Special Program Root Tag

Tracy Grooms, formerly of Bank of America, did not stay retired long. Queens University has hired her to teach undergraduates about banking at its business school, which is named after the most famous B of A exec of all.

Sandberg's book has highlighted the need for both men and women to sponsor high potential women and encourage them to take a seat at the table.

The year's Most Powerful Women in Banking special report contains good news and bad. On the positive side, women are making progress in the upper reaches of banking and finance. The trouble is that they still have a long way to go before achieving gender equality. The reasons are complex.

After 18 months running a Fifth Third affiliate bank in the upper Midwest, Mary Tuuk is back at the company's Cincinnati headquarters, where she worked as chief risk officer from 2007 to 2011.

If investors think emerging markets are the obvious go-to for yield and long-term growth, Joyce Chang has some sobering news for them.

I hope we can all encourage our younger coworkers, our daughters and granddaughters, to see these opportunities and be ready to ascend to upper level management positions.

BankThink kicks off a new series in conjunction with American Banker Magazine’s annual Most Powerful Women in Banking issue.

Southwestern Advantage, a multi-level marketing company with a model similar to Avon or Amway, relies on college students to sell its educational materials — raising potential risk issues as a young and inexperienced sales force is tasked with protecting payment details.

Charlotte McLaughlin turned her family demands into a productivity driver at work. That helped get her to a point where she can now help more women scale the ladder.

How today's female executives are clearing roadblocks to the executive suite.

KeyCorp chairman and CEO Beth Mooney on the extra obligation she feels to help bring more women into leadership positions.

KeyCorp chairman and CEO Beth Mooney discusses the advantages of the regional banking model, the U.S. economic picture and how banks are coping with it.

If you carved out the Global Technology and Operations division from Bank of America, it would be one of the largest tech organizations in the world. Cathy Bessant leads this far-flung force of nearly 100,000 employees and contractors, overseeing all of the technology BofA uses to serve customers in 35 countries.

In the evolving payments landscape, no bank is an island. So Diane Reyes is making deeper engagement with critical business partners a primary focus as head of HSBC Payments and Cash Management.

Strategic collaboration is one of Leslie Godridge's strong suits. An example of this is a meeting she convened last year that was the most in-depth planning session of its kind since the formation of the National Corporate and Institutional Banking unit in 2007, and the results of it continue to play out.

Columbia Banking System's acquisition of the $2.4 billion-asset West Coast Bancorp is the latest of several deals Melanie Dressel has orchestrated over the past few years to fuel growth, as her community bank steadily progresses toward its goal of being more of a regional player in the Northwest.

She's only been CEO of Chase Card Services since last summer, but Eileen Serra started writing the playbook for the job years ago.

BB&T has gotten a good return on its investment in Donna Goodrich, who began her career in the bank's leadership development program in 1985.

In a little over two years, Nancy Shanik has completely upended RBS Citizens' risk organization — just as outgoing CEO Ellen Alemany hoped she would.

In 2012, Barb Godin went beyond the scope of the average chief credit officer to spearhead implementation of one of Regions Financial's most significant technology investments to date, and her focus on improving credit quality helped Regions clear several important hurdles.