From top hats to Metro Bank: a history of British banking in pictures - Telegraph Bank accounts From top hats to Metro Bank: a history of British banking in pictures In 1958 Barclays appointed the first female bank manager Hilda Harding at the Hanover Street branch in London. It could be argued that the appearance of women in banks was the biggest banking revolution of the 20th century. Many women were recruited during the First World War, but most of them left afterwards. The pattern was repeated during the Second World War, but this time more of the women stayed. Today, the majority of bank staff are women. Women | Barclays Group Archives Stories Women Today, it is difficult to imagine the world of banking as a solely male environment, but just over a century ago that was exactly the case. The handful of females employed by Barclays in the early 20th century held what were considered at the time to be menial roles, and the position of branch manager was an aspiration that few women dared to even think about. In 1962, shortly after Anne Harwood became Barclays’ second female branch manager, she was interviewed.

She recalled that earlier in her career a male colleague had commented that the day a woman was appointed as branch manager, the Barclays Spread Eagle would flap its wings and fly away! In the intervening period, the eagle may have changed from black to blue, and softened a little around the edges, but it is still with us. Today, female employees account for 51% of the Barclays workforce. Of the eight members who sit on the Executive Committee, three are women. Quite a development considering that it was not until the outbreak of World War One in 1914 that women began working in the banks in significant numbers, albeit on a temporary basis, as the only option to replace the male clerks who had been called away for active service. Relatively few women occur in the history of Barclays before the 20th century. Caroline Gunner became a partner in Gunner and Company (part of the Barclays family), on the death of her husband Charles in 1872. In 1890, having been sole partner for twelve years, she took her two sons into partnership, and remained senior partner until her death in 1906.

Although Caroline was undoubtedly from a privileged background, her achievement in occupying such a significant position in what was definitely a man’s world is remarkable. There are also a few instances of women from a less privileged background breaking through. Miss Margaret Tyson was employed as an agent in Coniston from 1884 to 1887, as was Miss Mary Clark in 1884 in Bootle, Cumbria. Other female appointments include telephonists in 1908 and typists in 1913, although it is difficult to trace whether these were ‘firsts,’ as it is rare for the records to list temporary positions. World War One saw a breakthrough for women’s employment. A staff register for the London and South Western Bank shows that around 140 women were recruited during the war years at their head office. However, the employment of women during the war years cannot be seen as a permanent shift in attitudes, for as the Salaries Committee Report for 1917 records the female employees as ‘Temporary Staff.’ Accordingly, it was accepted practice for the men returning from the War to return to their positions within the bank, and for women to return to the home.

This is exemplified by a letter from a branch manager to the Local Head Office in 1919 which states, ‘I could manage with two good fellows capable of working ledgers and for the general routine work, a new junior clerk. All my four girls could then be released.’ However, a small number of women were retained, and by 1920, Barclays employed 38 permanent female staff. This can be seen as a drop in the ocean compared to the 6,802 men who were employed, but does represent a significant start. Moreover, the emergence of the ‘Lady Clerk,’ offered women recognition and new opportunities. In 1921, a 25% quota of female employees was put in place, and in 1926 the employment of women was formally recognised by the introduction of Conditions of Service. This was followed in 1928 by the production of guidelines for female staff within the Staff Handbook. At this time, it was not standard industry practice to retain women who married.

On marriage, women were expected to resign, a system known as the ‘Marriage Bar.’ In reality, many married women did return to work for the Bank, although as temporary staff in minor roles with no benefits or pensions. Indeed, it is notable that the early trail-blazers for women in banking were all unmarried. In 1961, Barclays abolished the marriage bar which meant that women could remain in post, with additional benefits such as maternity leave, albeit unpaid. Statistics reveal that this had some effect, as by 1962 the proportion of women employed by Barclays overtook men for the first time. Significantly, this was eight years prior to the Equal Pay Act before which pay was based on both age and gender. For example, in 1962, a 24 year old male’s yearly salary would have been £590. In contrast, a 24 year old female’s salary which would have been £550. By the age of 31, there would have been £275 difference between the two.

By 1979, Barclays was employing 38,000 women in the UK, and importantly, 266 were managers and 9 were branch managers. In 1983, with women making up 65% of the Barclays workforce, Mary Baker became the bank's first female director. In 1984, Tina Boyden was appointed as the first Equal Opportunities Manager, at a time when Barclays was largely female in staff numbers but predominantly male in management. In 1986, Barclays introduced the Career Break Scheme, and this was also the year that saw women hold proportionately more senior positions at Barclays than at any of the other four big UK banks. The 1990s saw a surge of initiatives which helped women progress, and in 1993 Barclays was awarded Employer of the Year by the Working Mothers’ Association for the Career Break and Job Share Schemes. In 2000, a survey of 10,000 employees identified key areas for action for women and minority groups in Barclays. The result was the Equality and Diversity Charter, launched by Group Chief Executive Matt Barrett in July 2001.

This set out in detail Barclays’ commitment to equality and diversity for employees, customers, shareholders and the community. In 2007 Barclays established the first Women’s Initiative Network and launched the ‘Women of the Year’ award for employees. In the same year, Barclays published ‘A Question of Gender,’ a report to examine the relationship between wealth and gender. Two years later, Barclays was listed as one of the Times ‘Top 50 Places Where Woman Want to Work’ for the fourth year running. Chairman Marcus Agius publicly committed in 2011 to ensure that 20% of the Board be made up of women by the end of 2013, the same year that Barclays won the ‘Opportunity Now Awards for Advancing Women in the Workplace.’ Gender remains a main focus of Barclays’ Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, with a clear target to have 26% of women in senior leadership by 2018. Chief Exceutive, Antony Jenkins has said that, this is about finding highly talented women across our organisation and training, developing and mentoring them to move them into Director and MD position.

Past and present influential and powerful women In 1954, Barclays DCO opened a unique agency in a tent in Episkopi in Cyprus to serve British Military Forces stationed there. Araxie Yaghlian was a manager in all but name, running the agency as clerk-in-charge with the help of A Sanidhiotis as messenger. Hilda Harding entered Barclays in 1934 as a shorthand typist, becoming secretary to the Local Head Office Directors at Reading in 1941. She was one of the first groups of women in 1947 to attend the Bank’s Training School at Wimbledon. In 1958, Hilda was appointed as the UK’s first female branch manager at a new branch in Hanover Street, London. Her appointment caused such a stir that headlines appeared all over the world. Rebecca Nunoofio was appointed as Barclays first female cashier in Ghana and took up her post at the High Street, Accra branch in 1959, having joined the staff as a machine operator just three years earlier.

