Search: raise

The retail sector of the UK's commercial property market continues to decline in the face of increased online spending, while solid demand is still reported across the industrial sector, according to the latest RICS UK Commercial Property Market Survey.

Scottish Building Society today announced that Paul Denton has been officially appointed as its new chief executive officer. Paul, who has more than 25 years experience in the banking sector, took up the reins after formal regulatory approval with a pledge to focus on personalised customer service.

Think-tank IPPR Scotland has today called for urgent action to deliver inclusive growth in Scotland by tackling low pay, which would boost the economy and increase tax revenues. In a report published today, supported by the Scottish Policy Foundation, researchers at Scotland’s progressive thin

New figures from the Student Loans Company have revealed that total publicly owned student debt in Scotland has hit over £5.5 billion.

Global real estate agency CBRE has announced that it has acquired 120 West Regent Street, a multi-let prime office investment in the heart of Glasgow’s Central Business District, on behalf of West Ranga Property Group.

Donna Nairn, Alan Burns and Sarah Fergusson of William Duncan & Co's Ayr office took on The Mighty Stride at this years Glasgow Kiltwalk at the weekend.

Baillie Gifford’s £8 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust achieved a total return on net asset value of 14.6 per cent for the year to March 31. This was ahead of a 10.7 per cent total return on its benchmark, the FTSE All-world Index in sterling terms.

The rising prominence of so-called ‘zombie firms’ – companies under sustained financial strain – is threatening to cause a significant drag-effect on the UK economy, new analysis from KPMG has found. A look at the last three annual accounts of listed UK companies (FTSE and AI

Some taxpayers in Wales have been paying the wrong rate of tax after having the Scottish tax code mistakenly applied to them, HMRC has admitted. The Welsh Rates of Income Tax (WRIT) was introduced in April 2019, three years after the introduction of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT) in 2016.

Jason Collins, partner at Pinsent Masons, looks at efforts to ensure tech giants pay their taxes HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) believes that US-based multinational businesses may have underpaid £4.6 billion of UK tax last year, up 35 per cent from £3.4bn in 2017.Figures obtai

Glasgow healthcare data start-up, Talking Medicines, founded by Jo Halliday, Scott Crae and Elizabeth Fairley, has secured its first institutional investment as part of a new funding round worth £622,000 to support the next stage of its growth. Back left – Rob Halliday SIS Vent

Still more than 60 per cent state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) could be facing a raft of equal pay claims after being ordered to payout £150,000 following a long-running equal pay case involving a female support analyst. The case supported by Unite the union's legal services was brought

A group of Scottish-based female business founders are celebrating after winning top honours at this year AccelerateHER Awards. Rachel Jones of SnapDragon; Lina Gasiunaite of Biotangents; and Corien Staels of Staels Design were winners of the 2019 awards which recognise female business founders in

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is opposing a major shake-up of the operations of the so-called ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms, has been the recipient of more than £50 million in fines levied on those firms as a result of their botched audit

Controversial plans to cut the amount of tax paid by passengers flying from Scottish airports have been scrapped by First Minster Nicola Sturgeon in favour of tackling climate change but putting her on a collision course with Scotland’s business leaders.