffic for August with 69,209 unique visitors accessing the website. The number of Twitter followers for Scottish Housing News, which was established in 20