In 1961, at the age of 19, Rosemary Mwangi Njoki became the first African woman to be employed by the Bank as a clerk since its formation in East Africa. She took up the post at the Government Road, Nairobi branch following completion of the Senior School Certificate at the African Girls High School at Kikuyu. Rosemary has said, I always wanted to be a nurse, but I knew I would be the first African girl to work at the Bank and the opportunity seemed too good to miss. Anne Harwood joined Barclays in 1935 as a shorthand typist before being appointed as Barclays’ second ever female bank manager in 1962. In 1969, she was subsequently posted to Head Office as Women Staff Manger, the highest position ever occupied by a woman in Barclays at that time. Ena Alice Evadne Leung-Walker can claim two firsts. In 1964 she was appointed accountant at the DCO branch in Georgetown, British Guiana, and the first woman to hold such a position in the Caribbean.

In 1968 she was appointed manager of the Main Street, Georgetown, Demerara branch, the first female manager in Barclays DCO. Joyce Bailey was appointed assistant manager in the City Trustee branch, DCO in 1967, the first woman to hold a position at that level in the Bank. In 1968, Joan Myburgh became the first woman to obtain a Board appointment in South Africa when she was appointed as Assistant Staff Manager at Head Office in Johannesburg. She was subsequently elected by the Rand Daily Mail as the Business Girl of the Year; her prize included a trip for two to Europe. D M Howard was the first woman to receive a managerial appointment in the Cape when she was made manager of the Business Development Division at Cape Town Local Head Office in 1971. The staff magazine at the time commented, as she has no children she can more easily concentrate on her job in the Bank. In 1976, Pamela Emney succeeded Anne Harwood as Women Staff Manager. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Pamela’s life differed in one major way: she was married with three children when she joined the Bank.

Her previous roles included shorthand typist and secretary before moving to Barclaycard. Mary Baker became the first female Director of Barclays Bank UK on 1 January 1983. At the time, 65% of Barclays colleagues were women and Mary worked hard to promote equal opportunities. In 1988, Mary became a Director of Barclays PLC, a role she held until her retirement in 2000. In 1984, Tina Boyden was appointed Barclays’ first Equal Opportunities Manager. She was also a founder member of Women in Banking, a support and contact group set up for women in the profession in 1980. Margaret Mwanakatwe shocked both the banking community and the nation in 2000 when she was appointed Managing Director of Barclays Bank, Zambia. She recalled how it was unusual for an African to hold such a position and unheard of for it to be a woman. In 2005, Deanna Oppenheimer was appointed Chief Executive of Barclays UK Retail Bank and went on in 2007 to be named one of the top 25 most powerful women in Banking by the US Banker Magazine.

By 2010, in addition to heading the UK retail bank, she was also Vice Chair of Global Retail Banking and Chief Executive of Barclays’ retail business in Western Europe. In 2009, Zarina Bassa became an Executive Director of ABSA, the first woman in South Africa to achieve such a high position. She had joined ABSA in 2002 as the Managing Executive of ABSA Retail Banking Services, and after the completion of the landmark deal that saw Barclays PLC acquiring a majority stake in ABSA in July 2005, Zarina was appointed as Executive Director responsible for Private Banking in the ABSA group. Maria Ramos took up her post as CEO of ABSA in 2009, and in the same year she was named the World’s ninth most influential business woman in Fortune Magazine’s Global Leaders list, and Outstanding Business Woman of the Year at the African Business Awards. Her success continued, and in 2011 Maria won the Africa Business Woman of the Year at the CNBC All Africa Business Leaders Awards. Val Soranno Keating was named as the new Barclaycard Chief Executive in 2009.

She was named amongst the five most powerful women in finance by American Banker magazine in 2011. Tags Power 100 Women | City A.M. Power 100 Women Bats UK 100 12177.80 -0.58% Celebrating the Square Mile's most inspiring women. Scroll with mouse Top Power 100 Women About Power 100 Women If one thing was made clear by “heels-gate” - the fiasco caused last week after a young receptionist was sent home from her first day of work because she refused to don a pair of stilettos - it was that despite our best efforts, in some pockets of the City, old-fashioned attitudes persist. But during our Power 100 breakfast event yesterday, there was a consensus among those on the panel. While we have, for the large part, dispensed with overt sexism, we’re left with unconscious bias. So the next challenge for leaders is dispensing with those subconscious decisions to hire and promote those with the same background.

The panel, which included RSM chief executive Jean Stephens, Tech City chief of staff Caroline Makepeace, A Very Good Company founder Natalie Campbell and Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia, agreed: the only way to beat dated views of women’s roles is to “be the best you”. Or, as Campbell put it: “do what you damn well please”. From bosses to millennials, from property to accountancy, we’ve put together the Power 100 to highlight the talkers, the thinkers, the women influencing policy and changing the way the City thinks. In other words, these are the women in the City who are beating that unconscious bias the best way they can: doing what they damn well please - and doing it well. Fundamentally, if you're good at your job, you can stand your ground Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Virgin Money Beth Brooke-Marciniak EY Global vice chair Brooke-Marciniak joined EY in 1981. She has since held leadership roles including US national director of tax advisory services. She also worked in the US Department of the Treasury during the Clinton administration.

Ingrid Waterfield KPMG Having trained as an auditor with PwC, Waterfield is currently leading KPMG’s contribution to the 30 per cent Club’s focus on women, producing research in conjunction with the organisation. Jean Stephens RSM After joining RSM in 1996, Stephens was named chief executive in 2006. In 2007 she established the RSM Academy, an international leadership programme aimed at developing the skills of RSM's future leaders. Maria Pinelli EY During over 25 years at EY, its global vice chair of strategic growth markets, who speaks English, French and Italian, has led more than 20 IPOs across three continents. In addition to her role at EY, she is vice chair of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurs. Michelle Quest KPMG KPMG’s UK head of tax, pensions and legal services, joined in 1997 and has been a tax partner for 12 years. She previously headed up the UK private equity and EMA M&A tax practices.

