Women in Banking

What Fifth Third is doing to retain moms

05/24/17

New mothers were bailing out from the Cincinnati bank at twice the rate of other women employees, so it decided to offer a maternity concierge service that would help them with stressful chores.

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Ask Alice — she'll say character is collateral

05/23/17

A Nebraska banking veteran put up $1 million of her own money to create a microlending program that doesn't require business owners to provide traditional collateral.

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Citi's Suni Harford joins UBS; the female entrepreneur penalty

05/18/17

Suni Harford is off to UBS, Nina Fanlo is leaving SoFi, and Shaza Andersen is selling the bank she founded. Also, you should hear how venture capitalists talk about female entrepreneurs.

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Yellen on spurring economic growth; Fidelity’s fintech philosophy

05/11/17

Janet Yellen says our economic growth depends on closing the gender wage gap. Fidelity talks about fostering innovation and Wells Fargo improves its mobile app. Plus, a soccer story.

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Capital One deal aims to streamline data sharing for small business

05/10/17

Through the bank’s new API, small-business customers can feed their bank data into Xero’s cloud accounting technology.

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How Wells’ CMO is repairing the bank’s reputation; Maria Vullo talks tough

05/04/17

Wells Fargo’s chief marketing officer Jamie Moldafsky shared how social media is helping the bank recover from its account-opening crisis; Maria Vullo explains her tough stance on bank crime, despite maintaining a lower profile than her predecessor.

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Wells Fargo’s chief marketer talks navigating a crisis

05/03/17

Part of Jamie Moldafsky's job at Wells these days it taking an earful on social media, but the immediate feedback offers important lessons about the bank's products and efforts to rehab its image.

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Applications for our 2017 ranking now available

05/01/17

The nomination period is now open for the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance rankings, the community impact and lifetime achievement awards, and the top teams.

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Tackling income volatility; New CMO at Citi

04/28/17

JPMorgan Chase’s Colleen Briggs and Fiona Greig are among those working on ways to help a growing segment of consumers with wildly fluctuating incomes. Plus, the women of Wells Fargo’s board and a big promotion at Citi.

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U.S. Bancorp's Cecere begins to shape leadership team

04/26/17

Kate Quinn, one of American Banker's 25 Women to Watch in 2016, was given expanded duties, and consumer banking chief Kent Stone will retire.

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