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Impact, intellect, performance, perseverance: 25 women who are reshaping the banking industry. Here are the rankings 6-10.

Impact, intellect, performance, perseverance: 25 women who are reshaping the banking industry. Here are the rankings 11-15.

Impact, intellect, performance, perseverance: 25 women who are reshaping the banking industry. Here are the rankings 16-20.

Impact, intellect, performance, perseverance: 25 women who are reshaping the banking industry. Here are the rankings 21-25.

Irene Dorner, Sallie Krawcheck, Karen Peetz and Nicole Arnaboldi discuss the importance of bringing more women through the pipeline at financial services companies.

Irene Dorner, the CEO of HSBC USA and No. 1 in our ranking, discusses her career, the awakening she had about her influence and the power of being authentic.

Topping this year's list of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking are Irene Dorner, Beth Mooney, Karen Peetz, Ellen Alemany and Pamela Joseph.

These leaders, some just emerging and others vets in new roles, are women worth keeping an eye on in the banking and finance sectors. Avid Modjtabai tops this year's list, with Sallie Krawcheck right behind.

Across asset management, investment banking, capital markets and cards, these finance executives are helping to create a path to parity for women in a traditionally male-dominated field.

When FirstMerit agreed to buy Citizens Republic this month, it capped Cathleen Nash's efforts to rebound from recession in hard-hit Michigan.

Heidi Miller, the former president of JPMorgan Chase's international businesses, says that megabanks have to do a better job of defending themselves — and acknowledges that some banks run the risk of becoming too big.

The payments services chief talks about the purpose of the Women Leaders in Action network, and the group's work with schools in Africa.

Get ready. Our lists of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking, the 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance and the 25 Women to Watch are nearly here.

Scotiabank's Alberta G. Cefis discusses how women hold the key to advancing their own careers and delivering a fresh leadership approach to the financial services industry.

Women Leaders in Action, a leadership development group within U.S. Bancorp's payment services business, shares photos from Kenya, where the group is helping to support students at two schools.

Another perspective gets injected into the debate over work-life balance.

The number of women serving as bank directors has hardly changed in the past decade and this year's annual meetings are doing little to move the needle.

Why is Beth Mooney the only female CEO of a top 50 bank in the U.S.? And what is your institution doing to help remedy the gender inequality in financial services?