Sacha Romanovitch Grant Thornton UK With a masters in chemistry from Oxford, Romanovitch began her career in Grant Thornton in 1990. She became a partner in 2001 and was named the first female boss of a major City accountancy firm last year. At the time, she unveiled a John Lewis-style profit share scheme for her staff, which the company suggested would boost salaries by 25 per cent. Sharon Thorne Deloitte In addition to her role as global managing partner at Deloitte, Thorne is a non-executive director of the CBI. With PPE degree from Oxford, she joined a predecessor of Deloitte in 1986, and was made partner in 1998. Sharron Gunn ICAEW Gunn joined the ICAEW in 2001 as head of development and moved on to become executive director of its commercial team in 2012. Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 1989, she has previously worked for Sainsbury’s as group management accountant and financial analyst.

Stephanie Hyde PwC PwC’s head of regions joined in 1995 and became a partner in 2006. She joined PwC's executive board as its youngest ever member in 2011. She is also a member of the Institute of Directors' Good Governance Advisory Panel. Tracey Groves PwC Groves joined PwC as a trainee chartered accountant in 1991. In addition to her role as governance, risk and compliance leader, she is also chair of PwC’s gender balance network, which has been named among the world’s 10 best women employees networks. Alison Rose RBS After more than 20 years climbing the ranks at RBS, the chief executive of its commercial and private banking arm is the lender’s highest-ranking woman, leading a team of more than 16,000 people. Beatriz Martin UBS The chief operating officer of UBS’ investment bank moved to her role in October 2015, having previously held the same role for the UK arm of the bank.

She joined UBS in 2012 from Morgan Stanley, where she had run the lender’s solutions sales arm in Switzerland. Charlotte Crosswell Nasdaq NLX The chief executive of Nasdaq NLX has overseen Nasdaq’s London-based interest rate derivatives market since its inception in 2013. She is also board director at LCH.Clearnet, as well as City lobbying organisation TheCityUK. Francesca McDonagh HSBC UK HSBC’s head of retail banking and wealth management joined its graduate scheme in 1997. She has worked in the UK, Indonesia, Mexico, Panama, Hong Kong and Dubai. The Oxford University grad is also on the board of MasterCard. Helen Rose TSB Now chief operating officer, Rose joined Lloyds TSB in 2005, and was responsible for integrating the retail businesses of Lloyds TSB and HBOS, before overseeing the creation of a new challenger bank, TSB. She has held finance roles at Safeway and Dixons. Ilaria del Beato GE Capital UK With 25 years’ experience in commercial real estate, del Beato joined GE in 2003 in its UK real estate business.

After becoming managing director of that, she was promoted to chief executive of GE Capital UK in March 2013. Maria Ramos Barclays Africa Group The chief executive of Barclays’ African business - which it recently began the selloff of - joined in 2009, having previously been group chief executive of Transnet, a state-owned South African logistics firm. She has also served as director general of South Africa’s National Treasury, and is on the board of SAB Miller. Noreen Whyte Morgan Stanley The managing director of Morgan Stanley’s global capital markets group, Whyte has more than 20 years of business management and loans experience. Prior to joining in 2005, she spent 12 years at GE. Stephanie Smith Allianz Insurance In December Allianz announced that after 6 years at the company, it was promoting Smith to chief operating officer. She had stints at Rolls-Royce, Deloitte and British Airways before she moved to Allianz in 2009. Tina Fordham Citigroup Citigroup’s chief global political analyst was among the first dedicated political analysts on Wall Street.

After moving to London in 2004, she served as senior adviser to Tony Blair’s strategy unit. She is on the UN’s high-level panel on women’s economic empowerment. Alison Brittain Whitbread The former Lloyds retail boss was not the obvious choice to take over Whitbread in January this year. However, chairman Richard Baker described her approach as a “perfect fit”. She is also a non-executive director at Marks & Spencer. Alison Cooper Imperial Brands Cooper joined the world’s fourth largest tobacco company in 1999 and was appointed chief executive in 2010. She has turned Imperial’s strategy towards prioritising high-growth markets, and pursued new products, notably e-cigarettes, through the firm’s Fontem Ventures subsidiary. Amanda Blanc Axa Insurance Blanc was appointed chief executive of Axa Insurance’s commercial lines division in March 2011 and clearly impressed the bosses by January this year her remit was broadened to include the entirety of Axa’s insurance business in the UK & Ireland. Ana Botin Santander Harvard Business School-educated Botin has been executive chairman of Santander since she was appointed following the death of her father in 2014.

She spent eight years at JP Morgan before returning to help run the family business in 1989. She was awarded an honorary damehood last Christmas. Dame Carolyn McCall EasyJet The former Guardian boss joined EasyJet as chief executive in 2010. Since then, it has made record profits, paying its first dividend in 2012 - a year before it entered the FTSE 100. McCall was made a Dame in 2016. Inga Beale Lloyd’s of London Beale joined Lloyd’s in January 2014 after stints at Canopius and Zurich. Beale has focused her efforts on modernising the institution, embracing technology and pushing discussions about topics such as cyber-security and terrorism. Jayne-Anne Gadhia Virgin Money Once dubbed the “first lady of UK finance”, Gadhia has been the chief executive of Virgin Money since 2007, leading its £1.25bn flotation last year. Richard Branson appointed her to oversee his bid to buy Northern Rock in 2008 (although the company didn’t get its hands on the lender until 2012).

She was asked by the Treasury to head a review into the high rates of women leaving the financial industry. Liv Garfield Severn Trent Garfield is the former head of BT Openreach, where she spearheaded the rollout of its fibre network, before joining the Severn Trent in 2014. She has been named as one of the government’s business ambassadors, and until last year she was a non-executive director at Tesco. Moya Greene Royal Mail The former chief exec of Canada’s postal service is the first non-Briton to head Royal Mail, where she has been since 2010. Named the FT’s Person of the Year in 2014 for her transformation of the company, she led its controversial privatisation in 2013. Veronique Laury Kingfisher Laury was appointed as Kingfisher’s chief executive in 2014, after working at its French subsidiary Castorama from 2003. In January she launched a five-year overhaul of the company, aiming to increase profits by £500m by the end of the fifth year.

