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‘Where you come from shouldn’t dictate where you finish’: How Standard Chartered is taking on the banking industry’s class problem

Oct 09, 2026

‘Where you come from shouldn’t dictate where you finish’: How Standard Chartered is taking on the banking industry’s class problem

Standard Chartered CFO Darren Ellis on tackling the banking industry’s class problem, citing Progress Together research and the bank’s work with us.

Graduates shake up the status quo in financial services
Oct 09, 2026
LSE Business Review – Can teaching social skills improve social mobility?
Aug 04, 2026
Financial Reporter – Leadership scheme launches to tackle socioeconomic inequality in financial services
Jun 11, 2026
Modern Lender – Financial services risks losing future leaders as progression gap approaches two years, new research shows
Jun 11, 2026
City A.M. – If performance matters more than privilege then prove it
Jun 02, 2026
Financial Planning Today – Campaign to tackle class bias in financial services
May 29, 2026
Europe Says – Senior City leaders warn Britain risks wasting talent
May 27, 2026
Financial Promoter – New drive targets hidden class-based barriers to career progression
May 22, 2026
Insurance Times – Social mobility membership firm launches new campaign encouraging greater diversity in career progression pipelines
May 22, 2026
Sunday Times – Why are there still so few female CEOs? (Mar 2025)
Apr 21, 2026
HR Director (Oct 2025) Socio-economic background still strongest predictor of who reaches senior leadership in fs (Featured)
Apr 21, 2026
FT – UK regulators urged to make City firms report data on ‘class ceiling' (Dec 2024)
Apr 21, 2026
New Statesman – Making the case for social mobility (Oct 2025)
Apr 21, 2026
City AM – Want a better workforce? Help shape it then (Aug 2025)
Apr 21, 2026
Insurance Times – “Zurich ‘first insurer’ to publish social mobility data” (Feb 2025)
Apr 21, 2026
Financial News London – Why the City has to get a grip on class discrimination (June 2025)
Apr 21, 2026
Solicitors Journal – Global firms struggle with talent progression
Apr 21, 2026
Trending Now HR – Firms face lack of consistency in global social mobility
Apr 20, 2026
Institute of Chartered Accountants - How to fill talent gaps through social mobility
Dec 10, 2025
Financial News - Blackstone VP and Progress Together CEO to address female leaders at FN event
Nov 04, 2025
HR Review - Finance workers from poorer background 'wait two years longer for senior promotions
Oct 27, 2025
City AM - Performance, not privilege, should determine success in financial services
Oct 22, 2025
HR & Benefits - Financial services staff from lower-income backgrounds face longer climb to top roles
Oct 16, 2025
Financial News - Finance leaders gather at Bank of England to break City’s ‘entrenched privilege’
Sep 29, 2025
Reward Strategy - Triple disadvantage confirmed
May 13, 2025
FT – Class is the missing link (May 2025)
May 09, 2025
The Intermediary - How apprenticeships are shaping the future of financial services
Mar 03, 2025