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Brent oil is trading at just $18.36 per barrel, down 25% today alone after US crude oil plummeted to hit a negative value for the first time in history.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the final report on its investigation in to Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) treatment of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers transferred to its Global Restructuring Group (GRG). The now notorious GRG has already been the su

More than 20 of Scotland’s largest businesses, representing tens of thousands of staff, have pledged to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health in the workplace through a groundbreaking initiative which has been welcomed by the Scottish Government.

The UK government and Scottish Chamber of Commerce will today call on Scottish businesses to make their voices heard in post-Brexit free trade agreements.   The Department for International Trade has announced that the Scottish Chamber of C

A major new report by commercial property consultancy CBRE asserts Scotland’s strengths as a leading technology sector destination, with the country’s two principal cities ranked second and third in the UK outside London.

With Brexit producing a year of twists and turns, the only certainty about 2019 is that the outlook for businesses across Scotland remains uncertain, according to independent Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers Johnston Carmichael “The big imponderable is Brexit and what sort of i

Greg McNally Greg McNally, a VAT Partner at Campbell Dallas looks ahead to the implications of new VAT laws set to come into force in 12 months time

Aberdeen and Edinburgh have ranked in the top ten UK cities in which to live and work for a fourth consecutive year, according to the latest Good Growth for Cities index, produced by PwC and think-tank, Demos.

Paul Brown Paul Brown is a partner at Anderson Strathern

Scottish businesses are waking up to the stark reality of leaving the European Union today, despite 62 per cent of voters north of the border backing ‘Remain’. The result prompted First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to declare Scotland had delivered a "strong, unequivocal vote" to remain in the EU.

Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, CBI Scotland has issued a clear challenge to Scotland’s party leaders to make growth and competitiveness the central pillar of the election campaign, as well as asking parties to commit to tangible pro-business policies in their respective manife

Andrew Morrison discusses key business sale trends anticipated for 2025, including factors such as tax changes, generational shifts, technological advancements, and economic uncertainties. After selling my AM Bid business in July 2023, I worked a planned transition exit year, then launched Business

Fairlie Curved, a Scottish fashion company is now shipping internationally and has hailed turnover of a quarter of a million pounds after receiving support from Business Gateway. Jayne Lasley launched Fairlie Curved as an Instagram page in October 2020, inspired by her personal experience of struggl

New data from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has shown an increase in both corporate and personal insolvencies. Corporate insolvencies rose to 270 for Q2 2022-23 up from 221 for the same period last year, a significant increase of 28%. Likewise total personal insolvencies reached 2,069, a 7.7% y

Glasgow-based residential architecture start-up HOKO is set to begin an ambitious UK expansion plan after securing £400,000 in funding from investors. The funding will allow the technology-enabled architecture platform to begin a major recruitment drive in a struggling sector.