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Yasmin Bates-Brown planted the seeds for Harris Bank's thriving community-development lending program.

She built a wealth-management powerhouse, but within U.S. Bancorp Diane Thormodsgard will best be remembered as a role model.

Women favor as a goal diversity at regulatory agencies and the financial institutions they oversee, but some question whether the government should be involved.

Now leaders themselves, proteges of Harris CEO Ellen Costello hand down her mentoring lessons.

HSBC Holdings has operations in 88 countries and its stated mission is to help its commercial and high-net-worth customers do business in all of them.

Team spirit is a competitive advantage that's hard to quantify, but MetLife COO Marion McDougall knows just how much of a difference it can make.

Senior vice president Julie Cornelius built her career at U.S. Bancorp mastering the art of assimilation.

While diversity programs are important, they don't amount to much if they don't produce results, and few financial firms boast as many women in key roles as Wells Fargo.

Some are in new jobs, some have new responsibilities, but all of these 25 women are tackling the industry's challenges head on-and in the process reshaping its future.

The financial crisis hurt a lot of people's good reputations. Not Heidi Miller's.

When Diane Reyes took over Citigroup's global payments business in July 2009, the group was already in a crisis mode.

UnionBanCal's JoAnn Bourne learned how to play chess with her dad at age six, and now relates the game to her work.

CitiFinancial North America is searching for a new name, a new owner and a new funding model. But even with so much in flux, Mary McDowell has never been surer of her goals.

Cathy Bessant keeps a yellow sticky note attached to her phone asking her what she has done each day to generate revenue, connect with a colleague and communicate with a customer.

In Deborah McWhinney's view, much of the financial upheaval can be traced to a single trend: Bankers stopped getting to know their customers.

Every year around the Fourth of July, Mary Navarro picks one of Huntington Bancshare's 600 branches and goes to work as a teller for the day.

To Leslie Andersen, there is not much difference between serving major corporations and small businesses.

Suzanne Hammett, Capital One's chief risk officer, has played a major role in integrating the commercial lending businesses of the three regional banks Cap One acquired in the past five years.

Diana Starcher is all for maintaining balance in life, but she says complete immersion in work can be satisfying sometimes.

U.S. Bank's Leslie Godridge spent the last three years zigging while her competitors were zagging.