Diversity and Inclusion

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In June 2020, HM Treasury published an updated list of Women in Finance Charter signatories on gov.uk amongst which DDGI was proud to be included as a recent signatory. The Charter was introduced by HM Treasury in March 2016 to ensure signatory organisations can work together to help build greater gender balance in financial services, reflecting the UK government’s aspiration to see greater gender balance throughout the industry.

Through signing the Charter, DDGI has committed to promoting gender diversity by:

• Having a member of the senior executive team who is responsible and accountable for gender diversity and inclusion
• Setting internal targets for gender diversity in senior management
• Publishing progress annually against these targets in reports on the DDCAP Group website (to be published September 2021)
• Having an intention to ensure the pay of the senior executive team is linked to delivery against internal targets for gender diversity

DDGI’s targets within the Charter are to:

• Achieve (or exceed) having at least 50% women in senior roles;
• Add female representation to the Group’s FinTech expertise in the UK, targeting the addition of 1-2 women by year-end 2020;
• Achieve further equality within the Group’s Risk and EXCOM Committees. Changes in Committee membership and resultant adjustment to gender  representation in April 2020 saw an increase in female representation, however we are keen to ensure that further gender balance is achieved within Senior Management positions;
• Increase female representation within the Group’s representative offices overseas;
• Increase female representation at Executive Director and Board level within DDGI (as the signatory to the Charter) in the London office by financial year-end 2020/2021.

Natalie Morse, Executive Director and Joint Company Secretary, has been appointed as the Senior Management Team member responsible for DDGI’s diversity and inclusion work.

Remuneration for members of our senior executive team is determined against financial and non-financial objectives, which are set annually through the Group’s formal Appraisal and Interim Review processes.  The non-financial objectives will include a commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Stella Cox CBE, Managing Director commented that: “DDGI’s admittance as a signatory to Women in Finance Charter is an exciting and welcome development for the DDCAP Group. As a female executive mandated for more than 20 years to lead a financial services business it will be no surprise that a focus on diversity and inclusion has been at the heart of our organisation for a very long time. However we must not be complacent and, having established our internal policies, commitments and ambitions, our signatory status now affords us an unprecedented and privileged opportunity to collaborate with other financial sector firms who share our values so as to accelerate our endeavours and make public disclosure of our intentions, setting targets that will continue to challenge us as we progress.”