Bridget Rosewell Volterra Formerly chief economist at the GLA, Rosewell is senior adviser at Volterra, as well as being a non-exec director at Network Rail. Her latest book, Reinventing London, explores post-crisis London. She was awarded an OBE in 2013. Dame Kate Barker Office for Budget Responsibility A former member of the monetary policy committee and CBI chief economic adviser Barker has led two reviews into housing, leading to a CBE in 2006. She is senior adviser to Credit Suisse, as well as non-exec director at Taylor Wimpey and Yorkshire Building Society. Diane Coyle University of Manchester Twitter enthusiast Coyle is a fellow of the ONS and Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She has written several books, and has held roles at the Treasury and the BBC Trust. She was awarded the OBE in 2009. Elga Bartsch Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s chief European economist has been named one of the 100 most influential women in European finance. She is a member of Handelsblatt’s European Central Bank Shadow Bank, and a trustee of German economic think tank the Ifo Institute.

Kristin Forbes Bank of England With a much-coveted place on the monetary policy committee, Forbes holds the fate of City institutions in her hands. As well as being a professor of management at MIT, Forbes has been deputy assistant secretary in the US Treasury department. Minouche Shafik Bank of England Once the World Bank’s youngest-ever vice president, and with degrees from Oxford, LSE and Massachusetts-Amherst, Shafik was appointed as deputy governor of markets and banking at the Bank of England by Mark Carney in August 2014, making her arguably the City’s most powerful woman. Having chaired the BoE’s much-anticipated Fair and Effective Markets Review, Shafik has been outspoken on the importance of improving City culture. Rain Newton-Smith CBI Having tackled everything from Middle Eastern financial stability to global forecasting during stints at the IMF, Bank of England and Oxford Economics, the CBI’s director of economics is now attempting to persuade the UK’s electorate to vote “Remain” in June. Ruth Lea Arbuthnot Banking Group An outspoken Brexiteer, Arbuthnot’s economic adviser achieved notoriety in February when she resigned as chairman of eurosceptic Economists for Britain.

Lea has held roles at the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute of Directors and ITN. She was awarded a CBE in 2014. Vicky Pryce CEBR After nine weeks in jail in 2013, Pryce published her well-received book, Prisonomics. She has served as a senior managing director at FTI and as director general for economics at the Department for Business. Most importantly, she’s a member of City A.M.’s Shadow MPC. Yael Selfin KPMG Having held roles at PwC, Volterra and her own consultancy, Edymar, Selfin joined KPMG as head of macroeconomics in 2014, where she works with private clients, as well as providing advice to government departments. Amanda Staveley PCP Capital Partners In 2005 veteran dealmaker Staveley set up her investment vehicle, best known for its role in Barclays’ £7.3bn bailout in 2008. She represented Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, as he and a group of investors rescued the lender from a taxpayer bailout.

Image credit: Getty Baroness Martha Lane Fox Entrepreneur Lane Fox made her name with Lastminute.com, which she floated in 2000. Since then she has founded karaoke chain Lucky Voice and become chancellor of the Open University. In 2013 she joined the House of Lords - the youngest woman ever in the upper chamber. Image credit: Flickr/Open-University Elizabeth Varley TechHub Varley founded TechHub, the global tech startup community, in 2009. Based in Shoreditch, the firm has co-working spaces in six cities including Boston and Bangalore. She was a founding member of the DigitalEve women in technology organisation. Julie Meyer Ariadne Capital Meyer set up First Tuesday, the network for internet entrepreneurs, in 1998 and sold it for $50m (£35m) in 2000. She built Ariadne Capital to support technology start-ups, and in 2008 she created EntrepreneurCountry Global, a community for digital entrepreneurs. Kathryn Parsons Decoded Parsons co-founded Decoded in January 2011 to “demystify the digital dark arts”. The digital training school now has offices in New York, London and Sydney.

The Cambridge classics graduate was Greater London’s Tech City Ambassador in 2014. Nicola Horlick Money & Co Dubbed the City’s “superwoman”, Horlick has more than 30 years’ experience. As well as founding several investment businesses, she is a director of an NHS Foundation Trust and runs a film-development firm Derby Street Films. She now runs crowdfunder Money&Co. Rebecca Harding Equant-Analytics Harding co-founded Equant-Analytics, and has held roles including senior fellow at London Business School, head of corporate research at Deloitte and specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee. If that’s not enough, she has also published eight books. Sam Smith FinnCap After qualifying as a chartered accountant and spending three years at KPMG, Smith joined investment manager JM Finn in 1998, where she helped lead the buyout of its corporate finance division in 2007, the result of which was FinnCap. One of very few female chief executives of a City broker, Smith is also involved in various mentoring initiatives, including the Women of the Future awards.

Sarah Wood Unruly Wood co-founded her video ad technology company in 2006 - which was snapped up by Rupert Murdoch for £114m in 2015. When she isn’t ruling the internet, she lectures at Cambridge University. She was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year this year. Image credit: Getty Sherry Coutu Founders4Schools Coutu earned a CBE in 2013, having invested in more than 50 companies including Zoopla and Lovefilm. Her former company, Interactive Investor International, made the first ever e-commerce transaction and was the most over-subscribed IPO in history when she floated it in 2000. Agnes de Guzman Pictet Wealth Management De Guzman spent two years at Ariadne Capital before moving into wealth management, first at UBS and then, as senior private banker at Pictet Wealth Management. She has been involved in Tech Tour and global entrepreneur community Founders Forum. Ana Cukic Armstrong Armstrong Investment Managers Armstrong’s chief executive and founding member earned her PhD in economics at Imperial College before moving on to roles at UBS and Insight Investment.

She has been on Aberdeen Asset Management’s board since 2005. Anita Nemes Deutsche Bank The global head of Deutsche’s hedge fund capital group, Nemes earned an MBA at Insead, before joining Credit Suisse First Boston in 1997. She has been named the most influential woman in European hedge funds by Financial News in 2014. Caroline Simmons UBS Wealth Management Having started out at Scott Goodman Harris as an investment researcher, the deputy head of UBS Wealth Management’s investment office joined the company in 2004, and was promoted to her current role in 2013. Harriet Steel Hermes Investment Management With an architecture degree from Princeton, Hermes’ global head of business development didn’t start out on a traditional route - but after climbing the ranks of lenders including Morgan Stanley, she joined Hermes in 2011. Steel and her 50-strong team have built a business in which revenues from third parties have grown from 15 per cent to 52 per cent. Hermes has £24.1bn assets under management.

