Sturgeon Ventures are excited to announce that Seonaid Mackenzie has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Ambassador of the Year category at the Women in Finance Awards 2018.
Gender & Diversity
Sturgeon Ventures Calls For More Agile Working To Tackle Gender Pay Gaps
Please see below a response by Seonaid Mackenzie, Founding Partner at Sturgeon Ventures, to the Gender Pay Gap Data being issued by companies with over 250 employees. Sturgeon Ventures is a pioneer of regulatory incubation in the UK’s financial services industry.
Women in Compliance Awards 2018 – Nomination
Seonaid Mackenzie has been shortlisted in the Women in Compliance Awards 2018 within the “The Mentor Award of the Year for Advancement of Women in Compliance” category.
The award ceremony takes place on 22nd March 2018 and celebrates the achievements of female compliance professionals in the changing and dynamic Financial Services Industry, across multi-national companies and in all sectors that have Compliance Departments.
Women In Finance Charter – One Year On
Almost half of UK financial services staff now covered by ground breaking Women in Finance Charter.
Sturgeon Ventures are proud to have signed up to this initiative since July 2016.
Another 33 firms have signed up to the government’s ground-breaking Women in Finance Charter, with 33,000 extra staff in the UK now covered by the plan to tackle gender inequality in financial services.
Women In Finance Awards – Sturgeon Shortlisted
Sturgeon Ventures has been short listed as Specialist Investor of the Year at the 2017 Women in Finance Awards.
The inaugural Women in Finance Awards aims to be the finance industry’s largest diversity initiative, recognising the high-achievers, advocates and role models for women in the sector.
Women in Compliance Awards 2017 – Two Nominations for Sturgeon Ventures
Sturgeon Ventures has been shortlisted for two awards at the Women in Compliance Awards 2017. The categories are:
Compliance Officer of the Year, EMEA – Seonaid Mackenzie
Compliance Consulting Team of the Year – Sturgeon Ventures
HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter – latest report by New Financial
Gender balance in UK financial services has leapt up the agenda since the launch of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter in March 2016. We worked with HMT to analyse all 71 submissions across the Charter principles. This report establishes a starting point for levels of women in senior management today, the targets signatories are aiming for, and how they are using the Charter principles to achieve those targets.
13 Financial Firms Pledge to Put Women in 50% of Top U.K. Roles
Sturgeon Ventures mentioned in Laura Cohen’s Fortune Website article for it’s commitment to the Women in Finance Charter and flexible working for women.
They want to reach that goal by 2021.
The U.K. government wants to increase gender diversity in the upper ranks of the financial industry, and on Tuesday it announced that some big-name players in the field have signed on to specific pillars of that effort, including 13 firms that have pledged gender parity.
Compulsory flexi-time is a must to attract women into finance
A finance firm has urged the financial services sector to introduce compulsory flexible working hours to attract and retain more women.
Sturgeon Ventures said mandatory flexi-time would help working mums and “open the floodgates” to more women working in financial services, as the FCA today published targets for the Government’s Women in Finance Charter.
Sturgeon Announces Its Four Pledges To Treasury’s Women In Finance Charter
Flexible working and tax breaks for start-ups needed to open floodgates formore women in financial services, Sturgeon Ventures says
• Sturgeon announces its four pledges to Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter
