Banking Standards Board

The Banking Standards Board (BSB) is a body established in April 2015 in the United Kingdom, to promote good practice among banks and building societies. The original idea for the body came from the work of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards [1] and the subsequent Lambert Review,[2] which called for a new type of organisation, different from traditional regulators, that would look at banking standards, culture and the root causes of poor behaviour.

Governance

The organisation is funded by the banks, but acts independently of them through its mission and a board composed primarily of non-bankers.[3] The first chair of the BSB was Dame Colette Bowe. She was appointed by a selection committee chaired by the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney. She was followed as chair by Susan Rice (banker) in 2019.[4] Sir Brendan Barber serves as vice-chair, and Alison Cottrell is the CEO of the organisation.

The work of the BSB

The BSB conducts annual assessments of culture and behaviour at UK banks and building societies, and reports publicly on the state of the sector in its annual reports.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The organisation's approach to assessing culture combines methods from economics, behavioural science, data science and ethnography,[11][12][5] and has been described by Gillian Tett as "anthropologists with big data trying to use ways to track what bankers are doing, what they're feeling, to work out whether they have a good culture or not".[13]

The BSB's work has highlighted gaps between ethical behaviour and banking activities, [14] pressure and stress in the banking system, [15][16] and concerns with speaking up. [15] [17] Beyond the UK banking sector, elements of the BSB's culture assessments have also been conducted for Irish banks,[18] at the New York Federal Reserve [19] and in insurance markets.[20][21]

Criticism

Members of the Treasury Committee in examining the work of the BSB in 2018 criticised the slow progress made on fixing the UK's banking culture.[22][23]

References
  1. "Banking Commission publishes report on changing banking for good - News from Parliament". UK Parliament.
  2. "Banking Standards (Lambert Review)" (PDF).
  3. "Meet the board".
  4. "Dame Susan Rice appointed as Chair of the Banking Standards Board". July 17, 2019.
  5. "Annual Review 2018/2019 Chairman's Foreword".
  6. "Annual Review 2018/2019 Explained". April 1, 2019.
  7. "Annual Review 2017/2018".
  8. "Annual Review Assessment Explained". April 16, 2018.
  9. "Annual Review 2016/2017".
  10. "Taking the measure of good corporate culture; Financial Times". www.ft.com.
  11. "#AS2018 C Moore & Q Zaman, How the BSB assesses 'fuzzy' human behaviour & culture concepts at banks" – via www.youtube.com.
  12. (PDF) https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/governance-and-culture-reform/Summary-of-Workshop.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. "Gillian Tett asks if banking culture has really changed" – via www.ft.com.
  14. "City bankers battle with quandary of ethics versus career; Financial Times". www.ft.com.
  15. "A quarter of UK bankers say their job is bad for their health; Financial Times". www.ft.com.
  16. "Knowledge-sharing workshop: Wellbeing and Resilience (Panel video: Qamar Zaman)". July 18, 2018.
  17. "Speaking up: small steps to big changes". FCA Insight. July 23, 2019.
  18. "Reports". Irish Banking Culture Board.
  19. "Banking Culture: The Path Ahead - FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK". www.newyorkfed.org.
  20. Kollewe, Julia (September 24, 2019). "Lloyd's of London: nearly 500 workers suffered or saw sexual harassment in past year" – via www.theguardian.com.
  21. "Lloyd's reveals depth of sexual harassment culture". September 24, 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  22. "Work of the Banking Standards Board inquiry". UK Parliament.
  23. correspondent, Kalyeena Makortoff Banking (November 13, 2018). "Overhaul of UK's poor banking culture is slow, admits standards chair" – via www.theguardian.com.
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