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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.

Last January, Discover and Facebook became friends. In a partnership put together by Diane Offereins' team in payment services, Discover teamed up with the social media network to roll out the Facebook Card, a prepaid product that can be used to send gifts to friends via their Facebook profile.

Since taking over in 2010 as chief of Charles Schwab's investment management division, Marie Chandoha has overseen an ETF business that has grown from $2.7 billion in assets under management to $12 billion as of this May.

Much of the concern over controversial Dodd-Frank rule "1073" has been allayed by the work of wholesale service providers like Citi's Institutional Clients Group and its head of public sector and bank services, Julie Monaco.

In 1994 Jennifer Steans and her father co-founded Financial Investments Corp. to handle the family's substantial fortune and to explore bank investment opportunities that led to ownership stakes in both USAmeriBank in Florida and Cole Taylor Bank in Chicago.

One of Carrie Tolstedt's many challenges these days is making sure customers who interact with Wells Fargo have a more positive and more personalized experience. It's no small feat, but so far, so good.

Pamela Joseph is the highest-ranking woman at U.S. Bancorp and leads business lines that consistently generate about a quarter of the company's revenue and more than a third of its fee income each year.

In her role overseeing the massive consumer lending operations at Wells Fargo, Avid Modjtabai is at the forefront of the flux rippling through the industry.

"I tell my team today-you always need to be 'on'," says Citigroup's Cece Stewart, and it is, judging by the metrics Stewart has amassed since joining Citi in January 2011. She has presided over growth in average deposits, average loans, investment sales and mortgage originations.

Huntington added more than a branch a week last year. The architect of the expansion, Mary Navarro, helped increase customer households last year by 12 percent, more than three times the industry average and more than Huntington grew in the three previous years combined.

From the TNS Choice Award for direct banking to Money Magazine ranking it as the best online bank for a second straight year, the accolades for Ally Bank continue to pile up. Barbara Yastine rightfully claims some credit.