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Many if not all of the women on our ranking would tell you that their success at work has not taken place in a vacuum. It is one piece of their lives – lives that in some cases are filled with children, with aging parents needing assistance or any number of commitments that go along with being a well-rounded citizen.

Irene Dorner, chief executive of HSBC USA, agrees with the frustrations of many bankers that regulators are taking too long to write the rules designed to prevent the next financial crisis.

PayPal’s reported plans to acquire Braintree would give it more than just a payment processor that moves $10 billion a year. If this marriage takes place, it would signal a shift in how payments companies think about technology.

According to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, banks can expect changes to federal reporting requirements for mortgage data.

The GAO should focus on the gross benefit of being "too big to fail", not the benefit net of fines, penalties and regulatory burdens.

Perhaps not surprisingly, a federal government that lives beyond its means tragically encouraged American families to do the same.

To succeed today, financial firms need to encourage female employees to take the right kind of risks, such as trying new innovations to serve clients.

Despite Basel III's shortcomings, I have yet to hear of a better solution than combining risk-weighted assets with a strong leverage ratio. Both require uniform guidelines for banks and disclosure.

There’s no question that that banking industry owes a solid to government policymakers for bailing them out of the crisis. What’s still much in dispute is whether the Dodd-Frank Act and the various other salves that have been applied to stave off another calamity will work as intended.

Moving to an expected-loss framework would be a step in the right direction but entails a great deal of subjectivity, model risk and confusion for investors trying to compare institutions.