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Monday 03 June 2024 10:38 am  |  Updated:  Monday 10 June 2024 8:11 am

Progress Pioneers Summit: Is the financial services industry really building a bridge for underrepresented groups?

By: Emmanuel Nwosu

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Powered by Progress Together, Progress Pioneers is an event that celebrates everything the financial services sector is doing to better the industry for people and workers from all socio-economic backgrounds. 

They say there has been a huge success within the sector in creating opportunities for people from different backgrounds – diversifying the boardroom in some sort. But is this really true? Is the financial services industry really building a bridge for underrepresented groups to be part of what some might call a gated community?

Well, that’s what CityAM head of social media Emmanuel Nwosu went there to find out. 

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