HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter – latest report by New Financial

HM Treasury Women in Finance

Gender balance in UK financial services has leapt up the agenda since the launch of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter in March 2016. We worked with HMT to analyse all 71 submissions across the Charter principles. This report establishes a starting point for levels of women in senior management today, the targets signatories […]

13 Financial Firms Pledge to Put Women in 50% of Top U.K. Roles

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Sturgeon Ventures mentioned in Laura Cohen’s Fortune Website article for it’s commitment to the Women in Finance Charter and flexible working for women. They want to reach that goal by 2021. The U.K. government wants to increase gender diversity in the upper ranks of the financial industry, and on Tuesday it announced that some big-name […]

Compulsory flexi-time is a must to attract women into finance

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A finance firm has urged the financial services sector to introduce compulsory flexible working hours to attract and retain more women. Sturgeon Ventures said mandatory flexi-time would help working mums and “open the floodgates” to more women working in financial services, as the FCA today published targets for the Government’s Women in Finance Charter.

Major Financial Services Firms Step Up Efforts to Tackle Gender Gap

HM Treasury Women in Finance

EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER Major financial services firms step up efforts to tackle gender gap. Major banks including HSBC UK, Santander, RBS and Lloyds have published ground-breaking gender strategies, committing them to ambitious targets for the number of women they employ in senior roles.

The Gender Dividend

Article from Deliotte discussing the case for investing in women. The business case for investing in women Women may well be the dominant source of economic growth in the near future—and organizations that are able to capitalize on the roles women play as economic actors will most likely have a competitive advantage as the world […]

The Trust Issue

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‘Trust is important in the good times but also in the bad because life goes in peaks and troughs and there’s going to be a point when you’re going to require that trust, and if you’ve lost it before, how do you go about demonstrating that actually you are not going to repeat history?’ John […]

ESMA Advice on Extending the AIFMD Passport to Non-EU Countries

ESMA Advice on Extending the AIFMD Passport to Non-EU Countries

ESMA sees no significant obstacles to extending the AIFMD passport to nine key countries. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published advice to the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council in relation to the application of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) passport to non-EU alternative investment fund managers […]