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Citigroup has set measurable goals for increasing representation of women and U.S. minorities in senior, higher-paying roles and CEO Michael Corbat is urging other financial firms to follow suit.

Zions Bancorp. is taking a different approach to its diversity efforts by moving ownership for initiatives out to its field offices.

Ellen Patterson, the general counsel at TD Bank Group, has spearheaded a program across the Toronto company's footprint that aims to reinforce the idea that men need to be a big part of any organization's diversity and inclusion efforts.

Leaders Meet Directors is a new program at BMO Financial that is intended to raise the profiles of managers with executive potential. Two-thirds of the inagural participants were women.

The Pennsylvania community bank has seen rapid growth in recent years, thanks in large part to its success in attracting women clients.

Paulette Mullings Bradnock is on a mission to bring more diversity to BNY Mellon's workforce, and she is leading by example.

It was the only large bank to publicly disclose the unadjusted pay gap between men and women, and now it's committing to narrowing the gap by moving more women into higher-paying leadership roles.

As many women at U.S. Bancorp can attest, mentoring relationships don't have to be all that formal to be successful.

How do you keep the all-male CEO club at the biggest banks intact? Let us count the ways. Could a woman be the next CEO at UBS? Maybe. At Wells Fargo? Less likely.