Helena Morrissey Newton Investment Management Anyone interested in boardroom diversity will know Newton’s chief executive from the 30 Per Cent Club, which she founded to increase the proportion of women in boardrooms. Morrissey is also chair of the Investment Association, and is on the government’s Financial Services Trade and Investment Board. And that’s just when she’s at work. She is equally notable for her vast brood: there were nine mini-Morrisseys at last count. Jennifer Mathias EFG Private Bank EFG’s deputy chief exec and chief financial officer started out as a graduate trainee at Lloyds, before working her way up to finance director of its corporate bank, helping to integrate HBOS. In 2012, she moved to Coutts, before heading to EFG at the end of last year. Liz Field Wealth Management Association In one of her first acts as the WMA’s chief executive, Field launched a strategic review. After 16 years as the chief executive of trade associations, Field should know the drill: she’s led bodies including the Financial and Legal Skills Partnership.

Lucy Macdonald Allianz Global Investors The chief investment officer of Allianz’s global equities team has spent 30-odd years in the industry, joining Allianz in 2001. She is also a non-executive director of Apollo Media and Ibis Media Venture Capital Trust. Nancy Curtin Close Brothers Asset Management With over 20 years’ experience, Close Brothers’ chief investment officer is one of the most senior women in the UK’s asset management industry. Curtin has also spent time at Fortune Asset Management, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aedamar Comiskey Linklaters Comiskey could become the first woman to run a magic circle law firm, after she was shortlisted for the top job at Linklaters in April. She is the lead relationship partner for Linklaters’ FTSE-listed clients for which she was listed in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2016. Deirdre Trapp Freshfields Oxford graduate Trapp has gone toe-to-toe with global agencies on a number of cases, including Tesco’s bust-up with the Groceries Code Adjudicator.

She appeared in the Chambers 100 and has twice won The Lawyer’s Competition Lawyer of the Year. Frances Murphy Slaughter & May Murphy has worked on some of the biggest deals out there, including Burberry’s demerger from GUS, and the £11bn bid for Alliance Boots. She has been named in the Legal 500, Chambers 100 and Square Mile’s 100 Most Powerful in the City. Jenine Hulsmann Clifford Chance Antitrust partner Hulsmann has worked on the likes of BT’s £12.5bn acquisition of EE and EDF’s strategic partnership with China General Nuclear. She is currently advising Sainsbury's on its offer for Home Retail Group. Kirstine Cooper Aviva As the first female general counsel and company secretary in Aviva’s 320 years, Cooper continues to put her money where her mouth is, sponsoring Aviva’s Women’s Network, and is on the board of the English National Ballet.

Penelope Warne CMS One of a handful of women running top-20 firms, CMS’s chairman joined in 1993 to set up its Aberdeen office, growing it from one person to the market leading practice in Scotland. She is an honorary fellow and trustee at Dundee University. Sandie Okoro HSBC Global Asset Management HSBC’s global general counsel boasts a wealth of big names on her CV, including Barings and Schroders. But it’s not just the legal world she has impressed in: Okoro has been named the fourth most influential black person in Britain in 2015 and one of 10 women changing the face of the CIiy. She is passionate about the arts too: she was appointed to the board of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014. Sascha Grimm Cooley LLP Grimm’s day job at Cooley has led to her covering cases involving subjects from the sale of Formula One to a libel claim on behalf of a “prominent” Saudi family. She co-founded Women In Law London in the hope of improving law’s poor retention rates.

Sonya Leydecker Herbert Smith Freehils Herbert Smith became the first leading law firm to appoint a woman as (joint) chief executive when Sonya Leydecker was given the job in 2013, after eight years heading the firm’s global dispute resolution practice. She also set up its Belfast operation. Susan Crichton TSB With more than 25 years’ experience, TSB’s general counsel and company secretary previously helped separate the Post Office from Royal Mail ahead of its IPO. She has also worked at Old Mutual/Skandia and GE Money. Adizah Tejani Level39 A founding member of the team behind Level39, Europe’s first fintech accelerator, Tejani has helped grow it from six startups to more than 170 across three floors. Partnerships have included World Economic Forum, Paypal and Swift. Andrea Ferraz Morgan Stanley Ferraz set up the first dedicated internet research team at Morgan Stanley in London in 2014 and has since made a name for herself as an expert across trends in different internet subsectors, with an intimate knowledge of startups. Gemma Godfrey Moo.la Godfrey mixes being a chief executive, broadcaster and quantum physicist.

Having progressed to head of investment strategy at Brooks Macdonald and even given a Tedx talk, Godfrey’ss now launching Moo.la, designed to make investing more accessible. Irina Haivas GHO Capital Having trained as a medical doctor, Romanian-born, multilingual Haivas is now a principal at GHO Capital, with experience spanning Europe, the US and emerging markets. She has advised multiple private equity funds on healthcare due diligence and post-acquisition projects. Lauren Hurwitz Moelis & Company The Wellesley College and LSE alumnus was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch before moving to Moelis & Company, where she is business manager of its Europe, Middle East and Africa division, and has helped launch its Global Women’s Leadership Forum. Lucy Baldwin Bank of America Merrill Lynch Named as a managing director at Goldman Sachs in her 20s, Baldwin has featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. She is a managing director in BAML’s equity sales management arm in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Marta Krupinska Azimo Having run a business in New York and London (during which she oversaw events for London 2012), Krupinska co-founded Azimo in 2012 after discovering how tough sending money home was. It spans 195 countries, 80 currencies and 20,000 banks. Natalie Campbell A Very Good Company Campbell co-founded social innovation consultancy A Very Good Company in 2010, publishing her first book in 2014. She is also a board member of Wayra UnLtd, a partnership with Telefonica’s startup accelerator programme, and the Big Lottery Fund. Nina Devani DevaniSoft Aged 14, most of us were doing little more than arguing with parents over homework and obsessing about [insert pop star’s name here]. But Devani was busy setting up her computer software company. The acorn was her creating a mobile app to help people remember their passwords - whose market is expected to be valued at $700m by 2019.

