The Latest from Women in Banking

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., will take the gavel on the Financial Services Committee next term.

Former McKinsey & Company associate partner Liz Oakes has been named Mastercard's executive vice president of market development for the New Payments Platforms division.

Maria Vullo is stepping down as head of New York's banking and insurance regulator after three years in which she created a national model for cybersecurity regulations at banks and fought back against federal attempts to chip away at payday-lending rules.

The current deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pam Patenaude, will step down in January.

Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., will join the panel as their caucus loses two other committee members who suffered election defeats.

The California congresswoman would be the first woman and first African-American to lead the committee.

Nadine Murray, who had worked for JPMorgan Chase's consumer bank, will guide strategy for Even Financial. It creates APIs that are meant to make its services the digital version of branches and agents.

Several banks are seeing significant changes in leadership as the year comes to a close.

The former head of Heritage Oaks Bancorp says she relishes a chance to reinvent Luther Burbank, a thrift that wants to make more commercial loans — a shift she has deftly orchestrated before.

Men on Wall Street take a cue from Vice President Mike Pence in refusing to dine one-on-one with women; Coinbase adds fertility benefits; and the CFPB has a new leader. Plus, Bank of America's Katy Knox gets promoted.