Businesses and partners from across Fife’s Financial & Business Services sector attended a roundtable earlier today, hosted by Ingenico at their Dalgety Bay site. The session provided an opportunity to discuss current challenges, explore emerging opportunities and identify practical ways to support the sector’s continued development.
Financial & Business Services remains a major contributor to Fife’s economy, with over 1,000 businesses and more than 7,000 employees across payments, fintech, software, telecoms and professional services. Today’s discussion reinforced the breadth and strength of activity within the sector.
Representatives from FinTech Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Business Gateway Fife, Fife Chamber and Fife College took part, alongside a range of local businesses. Their contributions helped shape a constructive conversation on the priorities and needs of the sector.
Key topics discussed included:
- Supporting the growth of established businesses
Ensuring companies already operating in Fife have access to the skills, investment and infrastructure required to expand.
- Developing the fintech and business services pipeline
Exploring opportunities to attract new activity and encourage further innovation.
- Improving connections between businesses and partners
Strengthening links across industry, education and support organisations.
- Focusing on practical actions that deliver clear benefits
Identifying steps that can improve productivity, competitiveness and long‑term resilience.
The discussion highlighted strong confidence in the future of Financial & Business Services in Fife and confirmed the sector’s important and growing role in driving productivity, innovation and wider economic growth.
Pamela Stevenson, Service Manager for Fife Council’s Economic Development team, said:
“These roundtables allow businesses to speak openly about the support they need and the issues they are dealing with. This helps us focus on practical measures that will have a meaningful impact on Fife’s economy.”
Thank you to all attendees for their valuable contribution. Work will continue following today’s session to build on the progress made.