Something to think about the next time you listen to Absolute 70s/80s/90s… Sunaina Sinha Cebile Capital Brevan Howard veteran Sinha is the founder of Cebile Capital, which last year advised on $4.2bn of secondaries deal volume. The Brevan Howard veteran got her MBA at Harvard Business School - and is a certified sommelier. Ainslie McLennan Henderson/TH Real Estate McLennan joined Henderson in 2002, since which she has risen to become director of property. She currently runs Henderson UK Property OEIC fund, which has delivered a 39.25 per cent return over the last five years. Alison Nimmo Crown Estate The Queen doesn’t leave just anyone in charge of her £11bn estate: Nimmo became chief executive in 2012, after helping London win its bid for the 2012 Olympics. She was awarded a CBE for services to urban regeneration in 2004.

Alison Platt Countrywide The chief executive of the UK’s largest estate agent’s miles from the shiny-suited stereotype - a former BA stewardess, she joined Countrywide from Bupa in 2014. Platt joined Tesco’s board this year. Antonia Belcher MHBC After 40 years in property, Belcher has worked on everything from the Royal Courts of Justice to Leicester City’s stadium. In 2007 she became a founding equity partner at MHBC. Having transitioned in 2000, she is a vocal LGBT campaigner. Camille Waxer Canary Wharf Group Now its managing director of retail and chief administrative officer, since Waxer started at Canary Wharf in 1990, the area’s retail offering has ballooned from six shops to 1m sq ft and more than 300 retailers, cafes, bars and restaurants.

Dame Alison Carnwath Land Securities Appointed as Land Securities’ chairman in 2008, Carnwath steered the UK’s largest commercial property company through the deepest downturn in living memory, and is now overseeing a series of giant regeneration projects, including a £2bn, 2.2m sq ft, redevelopment of the area around Victoria Station. She was made a Dame in 2014 for her services to business. Lisa Hollands CBRE After trendy EA Shaw was absorbed by CBRE in 2012, Hollands became managing director of central London residential at CBRE. She is now regarded of one of the most powerful people in the capital’s increasingly exclusive residential sector. Liz Peace LandAid UK property’s first lady stepped down as BPF chief in 2014 after 12 years, but her influence remains. Not only does she chair LandAid, but she retains a host of non-executive roles. She was awarded a CBE in 2008. Lucinda Bell British Land Bell joined Cheesegrater joint-owner British Land in 1991, and was promoted to chief financial officer in 2011.

Chief executive Chris Grigg has said he “hopes” she plans to succeed him. She is also a non-executive director at Rotork. Melanie Leech British Property Federation Stepping into predecessor Liz Peace’s shoes (see below) was a challenge, but former policewoman Leech has made it look easy: since becoming chief executive in 2014, she’s helped secure much-needed reforms to business rates in this year’s Budget. Baroness Dido Harding TalkTalk Oxford-educated McKinsey veteran Baroness Harding of Winscombe joined TalkTalk as chief executive in 2010. She had roles at names such as Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and has championed issues including child internet safety, cyber security and internet freedom. Baroness Joanna Shields Minister for internet safety and security Having worked as digital adviser to David Cameron and chair of Tech City UK, Shields is now the government’s minister for internet safety and security. Recent work has focused on child exploitation, launching global initiative WeProtect.

Caroline Makepeace Tech City Having spent several years at UKTI (including in Mumbai), as well as at BBC Worldwide, Makepeace, in November last year Makepeace moved to Tech City UK as chief of staff to lead its strategy and government affairs work. Claudia Brind-Woody IBM Brind-Woody joined IBM in 1996, after a being director of results at Atlanta’s Olympic Games. As well as her job as VP and managing director at IBM IP Licensing, she serves on advisory boards for groups including WorkPlace Pride. Eileen Burbidge Passion Capital Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital, is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Roundabout, with a list of roles and achievements that would make most people feel exhausted just reading: chair of Tech City UK, member of David Cameron's Business Advisory Group; and HM Treasury's Special Envoy for FinTech just to name a few, she also picked up an MBE last summer. Jo Bertram Uber Love or hate it, there’s no denying Uber’s effect on London.

As general manager of UK, Ireland and Nordics, McKinsey alumnus Bertram - who has a pilot’s licence - has been instrumental in its success, while navigating challenges from established rivals. Nicola Mendelsohn Facebook After starting ad agency Karmarama and becoming the first female president of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, she became Facebook’s VP of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and its most senior person outside the US, in 2013. She received her CBE last year. Reshma Sohoni Seedcamp Sohoni started in the US during the dot com boom, but moved to Europe for her MBA and has remained. The strict selection process at Seedcamp - “the Y Combinator of Europe” - which she co-founded, means it boasts an impressive success rate. Sharon White Ofcom An economist with degrees from Cambridge and UCL, this former second permanent secretary to the Treasury responsible for overseeing public finances took on her role as the communications regulator’s chief executive in 2015. Verity Harding Google DeepMind The Oxford and Harvard graduate worked as special adviser to Nick Clegg but joined Google in 2013.

After two years leading its European campaign to counter extremism online, she is now getting stuck into Google’s new AI subsidiary DeepMind as its policy manager. UBN Board - Union Bank of Nigeria UBN Board UBN Board Union Bank 2016-10-07T09:56:08+00:00 Cyril Akporuere Odu Chairman Mr. Cyril Odu was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Union Bank in November 2015. He joined the Board of Union Bank in 2012. Prior to his appointment as Chairman, Mr. Odu was the Chairman of the Bank’s Risk Management Committee and serves as member of the Finance and General Purpose and Credit Committees. Mr. Odu has nearly 45 years of professional, managerial and director level experience. His 40-year distinguished career at ExxonMobil saw him rise from Trainee to Vice Chairman of the Board of Mobil Producing Nigeria and Chief Financial Officer of ExxonMobil Upstream Companies in Nigeria, making him the highest ranking Nigerian in the organisation until his retirement in 2012.

During the span of his career at ExxonMobil he served in many technical and managerial functions including Associate Geologist, Treasurer, Controller, Project Finance Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Country HR Manager and General Manager, Planning and New Business Development. He was actively involved in developing and executing ExxonMobil business strategies in Nigeria, as well in as the implementation of several innovative funding and financing solutions, including the first upstream financing deal (the 1991 Oso Condensate field development) in Nigerian history. In 2008, he served on a presidential committee tasked with accelerating the expansion of Nigeria’s power infrastructure. After his retirement from Exxon Mobil in 2012, Mr. Odu joined African Capital Alliance and is currently Chief Executive of the firm. Mr. Odu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Ibadan, where he graduated with honours. He also has an MBA from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. Emeka Emuwa Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Group Managing Director Mr. Emeka Emuwa joined Union Bank as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Group Managing Director in November 2012. Mr.

