Wealth management

Fee income also surged as the San Francisco bank reached the $100 billion mark in wealth management assets.

John Flint, HSBC's current retail chief, will take the helm next February; asset manager BlackRock has added $1 trillion of assets in the past year, or more than $1.5 billion every business day.

For people well-schooled in the relationship between supply and demand, here's one Fidelity Investments may not have seen coming: The demand for female financial advisers outstrips the supply.

Synovus is widely regarded as one of the industry’s most admired companies, and it is up to Liz Wolverton to ensure that it does not rest on its laurels.

B of A's Anne Clarke Wolff says attrition continues to thwart efforts to improve gender equality in the banking industry's top ranks.

Tracey Brophy Warson runs the largest segment of one of the world’s largest private banking operations, overseeing offices across the continent that manage $191 billion in assets.

Across asset management, investment banking, capital markets and cards, these finance executives stand out for their performance and for helping to create a path to parity for women in sectors that tend to be even more male-dominated than the banking industry.

Amid continuing predictions about the demise of conventional money management, Fidelity's Abigail Johnson is making adjustments to keep the business thriving and prove the doomsayers wrong.