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New figures show that Scotland is continuing to make progress in reducing the number of employees on zero hours contracts. The Office for National Statistics' report, Contracts with No Guaranteed Hours: Autumn 2015, shows that during the fourth quarter of 2015 Scotland had the lowest proportion of p

Sarah Speirs Activity in the Scottish housing market is set to see slower growth over the next three months, following a short-term rush for buy-to-let properties, the latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed.

Scottish school children will be encouraged to manage their money from an early age through a new Junior Savers Scheme. Credit unions will be able to bid for a share of £300,000 Scottish Government funding to develop savers schemes in schools across the country next year.

Europe is divided on the UK remaining part of the single market, were it to leave the European Union, research carried out by the University of Edinburgh suggests. Nearly half of Germans surveyed are in favour of a post-Brexit UK staying in this trading bloc, but only a quarter of French respondents

Lindsay Gardiner Scotland is set to outperform Wales, Northern Ireland and the North-East in terms of economic output, but with growth still below the UK average, according to PwC’s latest UK Economic Outlook report.

Gerard Kelly (left) with Scott Miller The former head of the Scottish Investment Bank is moving to a senior executive position in one of the UK’s biggest recruitment firms.

Blair Nimmo Head of KPMG’s restructuring practice in Scotland, Blair Nimmo, has been appointed by the global firm as the new boss of its UK restructuring business.

Union Street, Aberdeen. Incentives for occupiers in the Aberdeen office market have hit record levels as the city’s commercial property sector faces a perfect storm, according to a newly published study by Knight Frank.

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Tax that the UK Supreme Court today ruled should have been paid on bonuses handed out over a decade ago will now have to be paid by investment banking giants Deutsche Bank and UBS. The bonuses were paid to investment bankers via offshore accounts in the form of shares to avoid attracting income tax

The University of Edinburgh is taking steps to ensure that the goods it buys do not contain so-called conflict minerals. The move – a first for a UK university – will seek to put pressure on suppliers to eradicate minerals associated with financing wars in Africa from their supply chains.

Philip Rodney Burness Paull LLP has secured its position as Scotland’s biggest and busiest transactional corporate law firm in Business Insider’s list of the top performing legal dealmakers.

Global property buyers are being attracted to Scottish property assets, priming commercial buildings for investment, according to law firm HBJ Gateley. Paul Ockrim, a partner in the real estate team at HBJ Gateley, said foreign investors with cash to spend viewed the relative stability and prosperit

Fourteen months on from when oil prices began to tumble, the impacts are not only being felt by the oil and gas industry but increasingly by other sectors. So what can the Chancellor do on 16 March?

The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) is calling on the government to create the first ever Real Estate Forum, which will provide real estate industry with a clear and collective path of travel. The SPF believes the forum can provide the impetus to restore jobs in the sector and economic impact bac