Diversity improves but it's still a man's world at top of Europe's banks

25 biggest banks by assets have seen 22 changes in chief executive and chair over the past two years: Twenty-one of those 22 jobs went to men.

Women remain rare visitors to the highest echelons of European banks.

The 25 biggest banks by assets have seen 22 changes in chief executive and chair over the past two years, including announcements of upcoming appointments, according to a Reuters review of senior industry roles. Twenty-one of those 22 jobs went to men.

Only one lender - Britain's NatWest - has a female CEO, while two - Spain's Santander and the Netherlands' Rabobank - have a woman chairing their governing boards. 

"Tim goes away, so who looks like Tim?" said Claire Godding, the former long-time head of diversity for BNP Paribas in Belgium,