The FCA's Megan Butler has urged financial services firms to continue to work against unconscious biases when recruiting and promoting their staff and has urged them not to let the problem "trickle back down".
Speaking at a Treasury Select Committee meeting today (12 June) on women in finance, the executive director of supervision - investment, wholesale and specialist (pictured) said the financial services sector needed to have a "broader conversation about inclusivity" when it comes to unconscious biases. Butler told the committee that unconscious bias in the workplace must be continuously worked upon, adding: "You cannot just do it once. Never think this is done - there is no one solution." She also spoke about the issues firms face with unconscious bias in recruitment and promotion, hi...
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