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Aberdeen continues to lead the way as the city with the highest rate of innovative businesses across Scotland’s 32 local authority areas. A total of 250 Aberdeen companies (2.6 per cent of all enterprises in city), including SMEs and large businesses, claimed for R&D tax relief in the late

The Bank of England has today announced that interest rates are to remain at 0.75 per cent where they have been since the Bank of England last raised them by a quarter of a percentage point last August. At the moment, the Bank said it is expecting just one rise in interest rates by 2021.

Young workers are unaware of the rights they hold within their workplaces, new research from UIA Mutual Insurance has found.

A new report has revealed that online retail giant Amazon uses a stringent set of metrics built into its vast dispatch hubs to not only track the performance of workers in the warehouses but to automatically fire them if they fail to meet certain standards.

A health care provider with 32 homes throughout Scotland has collapsed into administration. Four Seasons Health Care (FSHC) has eight homes in Glasgow, six in Fife, five in Aberdeenshire and four in Edinburgh which could all be affected along with others in Ayrshire and Lothian.

KPMG been slammed in yet another audit case and fined £6 million by the Financial Reporting Council which has also "severely reprimanded" the so-called 'Big Four' firm. The accountancy regulator also ordered the firm to undertake an internal review over the way it audited insurance compan

The Scottish Government has launched an ambitious growth plan that will aim to increase the value of exports from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of Scotland’s GDP over the next 10 years.

Britain’s free-to-use ATM network is on course to be decimated in the coming months unless urgent action is taken to protect access to cash, new research from consumer watchdog Which? has revealed.

The Scottish economy grew by 1.3 per cent last year, coming up just short of the UK figure of 1.4 per cent, new official figures from the Scottish government have revealed.

New official figures have revealed that the business rate poundage is at its highest in two decades. In response to a written parliamentary question published on the Scottish Parliament website, ministers confirmed that both the headline poundage/tax rate and the large business rates supplement have

In 2019 Quarter 1, the quantity of retail sales in Scotland grew by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous quarter, according to the Retail Sales Index Scotland (RSIS) which was published today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.

A Glasgow spin-out which is pioneering a new test to detect brain cancer and other forms of cancer has secured a £1.2m investment in a syndicated round including Mercia Fund Managers, the Scottish Investment Bank’s Co-Investment Fund and EOS Technology Partners which led the transaction.

Construction work has started on the £40 million leisure development at St Enoch Centre in Glasgow. Set to add 30,000 sq ft to the centre, bringing the overall space to 880,000 sq ft, the revamp will introduce a nine-screen Vue cinema, nine restaurants as well as new retail and

Law firm TLT, with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has announced a new partnership with asset management and fact-finding experts to provide a resolution for interest-only mortgage product lenders. The new partnership, with Spicerhaart Corporate Sales and Excel, is aimed at ass

Kate Forbes, Minister for Public Finance and Digital Economy has visited the Edinburgh headquarters of Scottish finTech firm Origo, the company responsible for a number of critical tech-based services for the financial services sector. Ms Forbes met with Origo managing director Anthony Raf