The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Anne Clarke Wolff, a longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree, on why she left big banking to start her own investment bank advisory firm.

The British lender has named the company veteran its global head of leveraged finance as it seeks to capture more business from the giants of private equity. 

The longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree looks back on her 40-year career and the power of persistence.

Fraser and Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason are under pressure to show that, after repeated attempts by predecessors to restore investors' faith in the New York-based company following the 2008 global financial crisis, this time will be different.

Truist Financial completes the sale of its remaining stake in Truist Insurance Holdings; City National Bank has hired Rick Bechtel as executive vice president and head of mortgage and residential lending; Associated Bank names Chun Schiros as its first chief analytics officer; and more in the weekly banking news roundup.

Sean Brown is the CEO and president of YCharts, an investment research platform.

In his nearly 30-year career, his focus has been on financial services and software. He has been an executive at several startups, private equity-backed firms and public companies. He is a Notre Dame and Stanford University graduate.

Emma Brown is CFO at Medius, an AP automation and spend management solutions provider.

Max Levchin, CEO of the buy now/pay later lender, said recent tests show young adults prefer interacting with intelligent chatbots over phone-based agents, but the company doesn't foresee major cost savings from generative AI for a few more years.

Anca Vintu is a compensation and. benefits specialist and partner at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders.