DEI Resources for the Financial Industry

You Play A Key Role

Washington's financial industry plays a key role in increasing financial well-being and closing wealth gaps. Some of these efforts include:

• Growing diversity in our workforce and all levels of leadership and growing efforts toward greater representation of diverse individuals in the financial industry.
• Working with impacted communities to identify opportunities to address wealth disparities in communities of color and other underserved groups in Washington State.
• Improving language access and intentional inclusion of immigrant and refugee communities.

Learn More

• Why Invest in Wealth Equity?
  There are many reasons to invest in under-resourced communities.
• DEI Self-Assessment for Financial Institutions
  Find tools and resources to strengthen your DEI efforts.
• Upcoming DEI Events
  Join our upcoming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion events.

Request a DEI Presentation

DFI’s DEI Director is available to present for your financial institution or at upcoming events. Presentations cover topics like:

• DEI initiatives
• The wealth gap
• Community feedback
• Financial institution models for DEI

Email erin.klika@dfi.wa.gov for more information.

Engage Your Regulator

We care about diversity, equity, inclusion, and narrowing the wealth gap.

• Are you doing something new and innovative?
• Are you training staff to grow connections with customers and members?
• Do you have a product to better meet the needs of our communities?
• Do you have questions about risk and compliance?

Please reach out to DFI DEI Director, Erin Klika, at erin.klika@dfi.wa.gov and share what you are doing. If you have a regulatory question, we will help you connect with the right person.

Why engage DFI?

• We might be able to connect you with government programs that are funding models that address the wealth gap.
• We invite financial services institutions to share what is working and co-learn with community, industry, and government.
• We care about serving everyone who calls Washington home and will work with you to meet regulatory requirements under DFI.
• We partner with other agencies and work together to address challenges and opportunities.