Emuwa began his career with a stint in Ernst & Young before joining Citibank where he grew through the ranks from Management Trainee to Managing Director, Citibank Nigeria Ltd, and Citi Country Officer, Nigeria. In Citibank, he served as Citi Country Officer in Cameroon, Tanzania, Gabon, Congo, Ghana and Niger and also worked in various positions within Nigeria. In 2005, he became the first Nigerian to be appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Citibank Nigeria Limited. Mr Emuwa holds a BSc. in Finance from the University of Lagos and a MSc. in Management from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, USA. Other positions he has held include: Director, Accion Microfinance Bank Nigeria Chairman, Nigeria-Portugal Friendship and Business Association Chairman, Junior Achievement Nigeria Ibrahim Abubakar Kwargana Executive Director, Public Sector Ibrahim Abubakar Kwargana has been part of the executive management team of Union Bank since 2009 and is responsible for Commercial and Retail Banking/North and Public Sector Businesses. Mr.

Kwargana has 23 years of experience which spans personnel administration, industrial relations, internal audit, banking operations, marketing and consumer relationship management. He served as Deputy General Manager and Chief Auditor at First Bank of Nigeria Plc. He was also the General Manager, Operations and Resources, FBN (Merchant Bankers) Limited. At the Nigerian International Bank Limited (a subsidiary of the Citigroup) he held strategic roles as the Deputy General Manager and Head of Branch Operations. Mr. Kwargana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Bayero University, Kano and a Masters in Corporate Governance from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Kandolo Kasongo Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Kandolo Kasongo joined the Board of Directors of Union Bank as an Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer in 2013. His first role was as an analyst in Manchester, England and he has since built a 30 year career in the banking industry. His career in risk management commenced with his role as Head of Risk and Senior Credit Officer for East, West and North/West Africa successively based in Johannesburg, Abidjan/Lagos and Cairo in Citibank.

After 27 years at Citigroup, he moved to Barclays Bank as Risk Director for Global Retail and Commercial Banking where he had oversight for 14 African countries, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and Russia. In April 2009 he relocated to Lagos, Nigeria, to take up the position of Credit Head for Nigeria. Mr. Kasongo holds a degree Ingénieur Commercial et de Gestion from the Faculte Universitaire Catholique de Mons, Belgium Oyinkansade Adewale Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer Oyinkan Adewale joined Union Bank of Nigeria Plc as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director in October 2009. Mrs. Adewale is a chartered accountant and financial controller with 34 years of experience in the financial and banking sectors. She is a Fellow of the Institute o f Chartered Accountants and has held several board and executive positions throughout her career. In 2009, the Central Bank of Nigeria appointed her as an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Oceanic Bank with oversight of all the bank’s 13 subsidiaries, the Risk Management Group, Finance Group and Strategic Planning.

She also served as Integration Manager in the merger between Oceanic and Ecobank Nigeria. Mrs. Adewale holds a BA degree in French from the University of Ibadan. Her other achievements include: Co-founder SIAO, a leading indigenous accounting firm in Nigeria Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Renaissance Group, Africa Executive Secretary, Renaissance Group Africa’s Advisory Board Emeka Okonkwo Executive Director, Corporate, International, Investment Banking and Treasury Mr. Emeka Okonkwo joined Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2013 as an Executive Director heading the Bank’s Corporate, International, Investment Banking and Treasury businesses. Mr. Okonkwo’s career in the banking industry commenced 25 years ago as an officer in Citibank Nigeria. It has spanned Corporate Finance, Credit Risk Management, Marketing, Treasury and Strategic Management in Citibank Nigeria and London. In 2009, he was appointed to the board of Citibank Nigeria as an executive director for Commercial Banking and Global Subsidiaries. Prior to joining Union Bank, he was head of the Global Banking Division of Citibank Bangladesh and had responsibility for client relationships of the corporate, financial institutions, public sector and global subsidiaries in the country.

He has a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; an MSCM in Construction Management from the University of Lagos and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. Adekunle Sonola Executive Director, Commercial Banking Adekunle Sonola joined Union Bank in 2015 as an Executive Director in charge of the bank’s Commercial Banking business. Prior to joining the Union Bank, he worked at Guaranty Trust Bank Plc where rose from member of the Corporate Finance Group to Divisional Head, Corporate Banking. He left Guaranty Trust Bank Plc as pioneer Managing Director, East Africa, where he successfully rolled out the franchise in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. He was prior to that Director, Investment Banking Africa, Standard Bank of South Africa. Adekunle has more than 24 years of banking experience and holds several degrees. He is an Alumnus of the Durham University Business School, United Kingdom. Dick Kramer (OFR) Non-Executive Director Dick Kramer joined the Board of Directors of Union Bank as a Non-Executive Director in 2012. Mr.

Kramer is the Chairman of African Capital Alliance, an organization that has pioneered the management of private equity investments in high potential sectors of the Nigerian economy. A trained accountant, he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School prior to joining Arthur Andersen in 1958 where he worked in all regions. He became the founding Managing Partner of the firm in Nigeria in 1978. On his retirement in 1994, Dick remained in Nigeria to consult, invest and continue community service activities. He is a member of the Lagos Business School Advisory Board and the American Business Council. Other achievements include: Recipient, Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) Founder and first Vice Chairman, Nigeria Economic Summit Group President, Harvard Business School Association of Nigeria (HBSAN) Head, Technical Team and Member of Vision 2010 Committee Recipient, Zik Prize in Leadership Akande Onikepo Olufunmike CON, OON Non-Executive Director In April 2008, Chief Dr (Mrs) Nike Akande joined the board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc as a Non-Executive Director. Chief Akande’s career spans over 40 years in Financial Management and Business Administration.

