"as an affiliate rather than a subsidiary and except for the presence of a Barclays' director ""the affiliation made no difference in the conduct of the Bank's business"". During the inter-war period, more than 40 new branches were opened giving British Linen a Scottish network of over 170 branches by 1939. In 1969 Barclays sold British Linen to Bank of Scotland in exchange for a 35 per cent holding in the latter bank. The merger with the Bank of Scotland was finalised with the Bank of Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1970, confirming the transfer of the assets and liabilities of"
"Hilda Harding Hilda Millicent Harding (10 September 1915 – 9 May 1998) was appointed by Barclays Bank as Britain’s first female bank manager. She was the great-aunt of British children’s author Robin Bennett. Hilda joined the High Wycombe branch of Barclays Bank as a shorthand typist, on 18 June 1934. She earned £50 per annum. In 1939 she transferred to Henley-on-Thames branch as a ledger clerk; in 1941 she was appointed secretary to the local Directors at Reading. After the Second World War, in 1947, she was one of the first women to attend the Barclays training school at Chester"
"female bank manager. Hilda Harding managed Barclays' Hanover Square branch in London until her retirement in 1970. In 1965, Barclays established a US affiliate, Barclays Bank of California in San Francisco. Barclays launched the first credit card in the UK, Barclaycard, in 1966. On 27 June 1967, Barclays deployed the world's first cash machine, in Enfield. The British actor Reg Varney was the first person to use the machine. In 1969, a planned merger with Martins Bank and Lloyds Bank was blocked by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, but the acquisition of Martins Bank on its own was later permitted."
"all Bank of England notes, Jane Austen on the reverse of the current polymer £10 note is the third historical woman depicted on a Bank of England note. The previous two historical women were Elizabeth Fry on the last paper £5 note from 2002 until May 2017 and Florence Nightingale on the £10 from 1975 until 1994. As Chief Cashier, Cleland's signature appears on all Bank of England banknotes. Victoria Cleland was present at Spink London on 3 October 2016 for the charity auction of Bank of England banknotes, all bearing her signature as Chief Cashier. The auction consisted of"
"Clydesdale Bank £50 note The Clydesdale Bank £50 note is a banknote of the pound sterling. It is the second largest denomination of banknote issued by the Clydesdale Bank. The current cotton note, first issued in 2009 bears a portrait of Elsie Inglis, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, on the obverse and an image of the Antonine Wall on the reverse. The Clydesdale Bank began issuing banknotes (although not in £50 denominations) in 1838, the same year as the bank's founding. Early banknotes were monochrome, and printed on one side only. The issuing of banknotes by Scottish banks was"
"Susan Rice (banker) Dame Susan Ilene Rice (née Wunsch; born 7 March 1946) is a British banker and head of the Scottish Fiscal Commission. In 2000 she became the first female leader of a British clearing bank. She is the chair of Scottish Water and a member of the Banking Standards Board. Susan Wunsch was born on 7 March 1946 in Rhode Island in the United States. She read biology and philosophy of science at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, United States, graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts. At Wellesley she met Scottish historian Duncan Rice; they married shortly after"
"People since 2012. In February, during an interview with the Guardian, Cleland revealed that she does not use contactless payment cards, in part because she was yet to fully trust the technology. Cleland pointed out that this was a personal opinion and not the official view of the Bank of England. Victoria Cleland Victoria Mary Florence Cleland (born 26 February 1970) was the Director for Banknotes and Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, a position she held from March 2014 until 1 June 2018 when was replaced by Sarah John (the third woman to be named as Chief Cashier)"
"Charlotte Hogg Charlotte Mary Hogg (born 26 August 1970) is a British management consultant and senior executive in financial services and central banking. In October 2017 she was appointed as CEO of Visa’s European operations. She was the chief operating officer of the Bank of England between 2013 and 2017, and additionally served briefly as Deputy Governor (Markets and Banking) at the Bank of England from 1 March 2017 to 14 March 2017, before resigning from both positions because she had failed to declare that her brother was employed in the banking industry. She previously worked for McKinsey & Company,"
