News Topic: Women in Banking

A who’s who of banking industry executives turned out for the annual celebration of the Most Powerful Women. Pam Joseph won’t be the next CEO of TSYS after all, but Jamie Dimon seems to be setting JPMorgan Chase up for a female CEO. Does Marianne Lake have ... Read full article

Want a strong team? This is what Mary Navarro said she has learned about creating one in her 42-year banking career. Navarro, who recently retired from Huntington, accepted a Lifetime Achievement award at the Most Powerful Women in Banking gala Thursday ... Read full article

Executives from across the industry celebrated gender diversity Thursday evening at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance dinner in New York. ... Read full article

Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management and American Banker’s Most Powerful Woman in Finance, shared a funny story about her kids and her boss, Jamie Dimon, at the Most Powerful Women in Banking dinner.   ... Read full article

Linda Verba, head of service strategy at TD Bank and winner of a lifetime achievement award at the Most Powerful Women in Banking dinner Thursday, said that diversity can not just be a buzzword. ... Read full article

Cathy Bessant, the winner of American Banker's most powerful woman in banking, talks about the "nobility" of banking and how the business helps to change people's lives. ... Read full article

JPMorgan's Mary Callahan Erdoes outlines the secret to motivating employees that she learned from businessman Jack Ma. ... Read full article

Geena Davis told a group of female bankers on Thursday that women are rarely seen in anything but supporting roles. ... Read full article

American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance gathered Wednesday to celebrate honorees and to mix and mingle over cocktails at Milk Studios, with a panoramic view over Manhattan. ... Read full article

Cynthia Blankenship, an executive at Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas, has been a regular in Washington for years fighting for regulatory changes. She is encouraging other bankers to do likewise. ... Read full article

Verba's two-decade career at one of the East Coast's fastest-growing banks began with an old-fashioned letter to a local bank when she was in her late 40s and an epiphany about work-life balance. ... Read full article

How Ellen Alemany, CIT's CEO, is enforcing a set of core behaviors at the company. One is straight talk. ... Read full article

Kate Quinn has raised U.S. Bancorp's profile by emphasizing culture above all else. ... Read full article

Researchers in Sweden found that venture capitalists often use unflattering language to describe women entrepreneurs. That could explain why women’s applications for funding were rejected more frequently than men’s. ... Read full article

Let others debate the meaning of the Fearless Girl statue. To State Street's Hannah Grove, its message to the banking industry was simple: reduce complexity for the average customer and create a more welcoming workplace for all. ... Read full article

The film industry is painting an ugly picture of what life is like inside banks, and that could hurt banks' recruitment efforts. ... Read full article

Citi’s innovation leader, Yolande Piazza, envisions reinventing the way the bank interacts with customers, so that it is part of their daily lives — always present, always intuitively easy and always helpful. ... Read full article

Wondering who is new to the rankings of the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance? Here’s an overview of the changes. Plus we recap all of the stories so far, including the top team winners, a feature on CIT Group’s Ellen Alemany, and New York ... Read full article