The History of Clydesdale Bank
Changing for the better since 1838
Clydesdale Bank opened for business at a time of economic crisis, due to widespread industrial and social change.
Our founders were amongst those who helped raise Glasgow to its status as the second city of the Empire. They recognised that if money was to be a force for good in these changing times, a different approach to banking was needed.
They helped to make positive changes in the communities they served. From doing small things differently, to investing in big projects, we’re proud of what our bank has helped people to achieve.
Take a look at our timeline to see how this way of thinking has made a difference throughout our history.
Corporate responsibility
Creating value and sustainability
We recognise the significant value that our non-financial performance can contribute to creating long-term value and a sustainable business. We believe that managing our business in a responsible manner is the right thing to do by all our stakeholders and makes good business sense. Being a responsible business enhances and protects our reputation, helps us to attract and retain high quality employees, manage risk, identify new opportunities in emerging markets and build deeper and stronger stakeholder relations. A diagram illustrating our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) can be seen here (pdf, opens in new window). Our approach focuses on:
Getting the fundamentals right with our customers – by delivering fair value and quality advice;
Being a good employer – through investing in the skills and capabilities of our employees;
And addressing our broader responsibility to society – by supporting communities, managing our environmental impact and having a positive impact through our supply chain.
The key elements of our CR strategy are to improve business performance, build an open and honest culture and engage actively with stakeholders. We aim to achieve this by focusing on six key areas:
- governance and accountability;
- creating a great place to work;
- working with our supply chain;
- managing our environmental impacts – both direct and indirect;
- caring for our customers and providing them with products and services to meet their evolving needs and expectations;
- investing in the local communities in which we operate.
Our CR strategy builds on the solid foundation provided by our enterprise behaviours, code of conduct and compliance standards.
To deliver on our strategy we need to understand the direct and indirect impacts, both positive and negative, that are created by our operations, products and services. We also need to be able to identify business opportunities to meet the needs of our employees, customers and other stakeholders in the future.
With this in mind we are working to integrate environmental and social considerations into day-to-day business decision-making and operational practices. This will help build a customer-focused and ethical business where we openly engage in meaningful dialogue with our stakeholders and lead to better decisions and improved business performance.
We believe this will add value to our business by reducing risk, improving our operational efficiency, productivity, products and customer service, as well as creating a great place to work.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Making Your Business Better
Our service is all about one simple core principle: making it easier for you to get your money.
Of course, behind that simple statement there’s a lot of complex detail that requires a lot of expertise to deliver, but we don’t believe that this should be something that takes up your time. So as far as possible we’ll keep the complicated parts to ourselves and let you get on with running a profitable business. We’re fast approaching a cashless society, so accepting payments electronically is no longer simply an option; it’s an imperative. So why should we complicate matters?
Your business is unique. The payment solution that’s right for your competitors might not be right for you. We also understand that the range of payment services you’ll see here could be somewhat overwhelming. Don’t let this worry you; the information on this website is intended as background. We’re not trying to make you the expert, that’s our job.
So browse through our products and services and when it’s time to work out exactly the mix that’s best for you.
We partner with our clients to help them achieve consistent, long-term performance while delivering commercial opportunities in both developing and developed markets.
Our sector-focused client service teams include:
- Corporate Sector Group
- Financial Institutions Group
- Resources and Energy Group
Our products and services include:
- Advisory
- Financing
- Prime Services
- Research and analysis
- Securities services
- Trading and sales
- Transaction banking.
INVESTMENT BANKING
Payment division is organized into a number of regional, industry and product groups. Industries covered include:
- Communications
- Consumer
- Financial Institutions
- Financial Sponsors
- Healthcare
- Industrial
- Media
- Natural Resources
- Power
- Real Estate
- Retail
Our product expertise encompasses:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Restructuring
- Debt and Equity Capital Markets
- Loans
- Leveraged Finance
- Risk Solution.
