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Interbank is hosting a networking evening on Thursday 20th February 2020 from 6.30pm at The Law Society. This is an exciting venue which we are returning to in Chancery Lane.

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interbank-lgbt-networking-evening-feb-2020-tickets-92933541725

The Interbank professional networking events offer an opportunity to meet and socialise with other LGBTQ+ people working within financial services, in an informal business environment.

Everyone is welcome and we continue to focus on encouraging our Women+ members to attend as part of a drive to increase presence and visibility. With this in mind this month we will have hosts Marion Bentata (State Street) and Ewa Pisarczyk (BNY Mellon).

This month we would like to highlight LGBT History Month. This is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

Some of you might have noticed in the news there was a fire at Law Society in January. Although this was in a different building from where we hold the networking events.

We’ll see you there!　

Friends, partners and allies welcome as always.

NB photos maybe taken at the event for future Interbank communications.

When you register, we would like some additional information from you:

At Interbank, we are constantly working to ensure we are as inclusive as possible and that we truly represent and reflect the rich diversity of our members in terms of background, sexuality, gender identity and expression. To do this we want to try and reach and engage with as many of you as we possibly can. It is hard for us to measure our success in this regard, if we don’t get to know our members. Please be assured your information is used in aggregate and will never be shared with anyone at Interbank, or beyond.

The Interbank LGBT Forum members also collaborate to sponsor and hold the following events:

Monthly Networking Evening.

BFI Flare: The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: the Interbank LGBT Forum sponsors a film at the annual festival held at the British Film Institute. To find out more about the festival, go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/flare

Positive East Red Run: the Interbank LGBT Forum sponsored the Positive East Red Run 2017. For more details, please see http://www.redrun.org.uk

Inside & Out: we speak at an annual recruitment event aimed at LGBT graduates to improve knowledge and awareness of roles in the investment banking industry. For more details, see http://www.insideandout-banking.co.uk/

Dear colleagues and friends,

After a successful launch in October 2019 (and an end of year break) we are back and ready for the next LBT+ women lunch and catch-up!

Where?

Canary Wharf – The Pearson Room @12:30PM

Please confirm attendance here.

We will continue to host regular lunches between Canary Wharf and the City throughout 2020 so look out for further updates on this website.

Do not hesitate to forward this invite on to other LBT+ women who would like to join us.

Looking forward to seeind you there,

Ewa, Jacqui, Marion and Rikki.

In partnership with Moody’s, Nomura’s LGBTA network hosted “A Conversation with Lisa Wright” on 1 May, in recognition of Lesbian Visibility Day on 26 April.

Lisa Wright, a Senior Director of the Bureau van Dijk- a Moody’s Analytics Company- and recipient of Global Excellence Award for “Most Influential Woman in UK M&A Research”, spoke to a great turnout of attendees from across Interbank’s member firms including EY and Bloomberg as well as others from outside the organisation such as PinkNews and Freshfields.

Lisa spoke about her career trajectory and her experiences of being both a female leader, and an out lesbian in the workplace.  During a very honest conversation led by Nomura’s Rebecca Matts, Head of Corporate Communications, EMEA, a senior LGBT+ Ally at Nomura, Lisa explored the approach she took to coming out at work, especially to new employers, and how she now uses those experiences to aid her in managing a diverse team with diverse cultural and personal viewpoints. Alex Hawley from PwC’s GLEE network commented “it was great to hear someone as senior and accomplished as Lisa Wright speaking so openly about her own experiences of managers, of mentors, and of the approach she has taken to being an out lesbian in the workplace.”

 

The issues raised in the conversation led to a lively discussion on the floor, centred around strategies to get more women involved, not only in leadership and in lesbian visibility, but also in the diversity conversation and events run by diversity groups in the finance sector.  The exchange of ideas continued over drinks on the 11th floor of Nomura’s office overlooking the Thames.

 

The conversation was informative and enlightening and we’re grateful to Nomura and Moody’s for partnering for this event and giving us the chance to hear from Lisa in recognition of Lesbian Visibility Day.

To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day*, Nomura’s LGBTA Network, in partnership with Moody’s will be hosting a conversation with Lisa Wright, a Senior Director of the Bureau van Dijk- a Moody’s Analytics Company.

Lisa has almost three-decades of experience in the financial information industry and is a knowledge expert in Global M&A, acting in an advisory role to the group’s sales teams worldwide. In 2018, Lisa was awarded the Global Excellence Award for “Most Influential Woman in UK M&A Research” after regular written contributions to newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times, alongside a regular M&A blog on current deals and emerging trends.

The focus of this discussion will not only be on Lisa’s experience as a visible lesbian role model in her industry, but will also draw on parallels and differences to that of our host, Rebecca Matts, Head of Corporate Communications, EMEA, a senior LGBT+ Ally at Nomura. The conversation will also centre around what it means to be a leading female in the Financial Services industry today, regardless of sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

 

All are welcome to join the conversation, and if you have any questions ahead of the event, please email

the LGBT & Allies network.

Date: Wednesday 1^st May 2019

 Location: 6^th Floor Restaurant area, One Angel Lane

Programme:
  18:00    Registration
  18:30    Discussion
  19:15    Drinks and Networking reception

Please click here to register

Last week The London Interbank LGBT Forum proudly sponsored a film at the BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival alongside Accenture, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CME Group, Deloitte, IG, Macquarie, Refinitiv, Societe Generale and State Street. This is a partnership we’ve had for over a decade and we’re excited to be able to support this fantastic event.

The film this year was Papi Chulo (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228538); written and directed by John Butler (he of Handsome Devil fame). It starred Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patino as the leading characters. Matt, who played Sean, is a gay man who is going through a very emotional time after losing his partner. Alejandro, who played Ernesto, is a straight migrant worker who is hired to paint the decking in Sean’s house. A fantastic movie about Sean’s need for someone to care about him, and the tolerance and kindness Ernesto shows him back. Very funny and touching, but also deep and emotional at times that really follows the relationship between the two men.

Following the film the BFI put on a great reception, attended by Interbank firms and the director, John Butler. John was on hand to answer deep and meaningful, and perhaps some slightly less deep and meaningful questions from all of us and did so with great enthusiasm and openness.

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.asp