The Latest from Women in Banking

The ability to learn on the fly served Mary Callahan Erdoes well as she worked her way to the upper echelons of one of the world's largest banking companies.

Not following the pack has been one key to success for Cara Heiden, who co-heads Wells Fargo & Co.'s residential mortgage unit.

After eight years as the chief executive of NewAlliance Bancshares, Peyton Patterson is trying out a different role: political appointee.

The North American Global Transaction Services of Citigroup, under the direction of managing director Julie Monaco since 2007, spearheaded the review process of more than 529,000 claims — about 8,300 a day — involving $2.88 billion in rebates submitted over a two-month period.

Donna DeMaio has no trouble saying what she thinks. But a great lesson in leadership she learned just recently is that sharing opinions with her typical passion can have a downside.

When Treasury hosted a forum on the future of housing finance, it all but ignored mortgage lenders. The exception was Bank of America's Barbara Desoer.

Ellen Costello took a winding path to the top-through corporate banking, Treasury, securitization, credit investment management and merchant banking.

Ellen Alemany, Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group and RBS Americas, is grateful for one particularly tough boss.

When Jane Fraser took over at Citi Private Bank, its high-net-worth clients were reeling. But she refused to create comfort by returning to the familiarity of the status quo.

Linda Verba, head of TD Bank's retail operations, has been creating groundbreaking customer-service and employee-reward strategies for more than a decade.