Special Program Root Tag

Remembering Muriel Sievert: an excerpt from Sheri J. Caplan's "Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History"

Wells Fargo, BMO Financial, Huntington Bank and Zions First National Bank saw women's team efforts impact the bottom line.

Jane Fraser's no longer running a global franchise — CitiMortgage is a U.S. business serving 5 million customers — but her track record as a savvy manager of capital, talent development and technological innovation suggests that Citi has fresh ambitions for its home loan division.

Irene Dorner, our No. 1 Most Powerful Woman in Banking in 2012, has seen her stock rise internally at HSBC, having been appointed in February as a group managing director of HSBC Holdings and as a member of the HSBC Group Management Board.

Patti Husic became a CEO when she bought a bank. Now she is rolling out a program to help more women reach the C-suite.

Caryl Athanasiu is studying up to be a corporate director through a new program that hopes to move the needle on women's advancement in the boardroom.

To Janice Fukakusa, diversity is about more than platitudes. It's about solutions—and a willingness to examine the metrics.

When she started in banking, Cece Stewart had little interest in finding a women's network—not that there were many to join. But her priorities at work no longer include blending in with the men.

KeyCorp chairman and CEO Beth Mooney says the new regulatory, reputational and cost pressures on banks aren't going away anytime soon.

Whether newcomers to the power scene or bank industry veterans taking on a new challenge, these women bear keeping an eye on.

Successful. Influential. Innovative. These women are driving results at their institutions, and paving the way for the female talent behind them.

From capital markets to card networks, businesses in the finance sector are benefitting from these women's efforts.

Columbus Data Services, an ATM processor, has completed MasterCard end-to-end certification for all Triton ATM products. As a result, CDS is now processing transactions that comply with the EMV-chip card standard on MasterCard networks.

LevelUp's software development kit (SDK), released last week, allows companies such as Zuppler to add mobile payments without drawing users away from the merchant's branded mobile app.

When Shae Whitney was selling bitters at farmer's markets for a year and a half, she used Square's mobile card reader to accept payments. But when she opened a retail location with her partner in June, she switched to Groupon's iPad-based point of sale system, Breadcrumb.

Infobip is planning to grow its mobile payments and consulting business in the U.S., betting the robust consumer adoption of mobile technology will create a substantial opportunity for carrier billing.

Payment processor Cynergy is getting into the mobile point of sale game, hoping its existing mix of merchant services and mobile technology will capture attention in a crowded market.

MCX, a retailer-driven mobile commerce initiative, is being steadily built upon retailers' desire to control their own customer data and possibly lessen the sting of, or bypass totally, card payment interchange fees. But it must still deliver two key things: a brand and a product.

EVO Payments International has chosen a name to invoke the effect its perpetual software license from IP Commerce Inc. will have for the company — EVO Snap.

Buttercoin wanted to be a Bitcoin exchange, but after being discouraged or outright rejected by over 76 financial institutions, it chose a different path.