The Most Powerful Women in Banking 2023

At TD Bank, the consumer deposits, products, and payments (CDPP) team is in charge of every aspect of the bank's deposit products.

Since her promotion to chief executive officer of $2.4 trillion-asset Citigroup in March 2021, Fraser has taken several decisive steps to simplify and modernize the sprawling megabank.

Lake, along with her co-CEO Jennifer Piepszak, lead all of consumer and community banking, which serves nearly 80 million consumers and 6 million small businesses across the U.S.

Piepszak is jointly in charge of one the bank's most wide-reaching segments: consumer and community banking.

O'Neill has worked at BofA since 1996, starting as a credit analyst in its corporate and investment bank. She took the reins of the bank's retail banking unit in 2021.

Stewart's division has invested in new bankers for the long term, growing its banker head count by 40% since 2015. Since June 2023, its new client count has grown by 91%, and revenue is up 20.4%. 

Friedman attributes much of her success to her innate curiosity, and an ability to find small details interesting. 

In 2022, Ally achieved its 14th consecutive year of growth in retail deposit customers, reaching  $137.7 billion in deposits from 2.7 million retail depositors.

In the five years since Coffey was named CEO of Los Angeles-based City National Bank, the bank's assets have doubled to $95 billion, from $50 billion in 2019.

Since the fall of 2022, Danella has introduced several new technology tools for Regions customers. Last September, the bank added a new feature to its mobile app that enables users to access and manage their debit, credit, ATM and other cards all in one place.

As generative AI and foundational models, the technology behind ChatGPT, rapidly evolve, Beer has piloted a path for the bank to execute its long-term strategy and support developing advances in data and analytics capabilities. 

Last year, Brady began to directly oversee KeyBank's chief administrative office, which handles communications, company events and the bank's diversity, equity and inclusion program.

When BMO closed its long-planned acquisition of Bank of the West from BNP Paribas this year, Johannson was tapped to lead the integration of the two banks.

As Head of Citi's Legacy Franchises Group, Cole has brokered agreements to sell the bank's retail divisions in Australia, Bahrain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Guild, the head of enterprise technology and security for PNC Financial Services Group, leads a team of 3,500 who are charged with protecting customers' and clients' data.

Novosel, who leads PNC Financial Services's commercial bank, spent a lot more time talking to clients about PNC's financial footing when the banking crisis hit this spring. 

Last year, Johnson took on another major role as head of the bank's environmental, social and governance initiatives (ESG).

Smith led a team of more than 2,300 employees to execute one of the most ambitious digital makeover projects in the finance space last year.

A staunch advocate for community banks, Castilla was appointed to the Federal Reserve's Federal Advisory Council last year for the Kansas City District, which includes Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and parts of Missouri and New Mexico.

As the head of BNP Paribas' Latin American operations, the bank's corporate and institutional banking franchise had a remarkable year in Latin America in 2022, solidifying its position as a key player in the region.