FSCS signs Women in Finance Charter

More than 270 firms signed up

Victoria McKeever
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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has signed up to the Women in Finance Charter - the Treasury initiative designed to improve equality within the financial sector.

The lifeboat fund has signed the charter, which launched in 2016, because it believed gender diversity was crucial to the success of its business. FSCS chief financial officer Kathryn Sherratt is responsible for gender diversity within the organisation. By signing the charter the FSCS has agreed to: ensure it has a 50/50 gender split in shortlisted candidates for all role, increase female representation in its IT and Data teams to 20% by 2022, and increase the proportion of women in management to 50% by the same year. The compensation scheme said it recognised that only through the co...

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