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Being a responsible leader in the world of financial services

In the current climate, financial services leaders have huge personal responsibilities and pressures ranging from creating the right employment culture to creating diversity and using new technology properly. Here, we assess the pressures and potential of being a responsible leader and why it’s important.

FS Jul Aug 19 - Cover image Hakan Enver, managing director of financial services at recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, says that financial services leaders have huge personal responsibilities and pressures in the current climate. Whether it’s creating the right employment culture, monitoring environmental impact, complying with regulation, assessing political and economic risks, creating diversity, or utilising new technology properly. The list goes on.

It’s no wonder, therefore, that executives could be put off from taking up leadership positions in finance companies. Indeed, the number of senior job seekers in financial services has halved in two years, according to Morgan McKinley’s latest Employment Monitor figures.


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