PFS signals 'global ambition' and teases new leadership role

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has signalled intent to “explore international relevance” and teased the creation of a leadership role “to represent the PFS externally”.

Jen Frost
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In a board update shared last Friday (8 August), PFS chair and president Carla Brown laid out seven areas “for which we want the PFS to be recognised in future, as identified at a recent strategy day.

"Global ambition, with an intent to explore international relevance," was listed among these. Further, Brown set out that the PFS hopes "to be able to say more" about the creation of a new role to externally represent the body, with an update expected at its AGM in September. The pledge comes as the PFS has been without a CEO since interim CEO Don MacIntyre stepped down last November, days before the body's AGM.  "The strategy day itself was an opportunity for open, collaborative and genuinely exciting discussion about the future direction of the PFS. We began by exploring our purp...

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