Women in Banking

Jovita Carranza confirmed as SBA administrator after nine-month delay

01/07/20

The agency's new leader began her career as a part-time night-shift package handler for UPS in Chicago.

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BankMobile promotes Luvleen Sidhu to CEO

01/07/20

Sidhu, who co-founded the digital-only unit of Customers Bancorp, replaces her father, Jay, who will remain executive chairman. The bank is also rolling out a new service that allows direct-deposit to customers to access their paychecks two days before they are paid.

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Reputation rehab job one for Eagle Bancorp's new chief

12/30/19

Susan Riel succeeded Ronald Paul as CEO of the Maryland bank shortly before questions surfaced about credit quality and lending practices.

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BBVA names new CEO of Texas Border, Gulf Coast markets

12/23/19

BBVA USA said Monday that Susana Valencia will retain her job as Laredo City president while also overseeing commercial banking operations in its Texas border and Gulf Coast markets.

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Wells Fargo adds ex-Comerica CFO in latest outside hire

12/13/19

Muneera Carr, who will become the San Francisco bank's controller on Jan. 6, is the newest addition to a team being assembled by CEO Charlie Scharf.

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Citizens names consumer banking, customer experience chiefs

12/10/19

Brendan Coughlin will succeed Brad Conner as head of consumer banking, and Beth Johnson will be the bank's first chief experience officer.

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To ignore Gen Z is ‘to flirt with irrelevance’: Wells Fargo exec

12/09/19

Businesses need to shift focus away from millennials and toward the next age group, which is expected to be so demanding that business processes will have to be overhauled, says Julia Carreon, the bank's managing director of digital and fiduciary operations.

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Bank of America touts diverse staff in new trove of employee statistics

11/21/19

Bank of America says in a 23-page report that it has boosted the percentage of women and people of color among senior management and hired thousands of people from low- and moderate-income communities.

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Wells Fargo's Modjtabai to exit as Scharf shapes leadership

11/21/19

Avid Modjtabai, who runs Wells Fargo's payments and technology innovation unit, is leaving the firm as new Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf continues to shake up top management.

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Ignoring women costs the financial industry $700 billion a year

11/11/19

The male-dominated finance industry is missing out on more than $700 billion a year in revenue by failing to listen to or tailor products for women, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman.

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