Huntswood to sponsor Scottish Financial Enterprise Innovator awards

Huntswood is committed to the financial services industry within Scotland. In November 2004 it opened an office in Strathclyde Business Park that has been hugely successful in the creation of 250 new jobs to date. It is expected that new jobs will continue to be created to the end of the year and throughout 2006.

David Brownlow, Chief Executive of Huntswood, and Ernst & Young’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2004/05, commented, “Huntswood is delighted to be sponsoring the Scottish Financial Enterprise Innovator awards. We are very excited about the huge amount of talent in the financial services industry within Scotland and these awards are an excellent way of rewarding the industry. Huntswood is itself committed to entrepreneurial growth with the expansion of the business into Scotland and the continual growth of the business.”

The Innovator awards aim to highlight groundbreaking innovations being developed within Scotland’s international financial services industry which helps to raise the country’s profile as a centre of financial services excellence. Awards are to be given for six industry categories: asset servicing; banks and building societies; corporate finance and broking services; general insurance, life assurance and pensions; investment management; and support services to the industry.