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By embracing big data, the global research division headed by Browning saw, in one year, a 700% increase in the number of research reports it was able to publish.

Diana Reid has made the advancement of women one of her top priorities at PNC — and has recruited men to support the cause.

Beth Johnson, who has risen over three decades to become chief marketing officer and head of virtual channels at Citizens Bank, has advanced by looking for opportunities rather than maintaining a fixed idea of where to go.

Debbie Crowder heads SunTrust Banks’ most high-profile business line — its branch network — and she takes seriously the position she is in to improve the lives of both employees and the customers and communities they serve.

Offereins led to Discover's payments business to another year of strong growth while setting in motion a bold plan to disrupt the point-of-sale experience.

The way Charlotte McLaughlin sees it, grit is a little like exercise: You only get stronger with practice.

Cathy Bessant, Bank of America's chief operations and technology officer and American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking for 2018, keeps pushing herself, while testing the limits of what the industry can do.

As companies grappled this year with the fallout from the #MeToo movement, Stacey Friedman led an initiative at JPMorgan Chase to make sure employees feel comfortable calling out misbehavior when they see it.

Citi FinTech, Citigroup's innovation lab, has on Piazza's watch continued to roll out groundbreaking technology.

Over the past two and a half years, Ellen Alemany has made several big changes at CIT Group, selling off international business lines and turning the focus to traditional middle-market lending.

Can improv classes help women in tech advance to senior leadership? It's one tactic to attract and retain top female technologists at the nation's largest bank.

Among Sandy Pierce's accomplishments during the past year, the senior executive vice president and regional banking director merged the wealth units of Huntingdon and First Merit, rebranding the business as Huntington Private Bank.

HSBC’s Diane Reyes has spent much of the past year spreading this message to the roughly 10,000 employees she leads: Conduct counts.

When many of Synchrony's employees in Puerto Rico where unable to work after Hurricane Maria struck the island last year, CEO Margaret Keane made sure that their paychecks kept coming.

Thasunda Duckett, the CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, is leading the charge as JPMorgan Chase expands its retail bank.

Even with more than 30 years of experience in banking, Julie Monaco still finds value in the advice a mentor passed on to her as a young, rising executive.

Gunjan Kedia left a big job at State Street for an opportunity to have more direct impact on the lives of individual investors.

As chief risk officer, Helga Houston is responsible for Huntington Bancshares' annual capital plan, as well as maintaining solid credit quality. And her work speaks for itself.

It’s a testament to Duck’s leadership skills that BB&T was able to revamp much of its tech infrastructure in the span of a year. It’s even more impressive that the bank hit its tech targets while its CIO was fighting the battle of her life.

As Monique Herena sees it, financial firms and investors are bypassing huge opportunities by failing to invest in industries that could increase economic opportunity for women across the globe.