Company profile : Clydesdale Bank PLC

Clydesdale Bank was established in 1838 in Glasgow and has a proud history of innovation and support for both business and the local communities in which it serves. With over 150 retail branches nationwide and a network of 74 Financial Solutions Centres, Clydesdale has a strong presence in the south of England with its innovative Financial Solutions Centres, offering customers a highly integrated business and private banking service.

Clydesdale Bank’s success is the result of delivering true relationship banking to SMEs and private customers. Whilst other bank’s have ceded much of their decision making to centralised offices, Clydesdale Bank have bucked this trend, with each Financial Solution Centre run by a local managing partner, with a local team, making local decisions.

Each FSC has considerable decision-making autonomy and infrastructure devolved to teams on the ground. This has enabled us to create a locally focused entrepreneurial culture, akin to that of our clients.

By devolving more decision making responsibility to the teams on the ground, we can react more quickly and allow our local teams to make the right decisions for the customers they know better than anyone.

This combination of entrepreneurial management, trained and motivated staff, relationship banking and a frontline credit model means that Clydesdale Bank are better placed than most to structure solutions that clients really need and appreciate.