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As group executive for international business at Visa, Elizabeth Buse tackles the challenge of growing debit in the emerging markets she oversees.

Susan Ehrlich, the president os Sears Financial Services, has a habit of putting new twists on old consumer-finance concepts.

Dominique Senequier has been building a private-equity empire in Paris for over a decade as CEO of AXA Private Equity, and Americans are finally taking notice.

Margaret Keane, who heads GE Capital's retail consumer finance arm, has worked to ensure good communication with customers to keep them on board.

Carla Brooks is often the only woman in the room. But she considers it her responsibility to help more women break into the male-dominated financial industry.

After Martina Hund-Mejean was hired in 2007, one of her many initiatives at MasterCard included starting up a job rotation program among the 700 people in her department.

Balancing risk and reward is what Suzanne Shank does in her business all the time. So when the financial crisis heightened both sides of that equation considerably, Shank didn't flinch.

When an ultra-high-net-worth family walks into the office of Maria Elena Lagomasino for the first time, she flashes a deck of cards containing what she calls the "Keeps Me Awake at Night" questions.

Countless leaders in the world of finance espouse the cause of financial literacy. But none has done more about it than Muriel Siebert.

With a recession and regulatory changes at home, Diane Offereins, Discover Financial Services' head of payments, looked overseas for opportunity.

There are more women than ever on boards of directors, but there's still a long way to go.

In the few interviews she grants, Fidelity Investments' Abigail Johnson is invariably discreet on the question of whether she wants to one day run the firm founded by her grandfather.

Irene Dorner might not be running the U.S. banking operations of HSBC Holdings today if it hadn't been for "an intervention" from a top corporate executive.

Word that Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren won't be teaching her contract law class fueled rumors she will be nominated as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

As the Federal Reserve Board and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency take over supervision of thrifts and their holding companies, savings and loans have grown increasingly scared about a possible crackdown on their business.

After less than a year, Denise Wypiszenski has stepped down from her job as chief operating officer at Robert W. Baird's private wealth management group.

In its first-annual ranking of “The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking,” U.S. Banker pays tribute to the executives whose contributions to their institutions and their communities are most profound. With varying management styles and ways of generating increased shareholder value, brand equity and bottom-line performance, these 25 women personify power, business savvy and creative intelligence.