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Barclays and HSBC on track in FTSE’s slow march to end all-white boards

Almost a third of companies in the UK's leading index of companies still have all-white boards, according to update of the Parker Review

Barclays and HSBC on track in FTSE’s slow march to end all-white boards
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Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered are among the FTSE 100 companies meeting government-backed board diversity targets — but progress remains slow in getting more ethnic representation to the top of UK business.

According to the latest update on the Parker Review — which sets UK blue-chips the target of having at least one ethnically diverse board member by 2021 — 31 of FTSE 100 companies still have all-white boards.

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