Financial Services

Scotland has a long established international presence in financial services markets and is currently Europe’s fifth largest financial services centre.

Latest News

Funding available to train your employees
The Flexible Training Opportunities programme gives Scottish businesses with 1-50 employees the opportunity to apply for up to £500 towards employee training costs.
24 August 2010
Scottish ICT industry strategy launched
The strategy provides a framework for the development of the Scottish ICT sector. It has been created by the ICT Industry Advisory Group, representative of the constituent groups that make up the software, telecommunications and IT services industries.
26 July 2010
CBI Scotland Business Summit 2010
The inaugural CBI Scotland Business Summit will take place on 2 June 2010 at the Hilton Hotel, Glasgow. The Summit is the first stand-alone event of its kind in Scotland and will be an unprecedented occasion for Scotland’s business community to meet, network and discover the new opportunities within today’s marketplace.
05 May 2010

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Latest Events

Going4Growth - Borders

Going4Growth Borders is targeted at entrepreneurs and will provide delegates with the chance to hear and learn from a panel of successful, local entrepreneurs as well as having opportunities to network.

date: 06 October 2010
Venue: Tweed Horizons, St Boswells, Newton St Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 0SG
Managing People for Growth - Dumfries and Galloway

Managing People for Growth is a programme of workshops designed to help organisations maximise the potential of their people managers, to allow them to become fully effective and to give them the tools and attitudes to continue that development throughout their career.

The Managing People for Growth programme will run from September 2010 to January 2011. There are four mandatory workshops plus four optional workshops and an optional review session.

date: 14 September 2010
Venue: Cairndale Hotel, English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2DF,
Annual review 2009-2010

This year we will be publishing a video Annual Review and hosting an online Q&A forum instead of our traditional Annual Public Meeting. Our chairman, Crawford Gillies, will be joined by chief executive Lena Wilson to answer your questions via an online forum, live from 2.30 pm on Tuesday 14 September.

date: 14 September 2010
Venue: This year we will be publishing a video Annual Review and hosting an online Q&A forum instead of our traditional Annual Public Meeting.

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Financial Services

Scotland’s financial services industry continues to grow apace – and continues to be the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy. The industry here is ably supported by a modern infrastructure, highly skilled workforce, world-class reputation and record of innovation. It is the home to some of the world’s largest banks, insurers and asset management firms.

Beyond our traditional strengths in banking, insurance and investment management, Scotland has more recently emerged as a centre of excellence in customer service with esure, The Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan and Lloyds Banking Group all establishing a presence in Glasgow’s International Financial Services Centre.

We work with a range of organisations to encourage development in the sector and are involved in a broad programme of activities and initiatives to help existing business to grow and help new businesses to locate here.