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The University of Edinburgh is taking steps to ensure that the goods it buys do not contain so-called conflict minerals. The move – a first for a UK university – will seek to put pressure on suppliers to eradicate minerals associated with financing wars in Africa from their supply chains.

Philip Rodney Burness Paull LLP has secured its position as Scotland’s biggest and busiest transactional corporate law firm in Business Insider’s list of the top performing legal dealmakers.

Global property buyers are being attracted to Scottish property assets, priming commercial buildings for investment, according to law firm HBJ Gateley. Paul Ockrim, a partner in the real estate team at HBJ Gateley, said foreign investors with cash to spend viewed the relative stability and prosperit

Fourteen months on from when oil prices began to tumble, the impacts are not only being felt by the oil and gas industry but increasingly by other sectors. So what can the Chancellor do on 16 March?

The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) is calling on the government to create the first ever Real Estate Forum, which will provide real estate industry with a clear and collective path of travel. The SPF believes the forum can provide the impetus to restore jobs in the sector and economic impact bac

Ruth Davidson Ruth Davidson is to set out the Scottish Conservatives’ plans for Holyrood’s new tax powers when she addresses the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB) UK Conference in Glasgow next week.

The Scottish National Party has said it will use a Westminster debate today to call for a 2 per cent cut to excise duty on spirits at the Budget next week in a bid to boost the Scotch whisky industry. Led by SNP MP Brendan O’Hara, Chair of the Scotch Whisky APPG, the debate will recognise the impo

New white paper report finds alarming number of non-retired over-60s feel unprepared for their retirement. 39 per cent of UK’s non-retired over-60s population don’t know how much money they have in their pension pot, whilst 29 per cent are not aware of the pension freedoms which came into force

A new report, commissioned by the British Air Transport Association, has backed Scottish Government proposals to reduce Air Passenger Duty by half over the next Parliament would provide a boost to the Scottish economy. Responding to publication of the report, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen Airports

New legislation introducing a tax supplement on purchases of additional residential properties has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.

The value the finance function delivers to an organisation is changing fast and this will have a significant impact on resource planning, day-to-day operational finance, business and financial analysis, innovation and information and systems, according to Finance 2020: closer than you think, a new r

Nicola Sturgeon Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has today claimed that the foundations of Scotland’s economy remain strong despite new official figures revealing the impact of the global slump in oil prices on the nation’s revenues.

The Law Society of Scotland has said the effects of an additional tax on second homes should be monitored closely to ensure that people who are simply trying to move house are not caught out by the proposed new charge. The lawyers' body intervened ahead of the stage 3 debate on the Land and Building

People’s differences have been celebrated by Aberdeen Asset Management as part of firm's efforts to celebrate International Women’s Day today. The theme of the 2016 International Women’s Day campaign is #PledgeForParity and respecting and valuing differences in the workplace.

Patrick Graham and Sandy Kennedy. (Picture: Robert Perry) Scotland’s entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a major new partnership between the Business Growth Fund, the UK’s most active provider of growth capital, and Entrepreneurial Scotland.