"World Banking emerged. In 1978, Walsh served as a project director at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment where she consulted on appropriate technology. Walsh became a co-founder of Women’s World Banking and its first president, a position she held from 1980 to 1990. Michaela Walsh (banker) Michaela L. Walsh, financier, banker, founder and first president of Women's World Banking. Walsh was one a handful of women working on Wall Street in the 1950s when she became the first female manager to represent Merrill Lynch International in their Beirut, Lebanon office in 1960. In 1970, Walsh became the first"
"Victoria Cleland Victoria Mary Florence Cleland (born 26 February 1970) was the Director for Banknotes and Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, a position she held from March 2014 until 1 June 2018 when was replaced by Sarah John (the third woman to be named as Chief Cashier) . She is the second woman to hold the post of Chief Cashier. She replaced Chris Salmon when he was appointed as Executive Director for Markets at the Bank of England. Cleland studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and was sponsored by the Bank for an MBA"
"Morgan Stanley spin-off, Discover Financial Services. In 2008, she returned to the United Kingdom to join Experian and was appointed a managing director with responsibility for the UK and Ireland operations. She moved to Santander UK in September 2011 as head of high street operations. In 2012, she earned £2.5 million. In June 2013, she was selected as the Bank of England's first chief operating officer (COO) by new Governor Mark Carney. She took up the appointment on 1 July 2013. This made her the most senior female employee in the bank's history, and effectively the deputy to the Governor"
"Val Gooding Val Gooding, CBE was Chief Executive of Bupa, from 1998 to May 2008. She was appointed a CBE for services to business in 2002. She has been credited various entrepreneur awards since her Executiveship. ""Fortune"" magazine calls her one of the most successful women. She was named as the highest earning female executive in Britain during 2004, being paid more than £1.4 million in salary and bonuses. Gooding joined BUPA from British Airways where she held a number of executive positions. She is a non-executive director of J Sainsbury plc (since January 2007) and of Standard Chartered Bank"
"be Clara Abbott, a director of Abbott Laboratories from 1900. The survey also found that the average first year of appointing a company's first female director was 1985. In 2001, Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company. Katharine Graham, previously the chairwoman of the board of The Post Co., was the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972. Ursula Burns, the Chairman and CEO of Xerox, was the first African American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The desire to achieve proportionate gender representation on corporate boards is derived from the principle"
"Juliet Wheldon Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC (26 March 1950 – 2 September 2013) was a British civil servant, latterly (as of 2009) the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service. In 2008 she was named as one of The Times Law 100. Wheldon attended Sherborne School For Girls and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history, before being called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1975. Dame Juliet"
"Loretta Swit, Phyllis Diller, Farrah Fawcett and Anne Bancroft all had accounts there. The bank's mission was expressly feminist. The bank's board of directors believed that many women did not have enough experience with personal finance or the same access to credit as men. The bank therefore focused on helping women manage their money, especially after divorce. Ironically, when the Board first searched for a CEO they were unable to find a qualified woman. Therefore, Rowan Henry, a man, was hired. By late 1976, more than $1.5 million in stock had been sold to about 1300 shareholders, 63% of whom"
"as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Aberdeen and they moved back to Scotland. She joined the Bank of Scotland in 1997. In September 2000 she was appointed as chief executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland and so become the first female to lead a British clearing bank. In May 2008 took on the role of chairman in addition to this. When the Lloyds Banking Group was created by takeover of HBOS that year, Rice was appointed as managing director of Scottish part of the group. Rice retired from this position in December 2014. She became a non-executive director at Scottish and"
"Brenda Vineyard Runyon Brenda Vineyard Runyon (1868 - 1929), founder and director of the First Woman's Bank of Tennessee in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1919. The bank was the first bank in the United States to be managed and directed entirely by women. Ms Runyon resigned her position in 1926 due to failing health and was unable to secure a successor. The First Trust and Savings Bank of Clarksville absorbed the bank in 1926. Ms. Runyon was the wife of a Clarksville physician Dr. Frank Runyon. Both doctor and Ms Runyon were born in Trenton, Todd County, Kentucky. They had two"
