London’s historically upper and middle-class finance industry told it has to source half its leaders from lower socio-economic backgrounds by 2030

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Companies in London’s famously exclusive financial sector have been issued an ambitious target aimed at boosting class diversity within their walls.

In a new report on Wednesday, the City of London Corporation—the body that oversees the U.K. capital’s financial district—called on Britain’s financial sector to do more to facilitate social mobility.