Tag Archives: United Kingdom

GBA Case Study: NatWest

GBA Case Study: NatWest

The fifth in the GBA’s Case Study series on best practice banks features Women in Business champion NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The bank has found great success through its ability to leverage partners in the ecosystem to deliver real value to its women clients.

Winning Over Women: A commercial imperative for financial services

Winning Over Women: A commercial imperative for financial services

Kantar’s research in the UK has revealed striking differences in the approach men and women take to managing their money. This report shows how financial service providers in the country are meeting – or failing to meet – the needs of their female customers.

Inspiring Women in Enterprise

Inspiring Women in Enterprise

Inspiring Women in
Enterprise

This is a presentation RBS made to the Small Business Banking Network in February 2013. It features an overview of the size of the Women’s Market in RBS’s UK home as well as a discussion of the bank’s multiple global initiatives to expand and improve service to women. It also addresses RBS’s commitment to workforce and vendor/supplier diversity.

Women in Enterprise: A Different Perspective

Women in Enterprise: A Different Perspective

Women in Enterprise: A
Different Perspective

According to this detailed study of UK women and entrepreneurship produced for RBS by Aston Business School, women do not have any individual or collective entrepreneurial deficit. Instead, this report finds that it is a combination of challenge and choice. Whilst there is clearly a cultural challenge, women also choose to use entrepreneurship differently.

Women in Enterprise: A Different Perspective

Women in Enterprise: A Different Perspective

Women in Enterprise:
A Different Perspective

This Royal Bank of Scotland survey of characteristics of the women’s entrepreneurship market in the UK finds evidence that women-owned firms outperform men’s in many cases. Among other notable findings: Women-led businesses are significantly less likely than men’s to use external sources of financing, even when other factors are controlled.

The Burt Report: Inclusive Support for Women in Enterprise

The Burt Report: Inclusive Support for Women in Enterprise

The Burt Report: Inclusive Support for Women in
Enterprise

This report by Lorely Burt, a member of the British Parliament and Government Ambassador for Women in Enterprise, outlines some of the barriers holding back women entrepreneurs and identifies practical and affordable ways to overcome them. In particular it looks at thinking inclusively and breaking barriers to accessing support.