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After earning her engineering degree at MIT, Wall Street beckoned Jessica Payne, who was recruited into Citi's analyst class. Three years later, rather than use the MBA she earned at Harvard Business School to go in another direction, she eagerly returned to investment banking.

With 16 years at the company, Niemczyk is an Ally lifer. She is currently a senior director of invest and deposits business operations and analytics at the bank.

Melhaoui leads a team of 11 and is responsible for overseeing the bank's liquidity and interest rate risk for the U.S, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.

Jagadish leads strategy and execution of digital and mobile capabilities for all customer-facing digital platforms for TD Bank in the U.S., as well as commercial bank products and services.

Flanders started her banking career at First Horizon as an intern. She worked in the bank's treasury division for eight years and is now its investor relations officer.

Arrington, who has an MBA and a law degree with a concentration in financial transactions, is the chief risk officer for the $753 million-asset bank.

Dupuis started in banking as a high schooler. She is now the retail banking director at $16.4 billion-asset First United.

Deckelman is a managing director running the global front-end financing and short-term interest rate desk, known as STIR. She oversees 34 people with responsibility for sales around the world. 

After a dozen years with the bank, Davis is now a managing director and senior relationship manager within PNC Bank's energy group, which ranks among the top revenue-generating businesses for the bank.

Comfort began as a teller at Nevada State Bank, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorp. She's been promoted several times since then and is currently NSB's small business manager.

Chuck is the director of commercial deposits, revenue and liquidity at Comerica in Dallas. Overall, she is responsible for the product team, commercialization for liquidity and revenue strategy.

Bartlett joined BMO in 2007 as an analyst working with large diversified companies, and has stayed at the bank since in its Chicago office, now also supervising bankers in Toronto and New York. 

As a senator, the likely Democratic nominee for President championed an agency that did early work on payment technology, setting the stage for a central bank digital currency.

Despite being a top concern for a wide swath of voters, housing affordability has largely been absent from presidential politics.

After 40 years in finance, Harford is now learning to play golf and mahjong, and spending more time with family and friends.

Vice President Kamala Harris has kept a low profile in banking policy, and there is a reasonable expectation that her administration would pick up where Biden left off. But if she wanted to, Harris could reset Democrats' financial policy agenda.

Vice President Harris' surprise elevation to the top of the Democratic ticket and the ascent of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance to be the Republican vice presidential pick brings renewed vigor to each party's economic vision.

Following Sunday's news of President Biden's decision not to seek reelection, see how the past two administrations handled banking reforms and what the future might hold.

In this edition of American Banker's news quiz, test yourself on the latest items covering FedNow's progress since launch, the merger between Capital One Financial and Discover Financial Services and more.