Scottish Financial Enterprise’s growth strategy update shows Scotland’s financial and professional services sector has created 21,000 additional jobs since 2023, while increasing its economic contribution to £17.7 billion. Our chief executive Sandy Begbie CBE is calling on the UK and Scottish governments to work together to build on this progress and support further growth.

Scottish Financial Enterprise's Impact Report 2025–26 sets out our strategic progress over the past year, highlighting key achievements across skills, data and AI, vulnerable customers, and our growth and competitiveness agenda. Explore our milestones, goals and targets, board and governance structure, and more.

Scotland’s financial services sector has launched its second Changing Customer Needs report spotlighting the sector’s ongoing commitment to improving customer outcomes against a backdrop of changes to the economic, regulatory and industry landscape. The report highlights the financial services sector’s response to evolving customer requirements across Scotland, and examples of collaboration and innovation that are already making a difference to customer outcomes.