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Paul Daly BNP Paribas Securities Services
better service for clients but an increased
ing ahead to the next decade, we will have to
sense of value and impact for our people. Of
continue to tap the undoubted talent outside
course, such skills can be transferred outside
of the capital if we are to continue to thrive in
of our organization and, increasingly, outside
this servicing space. I would like to encour-
of our industry. While such a threat will likely
age more talent to join us from across the
be more prevalent in the future, the goal is to
country.
develop our people and support them in
which reduce the need for work to be done at
reaching the highest achievements possible.
a certain time, in a certain place, and – so
It is our responsibility to retain talented
long as we are mindful of maintaining a
people because they want to stay, rather than
strong team culture – I see this trend contin-
because they have nowhere else to go.
uing over the coming years.
Programmes such as Leaders for Tomorrow
We
are
deploying
technologies
are designed to do just that.
Come Together…
C’mon Everybody…
Anyone in their early 20s and thinking about
a career in nancial services undoubtedly has
An area to which BNP Paribas is heavily com-
a broad, rich and rewarding path before
mitted is diversity and inclusion. Of course,
them. The industry is poised, in my view, for a
with over 200,000 employees in 72 countries
period of sustained growth; there is major
and locations, we have a certain amount of
investment in personal development and
diversity built in. But a conscious focus is still
transferrable skills; we are embracing exibil-
required in our industry to ensure that diver-
ity, diversity, and nancial services remains a
sity, be it by gender, race, orientation, back-
stable and well-paid career with a genuine
ground, skills, culture or age is present within
purpose.
all levels of organizations. Otherwise, unconscious
bias
can
not
only
result
in
But where we, as an industry, must come
‘group-think’ mentality, but it can easily
together is in the promotion of these attrac-
smother alternate ways of addressing prob-
tions. We have strived over the past decade in
lems and nurturing evolution. In Ireland, our
maintaining the industry’s reputation – we
industry is doing relatively well in this
must work equally hard to establish its repu-
respect. We are able to attract a skilled inter-
tation as an attractive long-term career
national workforce that displays many of the
option.
attributes described above.
Our industry must continue to build upon
Though the bulk of the BNP Paribas team is
the work already done to inspire the next
based in Dublin, we have had a highly-skilled
generation to want to be the future of the
workforce in Galway for many years and, look-
funds industry in Ireland.
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