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In 2017, Cundiff’s first full year as CEO, First State Bank of St. Charles earned a record $4.1 million, thanks primarily to strong loan growth, and the momentum has continued in 2018.

Diana Reid has made the advancement of women one of her top priorities at PNC — and has recruited men to support the cause.

Beth Johnson, who has risen over three decades to become chief marketing officer and head of virtual channels at Citizens Bank, has advanced by looking for opportunities rather than maintaining a fixed idea of where to go.

There are 10 new faces among the Women to Watch this year, but a familiar one is at the top of the list —Wells Fargo's Mary Mack. Check out who else earned a spot in the ranking.

Debbie Crowder heads SunTrust Banks’ most high-profile business line — its branch network — and she takes seriously the position she is in to improve the lives of both employees and the customers and communities they serve.

Offereins led to Discover's payments business to another year of strong growth while setting in motion a bold plan to disrupt the point-of-sale experience.

The way Charlotte McLaughlin sees it, grit is a little like exercise: You only get stronger with practice.

Cathy Bessant, Bank of America's chief operations and technology officer and American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking for 2018, keeps pushing herself, while testing the limits of what the industry can do.

MUFG Union Bank may not be the largest commercial lender in the western United States, but under the leadership of Bita Ardalan it is arguably among the most disruptive.

As companies grappled this year with the fallout from the #MeToo movement, Stacey Friedman led an initiative at JPMorgan Chase to make sure employees feel comfortable calling out misbehavior when they see it.

Citi FinTech, Citigroup's innovation lab, has on Piazza's watch continued to roll out groundbreaking technology.

Cary Grace is reinventing Aon's retirement business to stay two steps ahead of clients' ever-changing needs.

Over the past two and a half years, Ellen Alemany has made several big changes at CIT Group, selling off international business lines and turning the focus to traditional middle-market lending.

Can improv classes help women in tech advance to senior leadership? It's one tactic to attract and retain top female technologists at the nation's largest bank.

Among Sandy Pierce's accomplishments during the past year, the senior executive vice president and regional banking director merged the wealth units of Huntingdon and First Merit, rebranding the business as Huntington Private Bank.

HSBC’s Diane Reyes has spent much of the past year spreading this message to the roughly 10,000 employees she leads: Conduct counts.

When many of Synchrony's employees in Puerto Rico where unable to work after Hurricane Maria struck the island last year, CEO Margaret Keane made sure that their paychecks kept coming.

Thasunda Duckett, the CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, is leading the charge as JPMorgan Chase expands its retail bank.

Marie Chandoha’s greatest career advancements have all come after she took big risks.

Even with more than 30 years of experience in banking, Julie Monaco still finds value in the advice a mentor passed on to her as a young, rising executive.