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France is to give employees the "right to disconnect" from checking emails after work as the level of “burn-out” among workers in the country raises concerns. The country’s labour ministry is devising proposals to preserve the 35-hour working week.

National Australia Bank no longer has any shares in Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank after sale manager Morgan Stanley exercised an over-allotment option. NAB had granted the option in respect of 28,673,323 ordinary shares at the offer price of 180 pence per ordinary share, worth £52m in total.

George Kerevan An SNP MP has said the Bank of England should be renamed to reflect its status as a UK-wide institution, the Sunday Post reports.

Investors have welcomed the long-awaited public trading of Clydesdale Bank after bosses brushed off a brief delay over credit rating concerns. Shares in Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group (CYBG) closed 5 per cent up to 192p last night after its debut on the London Stock Exchange yesterday mornin

Edinburgh University officials have been forced to scrap a plan calling on tutors to leak private information about students who told them about debt problems. Lecturers were instructed to pass the information of hundreds of students who had fallen behind in their tuition fee payments on to official

Gary Le Sueur Inspiring Scotland, the Scottish venture philanthropy firm, has appointed Gary Le Sueur of Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) to its board of directors.

Scottish brewer, bar operator and crowdfunding pioneer BrewDog has revealed that it is still £11.5m short of reaching a record £25m fundraising target set for April through its latest self-styled "Equity for Punks" drive. The Aberdeenshire-based firm said on its website that the £13.5m raised so

Holyrood’s Finance Committee has called for a wide ranging debate on taxation policy following the implementation of new financial powers arising from the Smith Commission. The committee issued the call in its report on the Scottish government’s draft budget for 2016-17, published today.

David Beckham Their days of whipping free-kicks past goalkeepers and storming the pop charts might be long behind them but that didn’t stop David and Victoria Beckham making a staggering £61,644 every day last year.

Brian Sutherland The new finance director of taxpayer-owned Prestwick Airport has quit just weeks after taking up his post.

Ian Marchant Ian Marchant, former chief executive of energy giant SSE, has made his first investment in social enterprise, backing a community bakery in Edinburgh.

Katherine Garrett-Cox Dundee-based Alliance Trust has announced that it is on track to deliver combined savings for the investment business of at least £6m for 2016.

John Cairns John Cairns is a tax partner at French Duncan Chartered Accountants

John Swinney As George Osborne prepares to deliver the UK government’s Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending Review later today, Scotland's deputy first minister John Swinney has renewed calls to the Chancellor to halt the programme of austerity and invest in infrastructure to help the econo

Data from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has revealed global defaults on debts have reached the second highest level in a decade. According to S&P, 99 companies this year have defaulted on their debt.