Leeds - First Choice for financial & business services

Welcome to the website of the Leeds Financial Services Initiative, a partnership organisation dedicated to supporting businesses working in the financial and professional services sector in Leeds and to assisting those looking for services or seeking to establish a presence in the UK's fastest growing city.

Leeds is the largest UK centre outside London for financial and business services with 119,000 employees in the sector, ahead of Birmingham, Glagow, Edinburgh and Manchester. (Annual Business Inquiry)

Leeds is recognised as the UK's leading financial services centre outside of London and a top 30 European business location*
(* Cushman & Wakefield Survey 2006).

"Britain’s financial services sector, led by the international financial markets of London and other important financial clusters such as Leeds…”
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget, March 2006.

"Leeds is England's number one centre for financial services outside London.”
Lord Mayor of the City of London. December 2005.