BSA Master Brochure 2023 v8 SPREADS - Flipbook - Page 11
11
Our work with Women in Banking and Finance
We are proud to have worked in partnership with the not-for-profit,
Women in Banking & Finance (WIBF).
WIBF has been championing women in financial services for 40
years and it has been our honour to help them achieve their goals
of increasing the number of female professionals in the financial
services sector. Recently, we worked with them on a great project:
Name of programme: Accelerating Change Together (“ACT”)
Participating entities: WIBF & the London School of Economics (LSE)
Goal: The programme was the UK’s first cross-sector research
programme designed to highlight the UK financial services
industry’s pressing gender inclusion challenges. The aim was to
provide actionable recommendations to better retain and promote
women in the financial services workforce.
Challenge: WIBF and LSE needed support recruiting senior-grade
professionals from across our specialist markets to be interviewed
for the programme.
Outcome of Barclay Simpson’s involvement: Our specialist
consultant teams delivered 26 senior governance and cyber
professionals who contributed to the success of the final report.
You can read the full report here, as well as coverage in the FT.
Ongoing support for WIBF and LSE
We are working with the WIBF and LSE to support them in
recruiting professionals from our network to be interviewed by
LSE for further research on a report examining the link between
diversity and productivity. Watch this space for more
information about the outcome.
