This Thursday, the National Park Authority will bring together experts, local communities and landowners at its Balloch HQ to explore how Scotland can potentially harness green finance to deliver the large-scale environmental restoration critical to reversing biodiversity decline by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2045.
Economic and business conditions and expectations were weak at the end of 2024, leading to challenges to finding the pathway to growth in 2025, according to the Fraser of Allander Institute.
The UK has come ahead of Germany, China, and India to become the second most attractive country for global investment, trailing only the US, according to PwC’s annual UK CEO survey.
Insolvency levels in Scotland remained broadly stable in 2024 compared to the previous year, with 1,236 cases recorded, virtually unchanged from 1,234 in 2023.
A new report by Edinburgh-based digital assets platform Zumo has revealed a significant knowledge gap amongst crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) regarding the European Union’s incoming Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, specifically its sustainability requirements.
Smart Data Foundry (SDF) has been awarded £3 million funding to operate a new financial data service, enabling more researchers to study the financial health of millions of households across the UK, by providing secure access to financial behaviours, economic resilience, and regional economic activity.
A Scottish business tax adviser has warned that hundreds of thousands of Scottish businesses are unprepared for new real-time payroll reporting rules set to take effect in April 2026.
Lloyds Banking Group, owner of Bank of Scotland and the UK’s largest retail lender, is set to axe hundreds of jobs, as part of a major restructuring effort.
EQ Accountants has welcomed a record 14 new graduates and trainees in 2024, after receiving over 150 applications – more than six times the usual number.
Following the increases announced in the Autumn Budget to employer National Insurance Contributions and National Minimum Wage, UK businesses’ profit growth expectations remain low and many are looking to review employee costs across the board including implementing hiring freezes, according to Grant Thornton UK.
All Scottish councils must learn from the weaknesses that allowed an Aberdeen City Council employee’s £1.1 million fraud go undetected over 17 years, the Accounts Commission has urged.