The Most Powerful Women in Banking
Honorees gathered at Tiffany's Landmark building in New York City, where American Banker interviewed them about the industry's trajectory and leadership lessons they've learned in their careers.
Stephanie Novosel, head of commercial banking at PNC Bank, faced one particularly significant challenge last year — helping with the acquisition of BBVA's American banking business.
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Olga Hoff's proudest accomplishment in the past year? She created a small-business diversity banking program at Zions.
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How can empathy and understanding translate into banking? In about 600 ways, according to M&T Bank's Aarthi Murali.
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When Priscilla Sims Brown took over as head of Amalgamated Bank, she made her goals clear. The company would increase profits and market share. Accomplishing those aims would, in turn, expand the bank's voice on social issues.
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For years, Sound Community Bank in Seattle organized its workforce around bank branches and specialists for retail lending, commercial banking and home mortgage. But in the last year, "we threw all that out the window," said Laura Lee Stewart.
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Julieann Thurlow is working to ensure that smaller institutions don't get left behind as the megabanks make better use of new technology.
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