The Latest from Women in Banking

It was a strong first full year for Kristy Fercho, who was named head of Wells Fargo home lending in July 2020, landing her the top spot on the Most Powerful Woman to Watch list.

Michal Katz, head of investment and corporate banking at Mizuho Americas, helped orchestrate two of the largest acquisitions of early 2022.

JPMorgan's global mergers and acquisitions practice hammered out 637 deals in 2021, and the nearly 250 M&A professionals that Anu Aiyengar supervises racked up $4.1 billion in fees last year.

Looking back on her 44 years in finance, Christina Mohr, vice chair of global M&A at Citi, is pleased by the ways the industry has changed for women investment bankers.

Discovery Federal Credit Union in Wyomissing has promoted its chief information officer, Michele Smith, to succeed Edwin Williams as CEO. Smith assumed her new role effective October 1.

Yie-Hsin Hung will join State Street Global Advisors in December, succeeding Cyrus Taraporevala, who has been CEO since 2016. The hiring comes as the Boston-based custody bank continues to await regulatory approval for its acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman's investor services division.

Europe's biggest banks are falling behind on their promises to promote more women, at least when measured by the very top jobs. 

After naming a new CEO in March, the San Francisco bank has filled the second of two leadership voids created by executive resignations at the start of the year.

Dermot McDonogh will be the custody bank's chief financial officer, as incoming CEO Robin Vince starts making his mark. The two each spent more than two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Hafize Gaye Erkan, whose surprise departure from First Republic Bank disrupted the lender’s succession plans earlier this year, will become chief executive officer of Greystone as the closely held commercial-property lender expands into wealth management and private banking.