Following her recent keynote speech at our Journey to Net Zero Summit Dr Sarah Ivory, Senior Lecturer in Executive Education, Climate Change and Sustainability at University of Edinburgh Business School, makes the case for a Duty of Care and a Duty of Hope in Scotland’s financial services industry.

In this blog, Grace Robertson, Consultant at EY’s Sustainable Finance Team dives into the important topic of the Just Transition, describing what a Just Transition truly means, why it is so important and how the financial services industry can collaborate to achieve Net Zero and do so in a way that manages the social impact and ensures nobody is left behind.

In our latest Spotlight on Higher Education blog, Supta Das tells us about her Graduate Apprenticeship in IT management at Heriot-Watt University and how it helped her develop the key skills she needed to navigate to world of work and thrive in her current role at EY Scotland.

As part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2024, we asked the latest addition to the SFE team, Lana McGill to write a blog for us discussing her office administration apprenticeship, what she has learned over the past 6 months and how she feels she has progressed since joining.

In our next spotlight on higher education blog, Matej Mezes, of PwC provides insight on his accountancy degree at Edinburgh Napier University whilst working a full time job as a duty manager at the Edinburgh University Pleasance gym before eventually landing a place on the Actuarial Services Graduate Programme at PwC.

After receiving the rising star award at the 2023 Scottish Financial Services Awards, Rachel Coleman of Pinsent Masons has shared a blog with us outlining her current role, the work she carried out that enabled her to win the award and how it felt to receive such recognition.

In our first spotlight on higher education blog, Robert Glover from abrdn shares his career story to date, his regret at not pursuing higher education early in his career but how he has now corrected this through applying to a graduate apprenticeship scheme where he is now working towards a full Bsc Hon degree as a data scientist.

Origo Chief Executive and SFE board member, Anthony Rafferty has shared an insight blog with us diving into the importance of a company having a why. In the blog Anthony shares examples of his business Origo’s why and also expresses the need for no more paper-based processes in the workplace whilst providing examples of what Origo are doing to address this.

After winning the leading the journey to net zero award at the 2023 Scottish Financial Services Awards, Eva Cairns of abrdn has shared an insight blog with us outlining the framework that herself and her sustainability team put together, designed to empower investors to hold corporate firms accountable when it comes to the credibility of their climate strategies and promises

As part of this year’s Scottish Careers Week we’re celebrating inspiring career stories that showcase diverse experiences and different career paths across our industry. Last but not least, Teresa Bradley shares her experience entering the financial services industry from a low socio-economic background

As part of this year’s Scottish Careers Week we’re celebrating inspiring career stories that showcase diverse experiences and different career paths across our industry. Anna Gillies from FinTech Scotland is up next to share her journey into financial services.

As part of this year’s Scottish Careers Week we’re celebrating inspiring career stories that showcase diverse experiences and different career paths across our industry. Ally Moncrieff from Lloyds Banking Group shares his story about a journey into financial services and wealth management.

In our latest insight blog, we spoke down to sat down with Sanghamitra Karra from Morgan Stanley’s Inclusive Ventures Group, which provides access to capital and connections to early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies led by underrepresented founders.

The SFE Young Professionals’ Learn about Me series aims to highlight the different routes, variety of roles, and experiences of young professionals in the financial services industry. Our next blog is with SFE YP Firm Rep Lead and Events and Relationships Manager at SFE, Rachel Kennedy.

Since his son was diagnosed with autism, Capco's Aistair Proven has been exploring what neurodiversity really means and why its important that businesses and communities embrace people's difference and keep an open mind. Give Alistair's Spotlight on Diversity & Inclusion blog a read here.

The latest blog in our Spotlight on Diversity & Inclusion series comes from Sabrina Khan of Encompass Corporation. Sabrina discusses her Pakistani background and the unspoken barriers that can exist in ethnically and culturally homogeneous workplaces, and the steps that Encompass Corporation have taken to make her feel welcome.

The latest blog in our Spotlight on Diversity & Inclusion series comes from Rumaanah Fada of Lloyds Banking Group who emphasises the importance of speaking freely and openly about diversity and inclusion, the need to bridge the knowledge gap surrounding the topic and Lloyds Banking Groups ‘Bringing your whole self to work’ initiative and the positive effects that is starting to bring.

In our latest insight blog, Lindsay Lee, Senior Associate in Banking and Finance at Brodies, outlines the support, advice and information that is still available to firms regarding the Consumer Duty, the next steps that firms should be taking and how the FCA might approach non-compliance.

The SFE Young Professionals’ Learn about Me series aims to highlight the different routes, variety of roles, and experiences of young professionals in the financial services industry. Our next blog is with SFE YP Changing Customer Needs workstream committee member, Nathan Thompson.

On the back of the Vulnerable Customer Summit we hosted back in May, Nile have kindly shared a blog with us, breaking down the key topics of the day, which also includes the key challenges we as an industry face to overcome these issues and ways in which we as an industry can better collaborate.