"Kamel Hothi Kamel Hothi OBE (Punjabi: ਕਮਲ ਹੋਥੀ) (born in 1962 in India) is a British banker and financial adviser. Hothi has worked at Lloyds Bank since about 1979. Kamel became TSB's first female manager in the South-east and the bank's first Asian manager. She is ranked in the top 100 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in the UK. She is credited with developing the Asian Strategy across the Lloyds Banking Group in Britain, which improved access to finance for Ethnic communities. She is an advisory board member of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Fund setup in 2018"
"Barbara Judge Barbara Thomas Judge, Lady Judge, CBE (""née"" Singer; born 28 December 1946 in New York City), known before as Barbara Singer Thomas, is an American-British lawyer and businesswoman, based in London with dual US/UK citizenship. She was the first female Chairman of the Institute of Directors, a previous Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the Chairman of the United Kingdom's fraud prevention service Cifas, a former Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund and a UK Business Ambassador on behalf of UK Trade & Investment. She is also a trustee of several cultural and charitable institutions, including"
"Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg (born 14 May 1946), through marriage the Viscountess Hailsham, is an English economist and journalist. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company. She was born as Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, her father being John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General. She attended the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot. Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). While at Oxford University, she edited ""Cherwell"", the student newspaper. Through"
"of 2013 the business bank had lent more than £113m, with more than 250 loans. In October 2014, Mike Kirsopp was appointed as Chief Executive Officer for the bank, which was followed by the opening of a Bristol-based regional office covering the South West and Wales regions of the UK. A Sheffield based regional office was also opened in 2014 covering the North and Scotland regions. In July 2015, Rachel Curtis-Bowen, Executive Director Customer Experience was appointed to the board and was the first female member. In September 2016 she was promoted to the role of Chief Customer Officer. Also"
"Heather Melville Heather Patricia Melville (born 1962) is a British banker, the Director for Strategic Partnerships and Head of Business Inclusion Initiatives of Royal Bank of Scotland. In September 2016, Heather Melville CCMI was appointed to the Board and as Chair of the Advisory Committee for 'CMI Women', Chartered Management Institute. Melville is a diversity, inclusion leader and founder and Global Chair of RBS Focused Women's Network. She is recognised in Financial Times 2016 inaugural UPstanding100 Executive BAME Power List (UK & US) and Financial Times 2017 EMpower 100 ethnic minority leaders 100. In 2017 Heather was recognised with an"
"House, Wimbledon, and a year after that she transferred to Barclays Head Office as secretary to a senior executive. In 1950 she attended the administrative staff college at Henley on Thames (now Henley Business School). Finally, on 15 May 1958, she was announced as Barclays' first female bank manager, at the planned new Hanover Square branch in London. The new branch opened in December 1958, with a staff of six including two women deputies. Harding retired on 10 September 1970. She lived at Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames, and ran a market garden until her death in 1998. Hilda Harding Hilda Millicent"
"noting that the bank began recruiting at Harvard Business School in 1957, arranged the financing of the 1958 Hollywood film, ""South Pacific"", and had its branches in Cuba nationalized in 1959 by the new socialist government, and has its first African-American director in 1969, Franklin A. Thomas. The company organically entered the leasing and credit card sectors, and its introduction of US dollar denominated certificates of deposit in London marked the first new negotiable instrument in the market since 1888. Later to become part of MasterCard, the bank introduced its ""First National City Charge Service"" credit card—popularly known as the"
"then their headquarters. It was originally named Untitled, but gained the nickname ""Iron Man"", which Gormley requested be changed to ""Iron:Man"" and become the official name for it. It was controversial initially, with early accusations of rusting being disproved by Gormley when he stated that the type of iron used encourages oxidation to protect the metal. There were rumours that when Diana, Princess of Wales, came to officially reopen Victoria Square in 1994, the statue was hidden from her view. When the bank relocated its headquarters to Bristol, some in Birmingham at the time felt the statue should be relocated"
