At the heart of New Financial is a managed programme of private dinners, briefings and workshops. We provide a private forum for senior individuals with different perspectives from across the industry – investors, issuers, banks, and government – to work together to address common challenges.
CMU has been one of the flagship initiatives of the EU over the past five years, but after an initial burst of activity and ambition, the project has lost momentum and a sense of direction. This event is part of a series of workshops that we will be hosting over the summer on the theme […]
This dinner that we are hosting with Huw van Steenis will focus on the forthcoming report on ‘The future of finance’ that Huw is working on for Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. Huw was appointed last year as a special adviser to Governor Carney and as part of that role he is leading a […]
We are excited to be hosting Sam Friedman, an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics, to talk about his latest research and new book demonstrating the existence of a powerful class pay gap, as well as exploring the complex barriers to career progression for those from less privileged backgrounds. https://www.classceiling.org/
Rolling out unconscious bias training is a top three (if not the top) action point according to our research on the Women in Finance Charter and Gender Pay Gap reporting. But how effective are unconscious bias training programmes? Recent reports from Harvard Business Review and Government Equalities Office reports questioning their impact. This breakfast is […]
This private breakfast with Juan Solé, senior London representative in the IMF’s markets division, will focus on European financial stability in light of the latest IMF global financial stability report due to be published in a few weeks. Juan and his team ran the analysis and wrote the European section of the report, and this […]
Pay is the ultimate incentive for financial services. How are companies bringing diversity and culture criteria into how staff get paid? We know that the linking gender diversity targets to pay is the most controversial of the four principles of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, so how are the mechanisms for incorporating these […]
This private dinner with Elizabeth Corley, Senior Advisor at Allianz Global Investors, will focus on discussing the work of the implementation taskforce on growing a culture of social impact investing in the UK. The taskforce was commissioned by the Prime Minister in March last year to drive forward the recommendations that an advisory group led […]
Diversity is increasingly mentioned as a means to reduce or mitigate risk – risks such as access to potential talent; incremental competitive advantages in winning new business; minimising legal, cultural, behavioural and reputational risk; and applying cognitive diversity to improve financial performance and minimise financial risk. But what does that mean in practice? This breakfast […]