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Britain’s first gay banking chief executive wants to shake up finance

As the first openly gay chief executive of a British bank, Anthony Watson says he has one very personal goal – to shake up the country’s “pale, male, stale and straight” financial sector. “We want to change the face of banking,” said Watson, 45, who is also founder of the Bank of London, a clearing bank for business payments that aims to take on clients in mid-2022. “This is a personal thing that’s very important to me,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call from his New…

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