"the Bank of England, Hogg was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Visa’s European operations in October 2017. In 1999, Hogg married Steven Sacks the couple have two children. Charlotte Hogg Charlotte Mary Hogg (born 26 August 1970) is a British management consultant and senior executive in financial services and central banking. In October 2017 she was appointed as CEO of Visa’s European operations. She was the chief operating officer of the Bank of England between 2013 and 2017, and additionally served briefly as Deputy Governor (Markets and Banking) at the Bank of England from 1 March 2017 to 14"
"First Women The First Women Programme is a United Kingdom awards program for women. It was created by Real Business in 2005. First Women is supported by the Confederation of British Industry. Henrietta Jowitt, Deputy Director-General, Commercial at the CBI gave the keynote speech at the 2016 First Woman Awards. The First Women Young Achiever Award has celebrated the likes of Emma Hagan, chief risk officer at Silicon Valley Bank, aged 24, and Amanda White, who headed up the HS3 rail project. First Woman of Business Services Jan Flawn CBE, who launched her business at the age of 50 after"
"Clara Furse Dame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse DBE (born 16 September 1957) was the Chief executive of the London Stock Exchange between January 2001 and May 2009, and was the first female to occupy the position. In 2005 she was ranked 19th in Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business list. In 2007, Furse was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Furse was born in Canada to Dutch parents, and educated at schools in Colombia, Denmark and Britain. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1979 with a BSc (Econ) Today Clara Furse is"
"She earned a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1952 and an MBA from New York University in 1958. She worked for two years as a buyer at Bloomingdale's before landing a job on Wall Street, as a securities analyst at Dominick & Dominick. She was the first woman hired by the firm who was not a receptionist. In 1963, with $3.8 million in funding from her brother, Bernard, who was a successful businessman, she and her husband created a holding company, Golden West Financial Corporation, and acquired Golden West Savings and Loan Association (renamed the World Savings Bank) in"
"number of Female CEO’s with the FTSE 100 also rose between 2014 and 2015 also increased. In Spring 2014 the report showed there were 4 female CEOs in the FTSE 100, this increase to 5 by Spring 2015. By 2017, the number of female CEOs among Fortune 500 companies numbered 32 (~6%). Female Chief Financial Officers Female CFO’s in the FTSE 100 saw the highest increase. In Spring 2014 there were 8 female CFO’s in the FTSE 100, this rose to 12 by Spring 2015. Although rather than 100 companies, this figure was out of 99 due to one company"
"May 2014. Budge made several changes at the club immediately after taking control, including the appointment of Craig Levein as Director of Football and Robbie Neilson as Head Coach. In November 2016, Budge was awarded the 'fcbusiness SPFL CEO of the Year' award at the Football Business Awards 2016. Ann Budge Ann Budge (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish businesswoman and company director. Graduating with a psychology degree, Budge became the first woman appointed to a senior position in Scottish & Newcastle after starting her career there as a trainee programmer. After leaving F International - now Xansa -"
"Cynthia Carroll Cynthia Blum Carroll (born November 13, 1956) is a British businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer of Anglo American PLC, a British mining company, which, among other things, is the world's largest platinum producer. On October 24, 2006, Carroll was hired by Anglo American, and joined the board in January 2007, becoming chief executive at the beginning of March 2007. She chaired Anglo American’s Executive Committee and sat on the Safety and Sustainable Development Committee. She was one of only three female chief executives of FTSE 100 companies and the first non-South African to hold the post"
"She took over as Chairwoman of Virgin Money UK on 31 March 2018. This appointment created the first all-female leadership team at a major British bank, with Jayne-Anne Gadhia acting as chief executive officer. Irene Dorner Irene Mitchell Dorner (born 5 December 1954) was the former President, CEO and Managing Director of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. and HSBC USA. In 2014, she retired from her 32-year career at HSBC. A qualified barrister at law, during her career Dorner worked in a range of roles in the United Kingdom and internationally. She was the first woman CEO of HSBC, Malaysia."