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During lockdown, people in the UK have experienced a significant spike in impersonation scams, with June seeing a surge in the monthly figures for scams involving con artists pretending to be police or bank staff, according to a new report from Barclays. 

Roland Smyth, head of Scottish hotels & leisure group at law firm CMS, provides some tips for bars and restaurant owners who are planning to reopen their businesses this week.  The hospitality sector, which has suffered immensely from the coronavirus lockdown, is set to reopen this week. Th

Whisky giant Diageo has announced that it will be allocating £4 million of funding for pubs and bars in Scotland as part of a global initiative to help the hospitality sector recover from the coronavirus crisis. 

Economy secretary Fiona Hyslop and finance secretary Kate Forbes have written to the UK Government to call for assurances that Scottish companies and workers will not be disadvantaged when decisions are made about scaling back the UK-wide Job Retention Scheme. The letter to Chancellor Rishi Sun

Neil Mitchinson, managing director at Edinburgh Asset Finance is the next participant in our Just a Minute feature. Name: 

As the coronavirus lockdown continues giving many businesses restricted or no option to trade, Angela Paterson, associate director of Dunedin Advisory, specialist restructuring and insolvency advisors, highlights a potential lifeline to consider – a CVA. A CVA is a procedure governed by Insolv

The CBI has outlined a comprehensive range of measures aimed at accelerating emergency support to distressed firms amid the continuing COVID-19 crisis.

New findings from TSB reveal that over two-fifths of people in the UK (42%) suspect they have been targeted by a phishing attack during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Scottish Government has announced that it will make a further £220 million of grants available for businesses including those with multiple branches after business objections that Scotland did not match the English support scheme.   The new package of measures includes £120

Efforts are under way to help prevent further disruption to the buying and selling of homes across Scotland after Registers of Scotland (RoS) temporarily closed the application record and the UK Government advised home buyers and renters to delay moving unless the new property is empty.

The University of Strathclyde's Fraser of Allander Institute has said that due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, we should expect a significant impact on the economy.

The two private finance initiative (PFI) hospitals that Carillion was building at the time it collapsed are currently due for completion at vastly increased budgets with most of the increased costs being met by the contractor and private PFI investors, a National Audit Office (NAO) investigatio

Kingdom Housing Association’s Nick Pollard discusses whether the law regarding Mid-Market Renting in Scotland is outdated, counter-productive and detrimental to the affordable housing sector and its tenants and participants. The Housing (Scotland) Acts provide for the development of Mid-Market

Equal pay claims have certain special features, and the case of Graysons Restaurants Ltd v Jones and others highlights what that means in an insolvency context. Equal pay claims are based on discrimination principles but are basically breach of contract claims. They also have a unique treatment unde

Andrew Reynolds, Wealth Manager at French Duncan, makes the case for alternatives to cash holdings