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    2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking
    The Most Powerful Women in Banking, No. 6, Wendy Stewart, Bank of America

    Under Stewart's leadership, the bank's commercial banking services gained 8% year-over-year growth in middle-market loans.

    By Glen Fest
    October 7
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    2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance
    The Most Powerful Women in Finance, No. 3, Abigail Johnson, Fidelity Investments

    A longtime focus on alternative investments positioned this asset-management heir to benefit from the recent surge of consumer interest in crypto and a relaxed regulatory regime.

    By Glen Fest
    October 1
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    2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance
    The Most Powerful Women in Finance, No. 6, Adena Friedman, Nasdaq

    In addition to swiping exchange business from rival NYSE, Friedman has diversified with compliance software and anti-financial crime offerings for banks and securities firms.

    By Glen Fest
    October 1
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    Commercial lending
    Cara Younger, BBVA USA | Next 2021

    Younger is an executive director on BBVA's loan syndication team.

    By Glen Fest
    May 5
  • ABS
    California credit union launches first-time auto ABS transaction

    Unify Financial is sponsoring a $300M securitization of prime auto loans. The $3.3 billion-asset institution is only the second CU to sell securities backed by auto loans since the NCUA gave the green light for credit union securitizations nearly four years ago.

    By Glen Fest
    March 12
  • M&A
    Truist sells legacy SunTrust CRE loan servicing platform

    The Charlotte, N.C., company recently closed on a sale of its Cohen Financial platform to SitusAMC.

    By Glen Fest
    September 23
  • CMBS
    Obstacles mount for passage of CMBS relief bill

    A pioneer in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market argues the HOPE Act would bail out savvy investors who don't deserve it. Barclays predicts that kind of attitude will make passage difficult.

    By Glen Fest
    August 14
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    Digital banking
    Using AI to make secondary market for online consumer loans

    Theorem is marketing its first-ever securitization of unsecured loans. It uses machine-learning technology to gauge the risk of default, a growing concern during the pandemic recession.

    By Glen Fest
    August 11
  • Healthcare industry
    Pinnacle Financial affiliate tries its hand at asset securitization

    Bankers Healthcare Group, which is minority owned by the Tennessee company, is moving beyond its primary strategy of selling health care originations to community banks and will start marketing pools of loans to investors.

    By Glen Fest
    July 15
  • CDOs
    Hildene packages community bank debt into new CDO offering

    The class A notes, secured by legacy trust-preferreds and subordinated debt of institutions, carry an investment-grade A1 rating from Moody's. That rating is slightly lower than a prior Hildene CDO, due to elevated pandemic risk to bank profitability.

    By Glen Fest
    July 2
  • Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell
    CLOs
    Fed expands CLO assistance with TALF revision

    But market observers remain unsure whether changes to the $100 billion Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility program will boost CLO investor demand or new-deal issuance, given key restrictions that remain in place.

    By Glen Fest
    May 13
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    GSEs
    Big banks reach $250M settlement in suit alleging GSE bond-price fixing

    A dozen of the nation's largest underwriters were accused of colluding with traders to artificially set prices on the secondary market for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities.

    By Glen Fest
    December 17
  • Thasunda Duckett
    Racial bias
    From rising star to center stage: JPMorgan Chase's Thasunda Duckett

    When she was growing up, Thasunda Duckett's family used crates as furniture and struggled to buy groceries. Now she's become one of JPMorgan Chase's most visible executives, using the lessons of her past to help guide the company's massive branch expansion.

    By Glen Fest
  • Thasunda Duckett, JPMorgan Chase
    Financial inclusion
    Most Powerful Women in Banking: No. 7, JPMorgan Chase's Thasunda Duckett

    Thasunda Duckett, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, has been a key architect of JPMorgan Chase's massive planned branch expansion.

    By Glen Fest
    September 22
  • Amy Carlson, Group Head, Debt Capital Markets at KeyBanc Capital Markets.
    Capital markets
    Most Powerful Women in Finance: No. 24, KeyCorp's Amy Carlson

    After being involved in more than 70 syndicated finance transactions involving noninvestment grade companies, KeyBanc Capital Markets has graduated to lead bookrunner status, under Amy Carlson.

    By Glen Fest
    September 23
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    CDOs
    Small banks pool their subordinated debt to reassure investors

    An affiliate of the private-equity firm Angel Oak is packaging bank-issued sub debt to minimize risk for bondholders. It recently completed its first securitization and has plans to issue two deals a year.

    By Glen Fest
    March 26
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    CLOs
    Federal appeals court rules CLOs exempt from risk retention

    A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the LSTA in its lawsuit seeking to reverse rules requiring CLO managers to hold "skin in the game" under Dodd-Frank.

    By Glen Fest and Allison Bisbey
    February 9
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    Securitization
    Last-minute regs may compound balance-sheet woes of Europe's banks

    The latest draft of EU securitization rules would ban securitization of loans where borrowers certified their own income, raising concerns about banks’ ability to unload roughly $1 trillion of nonperformers.

    By Glen Fest
    August 18
  • Gibran Mahmud, CEO of Trinitas Capital Management.
    CLOs
    How risk retention created opportunity for bank spinoff Trinitas

    The former Triumph Capital Advisors doubled its business by acquiring Doral Bank's CLO assets; Dodd-Frank’s “skin in the game” regs spurred its spinoff as a vehicle of the deep-pocketed Pine Brook.

    By Glen Fest
    July 11
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    CLOs
    LSTA takes risk retention fight to the top

    The Loan Syndications and Trading Association is appealing directly to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to exempt collateralized loan obligation managers from rules requiring "skin in the game" of deals.

    By Glen Fest
    April 13
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23RD ANNUAL THE MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN BANKING

Meet The Most Powerful Women in Banking 2025, our annual ranking of the executives at the pinnacle of the industry.

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