Mastercard vice chair: We can’t let Covid crisis hold back female entrepreneurs In Q3 of 2020, venture funding for female founders hit its lowest quarterly total in three years. Whilst the current Covid-19 pandemic stands as one of the greatest disruptors to our way of life in living memory, when we have disruption and crisis we also have opportunity to do more, and to do better. There [...]
A pandemic is no excuse for the return of all-male boards At the 30 Per Cent Club, we never believed in “one and done”. Losing your only female director and reverting to an all-male board is all too easy, as Dominos found out earlier this month. Of course, that’s not the case for Aston Martin, which had two women non-executive directors and a female chair until [...]
DEBATE: As RBS trials a fingerprint bank card, is biometric technology the future for digital payments? As RBS trials a fingerprint bank card, is biometric technology the future for digital payments? YES, says Ann Cairns, vice chairman of Mastercard. As we shift towards using digital services, and the need to protect our data becomes ever more critical, the use of passwords is woefully outdated. Many people simply have more passwords than [...]
