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The UK’s GDP fell by 19.1% in the three months to May this year during the lockdown period.

A round-up of business news from across Scotland featuring: Breathe Easy’s new headquarters, Scottish SME's IoT programme success, Aymeric Renoud's beer by-product furniture project, Hop Software’s COVID-secure hotel system, Johnstons of Elgin’s 2019 results and Diag

Accountancy firm Haines Watts Scotland has appointed Craig Hunter as audit partner. Mr Hunter has assumed the role of audit partner from 1 April 2020 in the newly formed Haines Watts Scotland Audit LLP with the primary objective of continuing to provide a high-quality audit offering to the existing

Scottish companies listed on the FTSE index underperformed the market in the first half of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the economy, according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin.  The wealth manager found that Scottish organisations on the FTSE averaged a share

Independent fixed income manager Cameron Hume has discussed how attitudes to climate risk can be factored into long term investment decisions and whether those investment decisions can be used to drive the direction of travel with a global response to climate risk.

Future work for accountancy and finance professionals is set to be transformed for the better through an increase in the adoption of digital technologies, according to a new report from The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and EY. 

Research from the Royal Bank of Scotland's Tyl service has signalled that Scotland's business recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic will be powered by contactless payments.

Moscow housing officials have been accused of embezzling money from the city budget by using invisible ink on contracts.

Police slapped partygoers with fines worth nearly €23,000 in total after an unusually large order from KFC raised suspicions.

New research from NFU Mutual has found that just 37.6% of adults in Scotland have ISAs, compared to a UK average of 42.1%.

The UK's inflation rate rose to 0.6% in June as the coronavirus lockdown restrictions began to ease.

Skyscanner has announced that it will be cutting up to 84 jobs at its Edinburgh head office. The move is part of a cost-cutting exercise which will see the online travel agent cut one-fifth of its total workforce. 

Four projects led by Apollo, Blackfish Engineering Design, Nova Innovation and Quoceant will share just under £1.4 million of funding from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) for initiatives that aim to bring down the cost of wave power.

Nimesh Shah, partner at Blick Rothenberg, discusses the implications of tax simplification ahead of chancellor Rishi Sunak's tax 'raid'. The Chancellor has asked the Office of Tax Simplification (‘OTS’) to review the Capital Gains Tax (‘CGT’) rul

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a Property Taxes Round-Up on 21 July 2020 from 1pm to 2pm. At this event Carl Bayley, BSc, FCA, will explore: Carl is a past chairman of the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and