The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Yie-Hsin Hung will join State Street Global Advisors in December, succeeding Cyrus Taraporevala, who has been CEO since 2016. The hiring comes as the Boston-based custody bank continues to await regulatory approval for its acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman's investor services division.

Europe's biggest banks are falling behind on their promises to promote more women, at least when measured by the very top jobs. 

After naming a new CEO in March, the San Francisco bank has filled the second of two leadership voids created by executive resignations at the start of the year.

Dermot McDonogh will be the custody bank's chief financial officer, as incoming CEO Robin Vince starts making his mark. The two each spent more than two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Hafize Gaye Erkan, whose surprise departure from First Republic Bank disrupted the lender’s succession plans earlier this year, will become chief executive officer of Greystone as the closely held commercial-property lender expands into wealth management and private banking.