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Blair Milne, Glasgow-based Corporate Insolvency Partner at international accountancy and business advisory group Azets, discusses the latest Scottish corporate insolvency figures published this week. While the fall in corporate insolvencies is an encouraging sign, it would be wrong to interpret the

Scottish Financial News speaks to Teresa Gilligan about her career journey, Aberdeen's evolving energy industry and the opportunities facing Scotland's professional services sector. When Teresa Gilligan describes a journey that led to her joining independent UK accountancy and business advisory firm

Amie Brown, a senior associate in MFMac's Commercial Real Estate team, focuses on the impact recent reforms in upward-only rent reviews in England and Wales will have in Scotland. The recent decision to ban upward-only rent review clauses in English commercial leases marks a huge development in prop

Andy Burnham made his first significant speech as Prime Minister assumptive last week, vowing to create a “No10 North” to relocate power from Westminster into the hands of the people and places who can use it best. Aiming for “good growth in every postcode” and greater devolu

Wealth management experts are reporting a rise in enquiries from investors in Scotland worried about a cut in valuable tax relief typically used to plan for later life.

With phase one of Making Tax Digital (MTD) well underway, it’s essential that businesses are ready for the much-publicised changes, according to Esme Ball, tax manager at Hall Morrice. For many landlords, reporting to HMRC is traditionally a task that needs attention once a year, but the intro

Financial disputes do not always arise from complex lending structures or security arrangements. Sometimes they emerge from something far more fundamental: whether a contractual obligation to pay has actually become due. An issue which recurs in banking and finance transactions concerns the relation

Standard Life chief executive Andy Briggs has attempted to allay concerns about what the acquisition of rival pensions company Aegon UK will mean for the two businesses.  The £2 billion deal announced in April has left employees and the wider sector awaiting news of what impact the tie-up

Scottish Financial News speaks to Tom Faichnie, co-founder of Quantify Advisors, about eschewing the traditional path of big financial services to build an agile, relationship-driven corporate finance firm. In an era when multinational advisory practices can often feel process-driven and detached fr

The UK government's temporary 5% VAT reduction on children's meals and family attractions, while providing positive PR and modest savings for consumers, ultimately creates frustrating administrative complexities and burdensome compliance costs for the businesses tasked with implementing it, writes G

The UK government has, over the past year, taken a notably more deliberate approach to mobilising private capital and philanthropy for social good, writes Mark McKeown. From a Scottish perspective, however, it exposes a familiar fault line in UK policy. Devolution means that, in its current form, th

Jamie Marshall puts forward the case that tokenised funds represent a historic opportunity for Scotland's fund management sector to cement its position as a global leader in financial innovation, but warns that the window to act is closing and decisive industry adoption is essential to not lose grou

Scottish Financial Enterprise chief executive Sandy Begbie has urged the new Scottish Government to put economic growth at the heart of its agenda. In a wide-ranging interview with Daily Business ahead of the new parliamentary term, Mr Begbie warns that Scotland cannot afford another five years of t

Ross Stupart discusses the divergence in economic and fiscal policies among Scotland’s political parties ahead of the upcoming election, looking at how competing views on income tax, property reform, and energy policy create a landscape of both risk and opportunity for businesses and investors

Global sport is powered not just by competition, but innovation – and World IP Day highlights the critical need to protect the talent, entrepreneurship and technology behind all of that work, writes Alastair Smith Fine margins are everything in elite sport. We will see that on the global stage