Weekly Briefing No. 104 Spooky Special Edition

When it comes to gender parity in financial services, Israel, where three of the nation's leading banks are run by women, is doing a better job than the US. That's one takeaway from a post penned by Bank Leumi's Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, which borrows inspiration from actress Gal Gadot. To be sure, there are plenty of Wonder Women today who could and should serve in leadership roles at US financial firms. But rather than focus just on today's sorry state, perhaps another way to promote greater gender diversity is to look at where financial services is going. As the great article furnished to us by Sultan Meghji shows (See below), Deep Learning specialists are in huge demand by Big Tech.