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Industry news and Information Tue 10 Jun. VersaFi Welcomes New Board Chair and Vice Chair
June 10, 2025 – VersaFi is proud to announce the appointments of Brad Black as our new Chair of the Board of Directors, and Joanne O’Hea as Vice Chair.  Both offer exceptional leadership experience in the finance sector – and as returning board members, step into their new roles with a deep understanding of our […]
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News releases Tue 28 Jan. VersaFi Report: Women Investment Advisors Face Barriers to Advancement, even as Shifting Client Dynamics Fuel Urgency for Change
Women in Wealth report offers recommendations to overcome obstacles Toronto, ON (January 28, 2025).  A new report from VersaFi, the leading non-profit supporting women in the finance sector, reveals that women continue to face significant barriers to advancement in wealth management, a field where men still hold 80-85% of advisory roles. But a dramatic rise […]
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Industry news and Information Tue 16 Oct.
Recap: Fostering inclusion: WCM & GATE Design Sprint
On Oct 1, WCM & Rotman's Institute for Gender and the Economy hosted a challenge that used design thinking and empathy to encourage students to propose solutions focused on influencing structural change in capital markets. This is the recap:
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Event Highlights Thu 20 Sep.
Recap: WCM - A Panel Discussion with The Institute for Gender & the Economy
Why has there not been more progress promoting gender diversity, particularly at the managerial level, in capital markets? To explore this question, in collaboration with WCM, GATE brought together several industry professionals for a panel discussion. Here's what they had to say.
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VersaFi in the news Mon 07 May.
‘Returnships’ help stay-at-home mothers get careers back on track
Toronto’s most prominent returnship is Women in Capital Markets’ Return to Bay Street, which works with a broad group of financial institutions to help women relaunch careers. In four years, the initiative has placed 42 women back in the industry.
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Newsroom Mon 09 Apr.
WCM hosts 100 grade 12 girls at WCM's Job Shadow Day
WCM's Job Shadow Day is a free, day-long event, featuring interactive workshops, networking and mentoring sessions, presentations profiling women with diverse careers in the capital markets, and an afternoon of job shadowing with a mentor who works in the industry. Past Job Shadow Days have been a tremendous success as they have given students a first-hand view of the exciting careers in capital markets.
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VersaFi in the news Sat 10 Mar.
Q&A: What a Bay Street star says it will take to boost women's ranks in finance industry
'We haven't seen the change that we would like to see,' says Camilla Sutton, CEO of Women in Capital Markets. For 25 years, Camilla Sutton has been a mover and a shaker on Bay Street. At the Bank of Nova Scotia, she did everything from equity research to running the bank's global foreign exchange.
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Newsroom Thu 01 Feb.
Bay Street Awards Get Women Back To Work
After extended absences, networking, mentorships help professionals make transition. Back in 2012, Christine Sauriol was chief compliance officer for Canadian operations at Deutsche Bank in Toronto. She also had two small children, and while she enjoyed her job, she was finding the demands of work and home life too much. So Sauriol quit work to devote herself to her family full-time, for five years. But returning to the workforce proved a challenge.
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Leadership Thu 18 Jan.
WCM is Proud to Announce the New President and CEO of WCM
The Board of Directors of Women in Capital Markets (WCM) announced today that Camilla Sutton has been appointed President and CEO, effective January 22, 2018. Most recently, Ms. Sutton was Scotiabank's Global Head of Foreign Exchange.
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Newsroom Wed 06 Dec.
WCM Announces RTBS 2017 Award Recipients
Women in Capital Markets (WCM), a non-profit advocacy organization which promotes the entry and advancement of women into leadership roles in the financial services industry, is pleased to recognize the recipients of the 2017 WCM Return to Bay Street (RTBS) Award.
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