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The Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) recorded a five-year high in complaints last year, with more than 388,000 people bringing complaints, up 14 per cent on the year before. The rise was driven by an 89 per cent rise in complaints about consumer credit products and services, including payday lende

Data published by HMRC has revealed the hotspots for R&D tax relief claims across Scotland. Businesses based in the City of Edinburgh topped the league for the number of claims for R&D tax credits in 2016-17 at 425 claims, followed by Glasgow City on 335 and Aberdeen City on 250.

Permanent staff appointments in Scotland expanded at the fastest rate in the year-to-date during April, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

The Scottish retail sector had its highest ever quarter for insolvencies in the first three months of 2019, according to new analysis of the sector by accountants and business advisers French Duncan. In Q1 28 retailers were made insolvent which is already over 40 per cent of the entire figure for 20

Henderson Loggie have been appointed as liquidators to SGM Distribution which has ceased trading with the loss of 16 jobs. The courier business, which has depots in Letham and Aberdeen and a fleet of 47 delivery vehicles, has been experiencing increasingly difficult trading conditions since expandin

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

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.

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress in the country in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the latest data from insolvency s

Property market activity in Edinburgh is at its highest level since the credit crunch and shows no sign of slowing down because of Brexit, according to Warners Solicitors & Estate Agents.

Edinburgh-based wealth manger Brooks Macdonald has reported an 8 per cent increase in funds under management for the first quarter of the year. Latest figures show that as at 31 March 2019, the firm’s discretionary manager’s funds now stand at £12.8bn - an increase of 7.9

Sector conditions in Scottish commercial property remain highly varied, with industrial property and office space seeing solid growth and retail continuing to show little sign of improvement, according to the Q1 2019 RICS UK Commercial Property Market Survey.

The overall number of Scots facing insolvency in the first quarter of 2019 rose 29.2 per cent compared to the first quarter in 2018, according the latest Accountant in Bankruptcy figures released today. The AiB figures reveal that personal insolvencies rose from the 2,533 recorded in the first three

Police are warning that anyone can become a victim of bogus callers after authorities revealed figures showing Scottish householders lost more than £700,000 in just six months to doorstep scams.

The Scottish housing market was still subdued in March, a picture that has been evident in the sales market for several months now, according to the RICS UK Residential Market Survey, March 2019.

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce has promoted Charandeep Singh to the new role of deputy chief executive as the business group focuses on growing the reach of the Scottish Chamber Network nationally and internationally. Mr Singh will take on the newly created role with immediate effect.