Latest Human resources News: Finextra Research

Why a cookie-cutter approach to VC and funding hinders diversity

During the ‘Women in FinTech: Reshaping the Industry’ session at Citi’s Digital Money Symposium 2021, the panel tackled thorny issues surrounding securing funding to startups founded by females and those from minority backgrounds.

09 March 2021

News/retail

Danske Bank minds its language in recruitment process

Danske Bank has seen an 81% uplift in female job applicants after applying software that scans recruitment adverts for gender bias.

09 March 2021

News/inclusion

IWD 2021: No more talking, it's time for action on female representation in fintech

2020 may have been a year of challenge, but it proved that above all else, digital resilience will remain foundational, not only to female financial inclusion, but to female representation across the fintech sector.

08 March 2021

News/retail

Societe Generale gives all employees the right to work from home for up to two days a week

Societe Generale has reached an agreement with labour unions that introduces the right for all of its 40,000 employees in France to telework an average of two days a week.

08 February 2021

News/retail

Revolut to move to permanent remote working model

Revolut is to move the majority of its 2000-strong employees to a permanent remote working model and has begun the conversion of 70% its office real estate into 'Rev Labs', collaborative spaces for teamwork and in-person knowledge exchange.

04 February 2021

News/people

Oxford University professor: ‘There is a real threat that fintech will set gender diversity back’

One of Sibos’ first panel sessions for 2021, ‘Make 2021 the year to improve your bank’s diversity’, saw panellists raise concern over the lack of diverse representation in financial services, particularly fintech.

12 January 2021

News/people

Fintech and payments salaries declined by only 1% in 2020

Salaries in the fintech and payments industry held up well despite turbulent conditions last year, seeing a decrease of only 1%, according to research by recruitment consultancy Headcount.

11 January 2021

News/payments

Stripe plots Asian expansion

Payments firm Stripe is reportedly planning to increase its presence in the Asian market after adding 200 people to its workforce in the region.

10 December 2020

News/people

TransferWise to make 750 hires

Online money transfer firm TransferWise plans to add 750 jobs over the next six months, equivalent to more than a third of its current workforce.

09 December 2020

News/devops

How one bank’s tech team is teaching ‘on-the-fly’ data

Following her virtual session, ‘Democratising data-driven decisions with self-service tools’ at the Apidays conference, Yojas Samarth, senior data engineer, tech speaker and tech trainer at DBS Bank, speaks to Finextra Research regarding the nuance of training teams to effectively utilise data platforms.

10 November 2020

News/people

Opening up the path less travelled from banking to fintech

Fintech has been part of financial services for several years, but it remains surprisingly rare to see employees of incumbent banks take prominent positions at fintech firms.

09 November 2020

News/security

Sibos 2020: Women, internal hiring and escape rooms may solve the cyber resource problem

In a fast paced and solution-oriented presentation, Lucy Kerner, senior principal global cybersecurity evangelist and strategist, Red Hat, outlined a clear set of goals financial institutions can and should work toward in order to address cyber security weaknesses for ‘The cyber resource problem – is it totally unsolvable?’ on day 2 of Sibos 2020.

06 October 2020

News/covid-19

Sibos 2020: World should have been prepared for the pandemic - Jamie Dimon

The world was not prepared for a global pandemic like Covid-19 but it should have been, according to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan.

05 October 2020

News/people

N26 names Dropbox's Gormley COO

Berlin-based mobile bank N26 has appointed Dropbox executive Adrienne Gormley chief operating officer and ex-Adidas human resources SVP Diana Styles chief people officer.

28 September 2020

News/people

Insurance giant Marsh appoints chief digital and data officer

Global insurance broker Marsh has aappointed Tamara Simpkins Franklin as chief digital, data, and analytics officer.

24 September 2020

News/crime

Finance employees deemed least trustworthy

Employees working in the financial services sector are 30% less trustworthy than colleagues in other sectors.

23 September 2020

News/people

ANZ transformation head to leave bank

The executive charged with managing ANZ's digital transformation project is to leave the bank in October while the specialist 'agile' teams will be folded into the bank's general technology unit.

18 September 2020

News/wholesale

Credit Suisse unveils operational restructuring

Swiss bank Credit Suisse has announced a "series of structural improvements" which will see it combine several divisions in search of operational efficiencies.

30 July 2020

News/people

StanChar set to resume job cuts

UK bank Standard Chartered (StanChar) is reportedly set to commence a new round of job cuts after posting a 33% drop in profits for the first half of the year

30 July 2020

News/people

UK fintech Curve hires ex-PayPal exec as first CFO

PayPal's former finance director has been hired by UK-based card and mobile app provider Curve to act as its first chief financial officer (CFO).

28 July 2020