Organization Root Tag

The startup, Drum, provides a marketplace for small businesses to offer promotions to influencers who can help them drum up business.

Jelena McWilliams knows the value of the FDIC’s role in a way most other Americans do not. Now she's in charge as it grapples with difficult questions and sets out to reshape the industry.

Fair Isaac Corp. has added a platform alongside its 25-year-old FICO Falcon fraud-detection solution for credit and debit cards that aims to ferret out risky and fraudulent real-time payments.

Two months after a successful test to connect banks using the Global Payments Innovation service to faster payments rails in Singapore, Swift is launching a new service to connect with other domestic real-time payments systems.

The industry is waiting to see if banks will get the same no-cost land leases on military bases that credit unions currently enjoy.

Only three of the world's 10 biggest banks joined the coalition of 130 global financial firms in agreeing to align their business with international efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues.

All of the GOP members on the House Financial Services Committee called on the regulator to consider "administrative decisions" to offset the impact of the 2015 decision.

When the payments industry's decision makers gathered in Los Angeles at SourceMedia's annual PayThink conference, certain topics dominated the discussion.

Fintechs that simply offer cosmetic upgrades to the cumbersome American banking system won't survive.

Jes Staley is turning away from his ambition to build a Barclays Plc-branded digital consumer bank in the U.S.

The revised trading rule is seen as a credit negative for the banking industry.

Building capital will help the mortgage agencies move toward the private sector; Virtual Wellness needs to assure banks it's safe to do business with them.

Zions Bancorp. is taking a different approach to its diversity efforts by moving ownership for initiatives out to its field offices.

Since joining U.S. Bancorp in 2007, Leslie Godridge has been largely responsible for building its corporate bank from a regional operation to a nationwide powerhouse.

Myers has thrived as head of global capital equity markets by heeding the leadership advice of her mentor, the late Jimmy Lee: Focus on the people she'd take with her if she ever left J.P. Morgan to start her own firm.

Early in her career, Strybel took a leap of faith when she followed her mentor's guidance and took a role outside her wheelhouse. It paid off, and it's a lesson she shares with younger bankers as part of her mission to pay it forward.

The Women to Watch

"You can get a lot done if you don't care who gets the credit," Stevens is fond of saying. Judging by the pace of innovation at the $169 billion-asset Fifth Third, that team-first message is clearly resonating.

Marla Willner has returned to TD Bank to be its head of corporate and specialty banking, and she has a plan for building the unit she leads into a national powerhouse.

Ellen Patterson, the general counsel at TD Bank Group, has spearheaded a program across the Toronto company's footprint that aims to reinforce the idea that men need to be a big part of any organization's diversity and inclusion efforts.