The Latest from Women in Banking

'Lady, you got a lot going on,' a customs agent recently told American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Finance, upon learning she was an American banker working from JPMorgan Chase.

More than 600 supporters were on hand to honor the 75 executives on American Banker's lists of the top women in banking and finance. The gala dinner, held Thursday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, was preceded by a wine tasting the previous evening at the New Museum, where honorees with their guests toasted their achievements.

Accepting her award as the "most powerful woman in banking" at American Banker's annual awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria on Thursday, KeyCorp's Beth Mooney anticipated a time when female leaders in the industry are so commonplace that gender is merely an afterthought.

Raise your hand for assignments, find a strong team, call your mother. Advice to the next generation of women from the most powerful women in banking and finance.

Citigroup named Barbara Desoer chief operating officer of its banking subsidiary and said she will "deepen" a male-dominated management bench. Desoer, one of the industry's most prominent women, retired from Bank of America in 2012 after her duties were gradually diminished.

While American Banker is celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance tonight in New York City, the National Geographic Society will be opening a major, three-year traveling exhibition focused on female photojournalists in Washington, D.C.

The exhibit, showcasing the work of 11 photo-journalists, opens in Washington, DC, on Oct. 10 and will travel over the next three years to five other cities where PNC does business. Here is a sample.Related: PNC Partners with National Geographic on 'Women of Vision'

Janet Yellen shouldn't have needed anyone's help to be nominated to lead the Fed. Her tortuous path underscores the importance of rallying around qualified women candidates for industry leadership positions.

Karen Strauss Cook, a pioneering female equity trader at Goldman, Sachs & Co. who helped other working moms stay in finance and will be honored next month by the group 100 Women in Hedge Funds, has died. She was 61.

The San Francisco bank's CIO shares an update on an enterprise-wide customer analytics project and why CCAR is a "mixed blessing."