HSBC UK

We joined forces with the exciting literary imprint launched by Stormzy and Penguin Random House UK, to create a live-streamed school event series on financial wellbeing and entrepreneurialism.

We were named as a Top 10 Employer in the 2021 UK Ethnicity Awards.

HSBC’s UK ERG Embrace aims to inspire and support our minority ethnic colleagues and their allies to perform to the best of their abilities in an open, inclusive and supportive environment. We work together with senior leaders to engage and influence HSBC policy and culture from the top down, offering guidance and education to address different ethnicity biases that affect our colleagues. Through activities and events, Embrace also supports the professional development of our members, providing them with mentoring and career development opportunities. We also partner with HSBC’s various lines of business to embed ethnicity initiatives and promote inclusion.

We work together with senior leaders to engage and influence HSBC policy and culture from the top down, offering guidance and education to address different ethnicity biases that affect our colleagues. Through activities and events, Embrace also supports the professional development of our members, providing them with mentoring and career development opportunities. We also partner with HSBC’s various lines of business to embed ethnicity initiatives and promote inclusion. The UK Black Business Show brought together some of the best Black businesses in the country through exhibitions, workshops, interactive panels, and seminars.

Helping remove barriers to higher education as part of our wider commitment to support racial equality in the UK.

We donated £350,000 in The Princes Trust Enterprise Programme – with the aim of empowering over 270 aspiring Black entrepreneurs to explore self-employment.

https://www.hsbc.com/who-we-are/our-people-and-communities/inclusion/our-diversity-data

On the back of the Ethnicity Commitments published a few months before, HSBC UK launches the Accelerating into Leadership programme to help Black and minority ethnic colleagues to develop and take on more senior roles.

HSBC makes commitment to diversify the ethnicity of senior leaders and sets a target to double the number of Black colleagues in senior leadership positions by 2025.

Within this we made 5 key commitments, which are: ▪ Appoint an Executive Sponsor for race ▪ Capture ethnicity data and publicise progress ▪ Commit at board level to zero tolerance of harassment and bullying ▪ Make clear that supporting equality in the workplace is the responsibility of all leaders and managers ▪ Take action that supports ethnic minority career progression.

Our Embrace network, now home to over 2,000 members, brings together colleagues with shared characteristics and interests from different ethnic minorities and cultural backgrounds. Allowing them to champion education and awareness programmes, facilitate open discussion on workplace improvements and actively partner with our senior leadership on ways we can improve and drive positive impact.

We've made some great strides towards becoming a truly inclusive organisation, but we know we aren't yet diverse enough at all levels. So we'll continue to take action, to help us innovate and grow in a sustainable way. That’s why we’re looking to double the population of HSBC’s Senior Black Leaders as at 31 December 2020 by 2025, and provide targeted development planning for those colleagues.