Financial services: our IT and technology offering

"We are delighted to announce the opening of our Development Centre of Excellence in Glasgow. Scotland has a long-established financial services sector community, superb infrastructure, great universities and a wonderful can-do attitude; we are excited by the potential we have found here. This, coupled with the excellent support provided by the Scottish Government, made it the ideal location for Odyssey." James Thomson, Odyssey Financial Technologies

Scotland is one of Europe's leading financial centres and is internationally recognised as the most important UK financial centre outside London and the South East.

The sector performs strongly against UK and international benchmarks while attracting investment from some of the largest and most important global financial organisations.

Increasingly this investment recognises Scotland's position as an innovative centre for the use of IT and technolgy in the financial services sector.

Financial services ompanies with a significant IT/software presence in Scotland include:

• Aegon UK
• Barclays Wealth
• Intelligent Finance
• JP Morgan
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Morgan Stanley
• Odyssey Financial Technologies
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Scottish Widows
• Standard Life
• State Street
• Tesco Bank