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Financial services

While the usual UK employment laws apply to financial services employers, there are a number of key extra issues for them to deal with.

For example, individuals performing controlled functions must have approved person status, which is obtained by making an application to the Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority.

XpertHR provides HR information and guidance for employers in financial services.


    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Hybrid working
    • Financial services

    PwC uses traffic-light monitoring for office attendance

    by Rob Moss 14 Aug 2025
    by Rob Moss 14 Aug 2025

    PwC uses traffic-light dashboard to monitor employees' attendance in the office, taking data from swipe cards and WiFi connections.

    • Change management
    • NHS
    • Financial services

    Personnel Today Awards 2025 shortlist: Change management

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Aug 2025

    The huge efforts made to shift cultures, revitalise particular functions and improve performance at each of our shortlisted change management entries impressed the judges

    • Sexual harassment
    • Financial services
    • Discipline

    Adviser who made sexual remarks unfairly dismissed by Barclays

    by Jo Faragher 11 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Aug 2025

    A financial adviser who was accused of making sexual comments to female colleagues was unfairly dismissed thanks to procedural failures.

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Equal pay

    Gender pay gaps narrow in 2024-25

    by Rob Moss 17 Jul 2025
    by Rob Moss 17 Jul 2025

    The average UK gender pay gap has seen the second largest decrease since the introduction of pay gap reporting in 2017.

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Fraud

    Financial analyst guilty of insider dealing while WFH

    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025

    A financial analyst and his sister have been convicted of insider dealing and money laundering after using working from home as a cover.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Allianz to cut 650 jobs in the UK

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Jun 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Jun 2025

    Allianz tells employees in its UK insurance arm that it is to cut 650 jobs because of difficult market conditions.

    • Financial services
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • ESG

    Finance professionals expect less emphasis on ESG and DEI

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025

    More than half of senior professionals in UK financial services believe their employer will place less emphasis on DEI and ESG in the future.

    • NHS
    • Financial services
    • Apprenticeships

    Scrapping Level 7 apprenticeship funding is a ‘major blow’

    by Rob Moss 27 May 2025
    by Rob Moss 27 May 2025

    Impact of limiting Level 7 apprenticeship funding to 16 to 21-year-olds will be felt by the NHS, accountancy firms and leadership training.

    • Hybrid working
    • Bonuses
    • Financial services

    HSBC employees warned of office attendance link to pay

    by Adam McCulloch 22 May 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 22 May 2025

    Staff at the finance giant have been warned via a memo that office attendance could lead to a pay cut via annual appraisals.

    • Financial services
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    • Sectors

    Revolut hails employee compliance tracking system

    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2025
    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2025

    Points are granted or docked using its Karma system, which was introduced in 2020 to oversee how well employees met risk and compliance rules.

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

    Former Citibank employee settles sex discrimination case

    by Jo Faragher 28 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 28 Mar 2025

    A former Citibank employee has settled a sex and disability discrimination claim for £215,000.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Santander branch closures put 750 jobs at risk

    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025

    Santander has announced plans to close 95 branches across the UK, putting 750 jobs at risk.

    • Sexual harassment
    • Financial services
    • Corporate governance

    Crispin Odey faces £1.8m fine and ban from financial services

    by Rob Moss 18 Mar 2025
    by Rob Moss 18 Mar 2025

    FCA announces decision to fine Crispin Odey £1.8m and ban him from the UK financial services industry for a lack of integrity.

    • Social mobility
    • Sexual harassment
    • Financial services

    City financial regulators scrap DEI measures

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Mar 2025

    The Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority have written to Treasury Committee MPs to state they will retain existing framework rather than apply new DEI measures.

    • Financial services
    • Legal sector
    • Discipline

    Former BNP Paribas lawyer fined for using offensive nicknames

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Mar 2025

    Solicitors Regulation Authority orders BNP Paribas lawyer to pay £31,000 after using nicknames such as ‘Pol Pot’ and ‘Jabba the Hutt’.

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