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Anne Clarke Wolff, Bank of America's head of global corporate banking and global leasing, is finding new ways to serve customers, including launching an initiative to provide corporate customers with benefits for their employees.

Stephanie Cohen of Goldman Sachs and Gunjan Kedia of U.S. Bancorp are making their debut among the Most Powerful Women in Finance this year. Check out the full list to see all of the women and where they rank.

As head of Bank of America's environmental, social and governance initiatives, Anne Finucane has been on the cutting edge of several hot button topics this year, including whether the bank would continue to bank certain gun manufacturers in the wake of mass shootings.

As the chief auditor at Citigroup, McNiff leads the industry's largest auditing staff, with more than 1,800 employees scattered across dozens of countries where Citi does business.

Avid Modjtabai is drawing on a quarter-century of experience leading a broad range of business lines to accelerate innovation at Wells Fargo.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In her nearly six years as chief financial officer, Marianne Lake has emerged as the public voice of JPMorgan Chase, fielding questions from investors and reporters in a rapid-fire style that makes her sound unflappable. Nowhere was that more on display than earlier this year.

American Banker announced its 16th annual ranking of the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance.

Smith’s willingness to take risks — and tough roles — has been a defining trait of her more than three-decade tenure at Bank of America.

Strong leadership requires not only having the best data available — it also involves “connecting the dots,” according to Barbara Desoer, CEO of Citibank.

Innovative. Influential. Impactful. The 25 female leaders in this ranking are skillfully navigating industry disruption and — in many ways — driving it as well.

A string of natural disasters in Mexico and the Carribean offered a rare test of leadership for Jane Fraser, Citigroup's top executive in the region, but she faced it head-on.

Few bankers can claim to have created a new financial market. But JPMorgan Chase Chief Regulatory Officer Sandie O’Connor can.

Wells Fargo is investigating employees in its investment bank for alleged violations of its expense policy after they tried to get the company to pay for ineligible evening meals.

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are among foreign lenders protesting a Russian central bank plan that would drastically reduce their ability to move funds from local units to their parent companies outside of Russia.