I’ve spent 30 years in the brokerage business; big fan of Sarah Butcher’s column. I’ve got three daughters. Change is overdue. I don’t think the younger generation is going to tolerate the double standards women face in this business, and frankly they shouldn’t have to. Those standards limit good people and hurt the industry as a whole.
Tom M.
80% Done. Just Missing the Lines of Defense Structure. Citi’s Consent Order began in 2020. By the bank’s own account, remediation is near complete. A Data Risk function in the second line of defense — the independent oversight layer whose entire purpose is to challenge and govern data risk taken by the business — did…
what Wall Street calls ‘collusion’ when women do it is simply called golf when men do.
Story 59 is familiar. Male MD in Citi’s London wealth office who left in 2024. I spent a ton of time and effort in 2021/2022 hiring women off the back of Fraser’s very public DEI push, only to be told by new management in late 2023 to wipe them all out. Pretty brutal whiplash. I…
A co-worker told me a certain Managing Director “hated me because I came from the team” that she had just taken over. I had made the productive and professional choice to leave that team due to undermining, bullying, retaliation and incompetent management. When she attempted to block my transfer (which had already been agreed with…
I am a 45 year old saleswomen who works in a European bank in London & has in the business a long time and pretty thick skinned. At my Christmas party last year I was talking to my American boss who was visiting from NY about our teenage children and how much more open they…
Re: Story #265 All I see is a desperate attempt to malign one of the best female CEOs in decades Seems like you have confused Jane for a social activist vs. business leader. She is answerable to shareholders and needs to enable decisions which are best for business which may some time not result in…