The Latest from Women in Banking

Carla Brooks is often the only woman in the room. But she considers it her responsibility to help more women break into the male-dominated financial industry.

After Martina Hund-Mejean was hired in 2007, one of her many initiatives at MasterCard included starting up a job rotation program among the 700 people in her department.

Balancing risk and reward is what Suzanne Shank does in her business all the time. So when the financial crisis heightened both sides of that equation considerably, Shank didn't flinch.

When an ultra-high-net-worth family walks into the office of Maria Elena Lagomasino for the first time, she flashes a deck of cards containing what she calls the "Keeps Me Awake at Night" questions.

Countless leaders in the world of finance espouse the cause of financial literacy. But none has done more about it than Muriel Siebert.

With a recession and regulatory changes at home, Diane Offereins, Discover Financial Services' head of payments, looked overseas for opportunity.

There are more women than ever on boards of directors, but there's still a long way to go.

In the few interviews she grants, Fidelity Investments' Abigail Johnson is invariably discreet on the question of whether she wants to one day run the firm founded by her grandfather.

Irene Dorner might not be running the U.S. banking operations of HSBC Holdings today if it hadn't been for "an intervention" from a top corporate executive.