With two weeks to go before the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, which triggered a tremendous outpouring of grief and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement across the world, the finance sector is still coming to terms with its own diversity issues.
At a Barron’s Live-Financial News event unpicking whether Wall Street has a diversity problem, Penny Sukhraj caught up with Ebony A Thomas, Bank of America’s senior vice-president for ESG, and J Derek Penn, the author of Diary of a Black Man on Wall Street.
