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Caroline Lucas The Scottish government has called on Westminster leaders to “pause” the privatisation of the Green Investment Bank to allow Parliamentary scrutiny of the sale.

Jenny Laing Senior figures representing Aberdeen City Council are to open the London Stock Exchange tomorrow to mark the Granite City’s pioneering bond issue.

Lord Malcolm A consumer from Aberdeen whose legal dispute over the purchase and return of a laptop 18 years ago spawned a litigation which ended up in the UK Supreme Court has failed in a £600,000 action against the bank which he claimed “annihilated” his credit rating. Richard Durkin, 46, who

Katy Wedderburn The UK government has published the final draft of the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, which are set to come into force in April 2017 and which will see larger employers reporting on their gender pay gap, explains Katy Wedderburn.

Scotgold Resources, which his running Scotland’s first commercial gold mine, has struck its first major deal with a metal trader.

Ewan MacDonald-Russell The Scottish Retail Consortium has renewed its calls for a lowering of business rates after it emerged that the tax revenue the Scottish Government generates each year from the large firms’ business rates supplement has soared from £14.4 million to £124.8 million over the

Moira Kelly The tax implications for Scotland of leaving the EU are ‘detailed and complex’ and could have significant consequences for Scottish businesses and taxpayers, the body representing the country’s tax professionals has warned MSPs.

A Dundee businessman jailed following his conviction in a £26 million fraud case has now been declared bankrupt.

The vice president for finance at a Scottish oil industry firm who was branded “greedy” by a judge and jailed for more than three years for embezzling more than £1.3 million from her employers has been ordered to repay nearly £600,000 of her criminal gains.

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), the venture capital firm behind some of the UK’s major high growth technology companies, has announced that it has raised £260 million for a new fund, SEP V.

Amyas Morse The taxman is going after £2 billion in taxes unpaid by the super-rich, according to the public spending watchdog.

Gresham House, the specialist asset manager, has announced the first close of the Gresham House Forestry Fund LP with £15 million of commitments and finance raised for the strategy from university college endowment funds, family offices and private individuals, including £1.25 million from the ma

Glasgow-based football club Celtic has succumbed to pressure from a fan campaign to pay the new living wage of £8.25.

Staff at Standard Life have handed over a cheque for £558, 000 to Scope and Capability Scotland.

Chris Smith Grant Thornton has called for wide ranging reforms, including greater tax simplification, to boost growth in Scotland’s fragile property and construction sector.