Hampden & Co lures Prentice back full time

Hampden & Co, the UK’s newest private bank, has persuaded Mark Prentice to return to full time employment, having previously left his senior role in Lloyd’s Bank’s Corporate Banking function in Scotland to work freelance.

Mr Prentice will lead Hampden & Co’s banking team in Scotland, and is the latest in a string of high profile hires that the bank has made.

He started his career at Bank of Scotland and has worked in a variety of banks including TSB, ABN Amro and the Clydesdale bank, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute.

Graeme Hartop, chief executive of Hampden & Co, said: “We are very fortunate to have a banker of Mark’s calibre joining the team. Having worked in very senior roles in organisations that are pivotal to the Scottish economy, he will help us continue to increase our growing reputation within the community”

Mr Prentice added: “What the team at Hampden and Co have built is something quite new and different from incumbent banks, with a complete focus on the quality of relationship management. Heading up the team in Edinburgh is an exciting challenge and it is truly refreshing to get involved in a successful start-up bank that is already going strongly.”

Hampden&Co is an independent bank that opened in June 2015 to offer private banking facilities to High Net Worth clients, and their families.

The bank, which is headquartered in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, is chaired by Ray Entwistle, the former CEO and Chairman of Adam&Co.

The bank has offices in London and Edinburgh.