Covid-19

Aberdeen-based design agency Dunclyde has been awarded more than £42,000 to develop its platform for helping local businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Dunclyde provides strategy-led brand and web design services to north-east and UK clients.

The majority of Scottish Financial News readers want to undertake more home working in the future, according to the results of our recent survey. 

Scotland’s GDP fell by 2.5% during the first quarter of this year, according to statistics announced today by Scotland's Chief Statistician.

The UK's inflation rate has hit a four-year low as the coronavirus lockdown restrictions pushed the rate down to 0.5% in May.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed the top scams fraudsters are committing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Firms must do more to ensure they are always giving appropriate advice to equity release consumers, a review conducted by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found. 

Cowgills has been appointed administrators of Aberdeen Market Village, throwing many of the city's market traders into uncertainty.  The firm has issued a statement confirming that the premises was placed into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation on June 11 and has now ceased trading.

Scotland's unemployment rate is now the highest in the UK, according to the latest Labour Market Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The UK is a world-leading FinTech centre, with London often being labelled the global FinTech capital. From a Scottish perspective, over the past couple of years both Edinburgh and Glasgow have been establishing themselves as FinTech powerhouses. Allie McGowan looks below at some of the ways that CO

A total of 60% of Scottish SMEs are experiencing drops in revenue and 73% have put the brakes on investment decisions, according to a survey conducted by Newable, a business advice and funding service.

Andrew Hill, lease advisory partner at Knight Frank's Edinburgh office, details the importance of collaboration between landlords and tenants during the coronavirus crisis. Times of extreme economic pressure tend to place a strain on business relationships. In the COVID-19 crisis we currently face,

Nationwide Building Society has offered around 200 redundancy packages to its staff in an attempt to avoid compulsory lay-offs. The lender, which is the UK's biggest building society, currently employes around 17,000 staff and hopes that enough employees will sign up for the redundancy programme, or

The government must introduce a new ‘jobs guarantee fund’ and expand apprenticeship, college and university places to protect the ‘COVID class of 2020’, according to research published today by IPPR Scotland.

Dundee-based EQ Accountants has claimed over £20 million of Research & Development tax credits for its clients. The firm, which has offices in Dundee, Forfar, Cupar and Glenrothes has secured over 360 claims for innovative companies who have undertaken problem-solving activities to adapt o

Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Infinity Partnership has made claims of more than £5 million on behalf of its clients since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. The firm has successfully claimed more than £2m in government grants and loans, while the rest is made up of fast-tracked res