Investments

Hung is championing a new initiative at New York Life to help financial advisers better engage with female clients.

Seitz is using her influence as CEO of one of the world's leading money managers to call attention to the $70 trillion retirement gap that she said could grow to $400 billion by 2050 if her industry doesn't address it.

Nandita Bakhshi, CEO of Bank of the West, has pushed the bank's environmental commitments further, including $1 billion in clean energy financing over the next five years.

The leadership skills of Claudine Gallagher, the head of securities services for the Americas for BNP Paribas, have been tested to an unusual degree over the past 18 months.

The retirement and investment group Grace runs for Aon is the global firm's second-largest business unit, wit more than $150 billion of assets under management.

Harford was recently promoted to president of UBS Asset Management after a two-year stint as head of investments.

The wealth management and investment services group Kedia leads grew profits by nearly 25% last year and accounted for 13% of U.S. Bancorp's total revenues.

The research division Browning has built at Bank of America Merrill Lynch is consistently ranked among the best in the world.

Under Chang, J.P. Morgan has been named the world's top global research firm for two years running.

TouchBistro, an iPad-based restaurant order-and-payment system, has reaped $120 million in a new funding round led by Canadian pension fund Omers, with JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, BMO Capital Partners also participating.