3 November, 2017

Board Agenda: Work to be done on ethnic diversity of banking and finance

There has been a slight improvement in the proportion of banking and finance board members with a non-white ethnic background, from 8.1% in 2014 to 8.8%. Yet despite this, boards of banking and finance companies in the FTSE 100 are still not representative of the UK population, which is 87% white and 13% non-white.

The Green Park Leadership 10,000 report analyses the backgrounds of those holding the top 20 leadership roles within FTSE100 companies including CEOs, CFOs and Chairmen. It also analyses the next 100 senior roles to identify the future management pipeline. It reveals that despite a net average increase in diversity over last year’s report, there remains a glass ceiling stopping talented minority candidates reaching the upper echelons of management and worryingly, previous progress and momentum in some sectors are starting to reverse.

Green Park’s analysis also looked at the firms that were out performing the rest of the FTSE100 in terms of diversity. Three in 10 of the top performing FTSE 100 companies in Green Park’s rankings for gender and ethnic diversity are from the banking and finance sector: Standard Chartered plc, Old Mutual Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc.

 

This article was published in Board Agenda on Friday 3rd November 2017. For the full Board Agenda article, click here. 

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