Most Powerful Women in Finance 2023

A native of Baltimore, Friedman grew up with finance: Her father, David Testa, was chief investment officer at financial advisory firm T. Rowe Price.

In early 2023, UBS took over the ailing Credit Suisse, and Harford has been hard at work integrating Credit Suisse's asset management business.

As chief product officer, Milrod now oversees a team of more than 500 professionals who provide a diverse range of services and products to institutional investors around the globe.

 In perhaps the most high-profile deal Zapparoli advised upon, BofA Securities was joint bookrunner and global coordinator of Porsche's initial public offering last October.

JPMorgan appointed Heitsenrether as its first chief data and analytics officer in June, leading the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across the bank's operations.

Pennington has been with Edward Jones since 2000. She has held such positions as financial advisor; principal, branch and region development and principal, client strategies group before being named managing partner.

In the past year, Browning's group started the Bank of America Institute, an independent think tank that's not part of the research department.

Kedia is in charge of roughly half of Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank's total deposits and about half of the lender's average loan balances. Her team includes 11,100 employees.