Glasgow's wealth of financial services talent has been recognised by new IFSD awards.
The new awards programme was established by the IFSD Partnership
to recognise the wealth of talent graduating from Glasgow's
four universities, prepared for careers in financial
services.
Kerrie McKnight, 22, from Falkirk achieved a first in her BA
(Hons) Finance degree from the University of Strathclyde and is
looking forward to starting with PricewaterhouseCoopers in
August.
Yu-Hao Chen, 30, took a year out from his job at Deloitte &
Touche in Taiwan to achieve a grade A Masters in International
Accounting and International Financial Accounting at the University
of Glasgow.
Gavin Park, 23, from Ayr achieved a first class BA (Hons) Finance,
Investment and Risk degree from Glasgow Caledonian
University.
And, Afsheen Khalid, 26, from the south side of Glasgow achieved a
grade A in MSc International Financial Management from the
University of the West of Scotland.
All four students were nominated by their individual universities
as 'outstanding achievers' from courses designed for careers in
financial services.
Jim Watson, director of financial services, Scottish Enterprise
who presented the awards to the students on behalf of Glasgow's
IFSD said, "These awards recognise the great work being done by the
universities in Glasgow and the relationships they have with the
financial services sector to ensure a steady pipeline of well
qualified graduates to work in the industry. And, the awards also
recognise the breadth and depth of talent graduating from these
universities which is, we believe, very reassuring for existing
financial services companies in the city and prospective inward
investors."
Since its launch in 2001, the IFSD has been developed by a
partnership of the public and private sectors led by Scottish
Enterprise and Glasgow City Council. Over
£1 billion has so far been invested to transform the previously
run down area of the city centre. The District has attracted
over 15,000 financial sector jobs from some of the biggest names in
global finance including Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Barclays
Wealth, BNP Paribas, HSBC, esure, Direct Line, Tesco Bank and
Odyssey Financial Technologies.
Sources: ISFD