She was a Director of the Nigeria Industrial Development Bank (now the Bank of Industry) and the National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON). She also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Centre for Women Development. Notable achievements and awards include: Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) First female Minister of Industry Member, Industry Manufacturing Sector of the National Council on Privatisation Chairman, International Development Company Ltd. Nigeria Board member, Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Nigeria (HBSAN) Director, PZ Foundation Member, Nigerian Vision 2010 and Vision 20:2020 Committee Adeyemi Osindero Non-Executive Director Yemi Osindero joined the Union Bank board in 2012 as a Non-Executive Director. Dr. Osindero is the Director and the Head of West Africa Private Equity, Standard Chartered Private Equity. His career began as a Senior Analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs. He later joined Virgin Management Limited as an Investment Manager, where he was responsible for financial advisory, strategy and new business initiatives for various companies within the Virgin Group. Mr.

Osindero founded Virgin Nigeria Airways, and served as its head of Corporate Development and later Chief Operating Officer. His other positions include: Chairman, Board of Airline Representatives in Nigeria Member, Nigeria Leadership Initiative Member, Independent Audit Committee of the Nigerian Future Awards Mansur Ahmed Non-Executive Director Engr. Mansur Ahmed joined the board of Union Bank as a Non-Executive Director in October 2007. Mansur Ahmed is a professional with forty years of experience that spans manufacturing industries as well as commerce and development financing. Some organizations in which he has served include Dunlop Nigeria Industries Limited, Bagauda Textiles Limited, Kaduna Textiles Limited, the New Nigerian Development Company Limited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Passionate about good governance and a responsible private sector, he spearheaded, as the CEO of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, a campaign for the improvement of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria. John C. Botts Non-Executive Director In 2012, John C. Botts became a Non-Executive Director on the board of Union Bank as a representative of Corsair Capital. Mr Botts is Senior Advisor to Allen & Company Advisors LLP and Corsair Capital, both located in the UK.

He has held management positions with Citibank in New York and other major cities. His other roles in the Citigroup include Chief Executive Officer of Citicorp Investment Bank and Business Manager for Citibank`s Global Investment Bank in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Other accomplishments include: Recipient, Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Director, MPC Capital AG Non-Executive Director, Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. Director and Chairman, Botts & Company Limited Governor, University of the Arts Trustee of the Tate Foundation and National Theatre Foundation Richard Burrett Non-Executive Director Richard Burrett joined the board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2013. Richard has a career of over thirty years, twenty-five of which has been in international banking. He is currently a partner at Earth Capital Partners, a fund management business that targets sustainable asset classes. During over 20 years at ABN AMRO, he developed vast experience in project and structured finance, specialising in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Whilst there, he was instrumental to the creation of the Equator Principles, a market recognised standard for managing environmental and social risk issues in project financing.

Mr Burrett holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration, Durham University Business School. Mr. Burrett has held a number of board level advisory roles and has been Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment. Non-Executive Director Mr. Ian Clyne joined the board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2014. Ian’s 37 year career began at the National Australia Bank Group in 1978. He has worked in various executive management positions in international companies around the world including the Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation and the Calyon Group (formerly Banque Indosuez). In his immediate past role as the MD/CEO of Bank South Pacific Limited, a publicly listed company on the Port Moresby Stock Exchange, he oversaw a successful transformation programme to near completion. He holds a Bachelor of Business Management Studies from the University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Beatrice A. Hamza Bassey Non-Executive Director Beatrice A. Hamza Bassey joined the board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2015. She is the current General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Atlas Mara Limited.

A lawyer of great repute with extensive experience in corporate governance and financial institutions, she is an authority in compliance and represents clients globally in compliance and anti-corruption matters. Beatrice interfaces with U.S. and international regulators, designs integrated compliance programmes, policies and procedures tailored to client specification, internal investigations and more. She holds an LL.B in Law from University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, a BL in Law from the Nigerian Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1995 and the New York Bar in 1999. Other notable achievements include: Fellow, David Rockefeller Fellows Program John Vitalo Non-Executive Director Mr. John Vitalo joined the Board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2015. He is the CEO of Atlas Mara Co-Invest Limited. John Vitalo has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector and began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley and Co in New York. Prior to joining Barclay’s Bank Plc, he worked as the CEO of Absa Capital, South Africa, and was at different times, Managing Director, and Chief Operating Officer of Ratesat Barclays Capital.

He also held various managerial positions at Credit Suisse First Boston. John has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University, Washington DC. He was decorated with the Combat Action Ribbon by the United States Marine Corps in Beirut, and has attained the rank of Corporal (E-4). He is also a recipient of the Wall Street Journal and Mark McGettrick Memorial Award. Arina MacDonald Non-Executive Director Ms. Arina MacDonald joined the board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2015. She is the Chief Financial Officer of Atlas Mara Limited. Arina MacDonald has over 19 years of experience in banking and financial services which spans the Investment Banking Acquisition and Debt Advisory Services and Mergers and Acquisitions. In M&A she was part of the team that led the acquisitions in Argentina and Russia for the Standard Bank Group. She began her career with a 3-years traineeship at Coopers and Lybrand, and joined the London office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999. She holds several degrees in Accountancy from the University of Pretoria, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) after ‘traineeship’ at former Coopers & Lybrand.

She passed the Public Accountants and Auditors Board Examination in 1996. PRESS DIGEST- British Business - June 27 PRESS DIGEST- British Business - June 27 Tweet Share The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Telegraph Housebuilders, banks and markets were lifted on Thursday after the Bank of England decided against taking draconian steps to cool the housing market. BARCLAYS SHARES HIT 19-MONTH-LOW ON DARK POOL CLAIMS Barclays shares slumped to their lowest level for 19 months on Thursday after the bank was accused by U.S. authorities of defrauding investors. The Guardian Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, is hoarding land and buildings covering an area big enough to build 15,000 homes, a Guardian analysis has revealed. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK ISSUES PROFIT WARNING Standard Chartered warned that profits will fall this year and said the head of its worst-performing business had gone on a long-term break from the Asia-focused bank.

The Times ( ) Hurricane Energy said it successfully drilled the first exploration well into granite rock beneath the Atlantic waters close to Britain. It said the gusher at its Lancaster field in the West of Shetlands proved that oil could be produced from "fractured basement reservoirs", describing it as a "game-changer" for the UK. GLENCORE GETS WITH THE TIMES WITH FIRST FEMALE BOARD MEMBER Glencore has appointed Patrice Merrin, a Canadian mining veteran, as a non-executive director, becoming the last FTSE 100 company to appoint a woman on its board. The Independent

Question: Which British bank was the first to appoint a female manager in 1958
Answer: Barclays