Clair Mills is currently, the Chief Operating Officer for the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), within the Bank of England. Clair is responsible for the PRA operations, this includes the delivery of the PRA’s Operating Strategy, Budget, Internal Communications and Investment Portfolio. Other areas of responsibility include managing Data innovation, Regulatory and Business Change, Workforce planning and Diversity and Inclusion.

Clair has over 20 years’ expensive financial services experience, operating at board level and leading successful strategic and transformational change in a number of complex organisations, having started her career in the Building Society and Retail Banking sector, before moving into Operational and Technological Change Management Consultancy.

Clair joined the Financial Services Authority in 2011 to lead the Internal Twin Peaks programme to transition to the PRA and FCA regulatory model, moving across to the Bank of England with the PRA.

In her current role, as well as providing the leadership, management and vision necessary to support the business and to ensure that the proper operational controls are in place. Clair is also responsible for driving a demand-led data approach for the PRA, this includes giving keynote speeches both in the UK and internationally on topics such as Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and how regulators can take advantage of the advances in technology in the work we do. Clair is one of the few senior women in Central Banking and Regulation that work in the sphere.

Alongside this role, Clair is a trustee for two charitable organisations, the Addington Fund and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, where she also sits on the Audit and Risk Committee.

Clair’s home is a working farm in rural Devon, which she shares with her husband and son. Her passion since childhood is horses, together with helping out on the farm, this provides a great way to recharge batteries and is a very different challenge.

00:16: What is your background and how did you come to work in your current role?
08:39: Would you say that your current role is more FinTech, RegTech or SupTech oriented?
11:24: Do you think diversity is a problem in the industry anecdotally?
14:37: Has the lack of diversity affected your actions?
16:37: Why is diversity important especially in managerial positions and finance and technology?
19:34: Did you notice this diversity gap in your education or in entering the workforce or was there a time where it became more apparent to you?
21:20: Are there any steps we as a generation can take to minimise the gap?
25:20: How do you see the role of women in fintech evolving over the next few years?
26:26 What steps can younger generations of women interested in STEM take to be more proactive about creating changes?
28:43: What advice would you give to young women int arrested in finance or technology?

As well as a Senior Economic Advisor and Economist at the FRB Philadelphia, Julapa Jagtiani, is also a Fellow member of the Wharton Financial Institutions Centre, and a Central Bank Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). At the Federal Reserve, Julapa has conducted research and participated in several supervisory policies and implementation projects, including Basel capital requirements for banks, CCAR bank stress testing, and more recently Fintech innovations and regulatory policies. She is a member of the Fintech Subgroup of the Risk Council. Julapa has published influential research articles in top finance journals. Her recent research has focused on issues relating to Fintech innovations, the roles of alternative data and AI/ML in the new financial landscape, small business lending, and various consumer finance issues. Jagtiani has a PhD in finance and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she held the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

00:17: What is your current role and how did you start working in it?
04:45: Would you say that your role is currently more Fintech, Suptech or Regtech oriented?
06:53: What is your background and education and how does this relate to your role and the research you’ve done?
08:51: Do you think that there’s a diversity problem in the industry anecdotal speaking?
10:30: How has the lack of diversity affected your actions subconsciously or subconsciously?
13:21: Why is diversity important, especially in the financial and technology field?
14:37: Would you say that there’s any association between women and their skillsets as it pertains to different roles?
15:47: What steps can his generation take to minimise the gap that you’ve seen?
17:47: What advice would you give to young women interested in finance and technology?

Stacey Cunningham joins host, FNA’s Isabella Ivanov, to discuss Stacey’s role at the New York Stock Exchange and her experience as a woman in a traditionally male-dominated sector.

Stacey Cunningham is President of the NYSE Group and a member of the executive management committee of the parent company, Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). NYSE Group includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest equity exchange and premier venue for capital raising, as well as a diverse range of equity and equity options exchanges.

Prior to being named NYSE President, Cunningham served as NYSE Chief Operating Officer and has held several senior positions at global exchanges. Cunningham has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Catalyst, and the Partnership of New York City.
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With conversations and advice from influential women across the Fintech sector, the FNA Talks mini-series, Women in Fintech, aims to bring awareness to the role women play within the financial industry and the importance of gender diversity within the sector.

00:00:21: Stacey’s Background and Role
00:03:12: Current work focus and day to day role
00:05:44: Is Gender diversity an issue?
00:10:26: How has the lack of diversity influenced your actions?
00:14:00: Importance of diversity in finance
00:16:24: Steps we can take to minimize the gender gap
00:19:12: Role of women in Finance over the next 10 years
00:20:03: What steps can women in the younger generations take?
00:22:11: Final advice for women in STEM

Over the past few years, Slavka has chaired different working groups at the EBA, such as the Network on Sustainable Finance, the Sub-group on Risk Assessment Systems, the mandate to develop the European Supervisory framework and the Subgroup on supervisory Effectiveness and Convergence.

Before joining the EBA, Slavka worked for the National Bank of Slovakia as the Head of Supervisory Division for Banks with Advanced Risk Management Approach, responsible for supervising all large banks in Slovakia.

Slavka holds an MBA in general management from the City University of Seattle and a Master's degree in Mathematics and Physics from the Comenius University Bratislava.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:26 Slavka's Role at EBA and Introduction to EBA
00:02:02: What topics are you focusing on under the Digital Finance work
00:03:31: Education and the background to your current role
00:07:40: Is diversity an issue in the industry anecdotally speaking
00:12:53: Importance of diversity in Technology and finance

For four years, Jekaterina has developed policies for the fintech industry in Lithuania and prior to her appointment as Executive Director of Supervision Services, she worked as a coordinator of Lithuanian Fintech Strategy and Head of the Innovation Committee.

Jekaterina has previously worked as a lawyer across various divisions within the Bank of Lithuania. Responsibilities included insurance, payments, lending, peer-to-peer lending and crowd-funding regulations.

She holds various accolades and was awarded Public Sector Lawyer of the Year for developing the concept of crowdfunding regulation in Lithuania, and for preparing a dwarf law on crowdfunding. Jekaterina has also been acknowledged by Lattice80 as one of the Top 100 Women in Fintech.

With conversations and advice from influential women across the Fintech sector, the FNA Talks miniseries, Women in Fintech & Suptech, aims to bring awareness to the role women play within the financial industry and the importance of gender diversity within the sector.