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All talk? City drags its heels on Women in Finance Charter

Dozens of firms do not appear to have complied with the Charter's requirements to post easily accessible updates

All talk? City drags its heels on Women in Finance Charter
Photo: Lilly Panholzer

"An admin error", "We haven't done it yet" and "We don't need to provide a running commentary". These are some of the explanations firms gave Financial News when questioned why it was not possible to find an annual update on their progress toward their Women in Finance Charter targets.

When the Charter was set up in 2016, one of its major aims was to provide transparency around what City firms were doing to boost the number of women in their senior ranks by 2020.

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