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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 1, Tasnim Ghiawadwala, Citigroup

    Ghiawadwala provides full-scale products and services to midsize companies across the globe. In 2022, that meant delivering "the right solution at the right time" to 14,000 enterprise businesses.

    By Dina Hampton
    Journalist
    September 27
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    Murali was hired in February 2020 as M&T's first-ever chief customer experience officer, a role that was recently expanded to include employee experience.

    By Joel Berg
    September 27
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    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 6, Hope Dmuchowski, First Horizon Corp.

    Dmuchowski is the only female CFO of a large or mid-cap U.S. bank. When she joined First Horizon in late 2021 from Truist, women made up 60% of the executive management team.

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    By Kate Berry
    Reporter
    September 27
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    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 7, Cassandra McKinney, Comerica Bank

    McKinney leads Comerica's retail line of business, directing strategy and execution for its consumer and small-business banking segments nationally, which generates $800 million in revenue.

    By Rebecca Stropoli
    September 27
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    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 8, Kavita Mahtani, HSBC North America Holdings

    Mahtani has worked in the banking industry since 1996, with stints at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citi.

    By Matthew Blake
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 9, Liz Wolverton, Synovus Financial Corp.

    Wolverton, who has been at Synovus since 2003, has made it a point to hire women to senior leadership positions, and the majority of her direct reports are women.

    By Matthew Blake
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 10, Ellen Patterson, Wells Fargo

    As general counsel, Patterson leads roughly 1,300 attorneys and legal professionals across the bank. She was formerly the general counsel at TD Bank Group. 

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    By Claire Williams
    Reporter
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 14, Tanya Sanders, Wells Fargo

    Before being tapped as the head of Wells Fargo's auto division, Sanders was head of its auto transformation team.

    By Polo Rocha
    Staff Writer
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 16, Christina Mohr, Citigroup

    Throughout her distinguished 45-year career, Mohr's customer-centric philosophy has helped Citi's clients prosper even amid the worst of economic downturns.

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    By William Laurent
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 17, Kim-Thu Posnett, Goldman Sachs

    Posnett, who has led more than 400 major tech deals over the last 20 years, is turning her attention to enhancing TMT's global strategy.

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    By William Laurent
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 18, Krista Snelling, Santa Cruz County Bank

    As the CEO of the $1.73 billion asset bank, Snelling has made it her mission to build a team that offers a variety of experiences and viewpoints.

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    By Ingrid Case
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 20, Kristy Fercho, Wells Fargo

     In May, Fercho became full-time head of diverse segments, representation & inclusion, a division of Wells Fargo that was launched in 2020.

    By Matthew Blake
    September 27
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  • Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023
    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 23, Kimberly Moore-Wright, Truist

     Along with being chief teammate officer, Moore-Wright helms enterprise diversity, which aims to bolster race and ethnic diversity in senior leadership.

    By Matthew Blake
    September 27
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    The Most Powerful Women to Watch: No. 25, Wendy Cai-Lee, Piermont Bank

    When Cai-Lee founded Piermont in 2019, she became one of the few CEOs of a women-led bank and the first U.S. bank to be founded by a female from an underrepresented community.

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    By Jordan Stutts
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  • Risk management
    Can big profits be a red flag in banking? Yes, a new study finds.

    Bankers often use return on equity to measure their success, but the banks whose stock prices have suffered most during past crises are the ones with high ROEs, according to new research. The findings add to academic skepticism about high-profit banks.

    By Polo Rocha
    Staff Writer
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  • Litigation
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    The $75 million deal between the megabank and the U.S. Virgin Islands includes various commitments, such as terminating customers' accounts if there is credible information that the accounts are involved in human trafficking.

    By Allissa Kline
    Reporter
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    Long-term business profit is inextricably tied to sustainability. The head of the U.K.'s Chartered Banker Institute explains that financial services leaders have a special responsibility to understand and communicate that fact.

    September 26
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    Chartered Banker Institute
  • Credit unions
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    Georgia United Credit Union is collaborating with the income-verification fintech Argyle to combat submissions of false documents and other crimes.

    By Frank Gargano
    Data Reporter
    September 25
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  • Artificial Intelligence
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    Banks need to — and can — take steps to manage the phenomenon, first defined by a Japanese academic in the 1970s, where artificial intelligence looks, feels or sounds human and gives customers a creepy feeling, experts say.

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    Executive Editor, Technology at Arizent
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  • Litigation
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    With class certification now in hand, the cities that brought the lawsuit have two weeks to outline how other municipalities will be provided notice of the chance to join.

    By Caitlin Devitt
    September 25
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