Commercial banking

Bank Novo isn't a business lender (lots of firms already do that) or an account provider (it has a bank partner for that). Instead, it provides small businesses tools to track and analyze their banking activities.

There’s an opportunity for global banks willing to break down the internal silos that stifle good ideas.

Barbara Byrne, a lifetime achievement award winner, says the pace of adding diversity to C-suites must increase quickly.

For her trailblazing career on Wall Street, Byrne will be honored on Thursday at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking gala in New York.

When Stephanie Cohen earned the chief strategy officer’s job at Goldman Sachs in January, she was told she had a blank sheet of paper. Cohen responded by, among other things, launching an internal incubator for new business ideas.

Spilkin's education in math and programming, uncommon in investment banking, has allowed her to bring a disruptive approach to problem-solving at Goldman Sachs.

At Beth Johnson's insistence, the bank built an analytics platform that can anticipate customers' needs. It's an investment that is paying off in big ways.

A new Goldman Sachs initiative called "Launch with GS" aims to make venture capital and private equity investments in startups founded by women, says Stephanie Cohen, the company's chief strategy officer.

In our "On Life" series of videos, top banking executives like Goldman Sachs' chief strategy officer, Stephanie Cohen, answer three quick questions about themselves.

The mass retirement of baby boomers and the growing affluence of women are the biggest disruptive forces in the industry, says Gunjan Kedia. Here's how she's dealing with them.