How PC brigade has infiltrated our banks

The Prudential Regulation Authority, an arm of the Bank of England which polices financial firms, said last year that it wanted to ‘remove gendered language’

It ditched the title ‘chairman’ in favour of the ‘chair’ and stopped using ‘his’ and ‘her’ when referring to senior figures in reports

HSBC allows users to have non-gender specific titles such as Mx or Misc rather than Mr or Mrs

Royal Bank of Scotland stopped asking customers for their mother’s maiden name as a security question in 2016, so people with same-sex parents were not excluded

In 2015, Barclays was criticised for failing to mention Christmas in signs about its festive opening times

Insurance market Lloyd’s of London has banned lunchtime drinking to create a more ‘modern’ workplace culture